Twin Cities Area, official Minnesota Highway Map of 1926

Twin Cities, 1926. The Constitutional Route trunk highway numbers are shown in circles along the dark-outlined streets. These were actually not trunk highways inside the core cities before 1934, but were marked along Minneapolis and St. Paul city streets for continuity. There are a lot of differences between these trunk highway routings and the later or current ones. Some interesting historical notes:
1. Lyndale Avenue is marked as T.H. 5, but actually was the extension of T.H. 50. T.H. 5 (later U.S. 169) was not long thereafter rerouted along Flying Cloud Drive and entered Minneapolis along Excelsior Blvd. Also note the north end of T.H. 5 (later MN-65), which is routed along Lyndale Avenue north of downtown to the Camden Bridge, then north along East River Road. The current route is Central Avenue.
2. T.H. 12 (which later became MN-7) currently runs along Excelsior Blvd. In the mid-1930s, the new Highway 7 was constructed along its present route.
3. T.H. 63 (which by 1927 was the route of U.S. 8) runs east from Downtown Minneapolis along Hennepin, Larpenteur, and Crosley (later County Road B), then exits the city via Centerville Road toward T.H. 1. This route was re-routed a couple of years later along New Brighton Blvd. and Lake Drive.

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