Minnesota 1934: Showing some of the original 1934 numbering plan. 

A most unusual map, part of the U.S. map on the back of a 1934 Gousha Alabama map. I believe this was a "first draft" of renumbering Minnesota roads. This map has U.S. 55 still in place, but U.S. 218 running northwest from St. Paul and replacing U.S. 10N. U.S. 10S is replaced by U.S. 10. U.S. 65 has been re-routed to Minneapolis instead of St. Paul (from this I infer that U.S. 55 would have followed Robert St. into St. Paul as 52 did until recently). But most unusual is what is shown happening to U.S. 210. I hope the resolution is good enough to see that it is marked on this map as U.S. 208! Not a logical numbering, since non-systematic U.S. route numbering was not practiced at this time, but maybe proposed because U.S. 210 would have no longer intersected its parent route. The 1934 Minnesota highway map keeps 210 as it is, since U.S. 10 ended up taking the northern branch.

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