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Blue Star Memorial Highway marker on Interstate 81 northbound near New Market, Virginia. Blue Star Memorial Highways are highways in the United States that are marked to pay tribute to the U.S. armed forces. The National Council of State Garden Clubs, now known as National Garden Clubs, Inc., started the program in 1945 after World War II.
US 301 is a Blue Star Memorial Highway for its entire length in Maryland. The Federated Garden Clubs of Maryland declared the U.S. Highway a Blue Star Memorial Highway as a tribute to the United States Armed Forces in 1948, and a 1953 resolution signed by Governor William Preston Lane, Jr., officially dedicated US 301 as such. [2]
The route is a nominally east–west highway, and less commonly known as the Blue Star Memorial Highway. An eastward continuation of Interstate 495, Route 25 provides freeway access to Cape Cod. The route's western terminus is at a trumpet interchange with I-495 and I-195 in West Wareham.
The John Hanson Highway is a freeway that travels roughly due east-west and carries both U.S. 50 and U.S. 301 into and through Annapolis, where the name changes to Blue Star Memorial Highway. The freeway continues onto Maryland's Eastern Shore via the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, passing across Kent Island. At the end of the freeway, the two routes ...
Route map Interstate 94. Blue Star Memorial Highway ... Blue Star Memorial Highway Purple Heart Trail: I-94 highlighted in red. Route information; Maintained by MnDOT:
The freeway bears several names in addition to the I-40 designation. Throughout the state, the freeway is known as the Blue Star Memorial Highway, a name shared with multiple Interstates across the state. [37] From the Guilford–Alamance county line to one mile (1.6 km) east of NC 54, in Graham, I-40/I-85 is known as the Sam Hunt Freeway. [38]
Route map Illinois Route 43. IL 43 highlighted in red ... In Deerfield, IL 43 is designated a Blue Star Memorial Highway. [7] Major intersections. County Location
US 50 east / US 301 north (Blue Star Memorial Highway) – Easton: 7.72: 12.42: Piney Narrows Road north to US 50 west / US 301 south – Bay Bridge: Kent Narrows: 7.97: 12.83: Old Kent Narrows Bridge: Grasonville: 9.45: 15.21: US 50 east / US 301 north (Blue Star Memorial Highway) – Easton: Unsigned MD 18F: 10.00: 16.09