Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1920 — JASPER COUNTY STATE HIGHWAY [ARTICLE]

JASPER COUNTY STATE HIGHWAY

Route Is Officially Proclaimed North from Rensselaer. WAS TAKEN OVER ON APRIL 1 And Will Be Maintained by State —Other Routes Adopted That Are of Local Interest. Official confirmation of the adoption of the state highway through Jasper county* over .the route straight north from Rensselaer was made Monday in the Indianapolis papers in giving the routes of the various roads in detail, as adopted by the highway commission and approved by Governor Goodrich. The routes of local interest, or that connect up with our highways, as published in Monday’s papers follow: Route 6—Beginning at the corporation line of Versailles, Ripley county, running thence in a northwesterly dfrection through Greensburg, Shelbyville, Indianapolte, Lebanon, Frankfort, Delphi to Monticello, in White county. Route 7 —Beginning at the Illinois state line in Newton county, running thence in an easterly direction through Kentland, Monticello, Logansport, Peru and Wabash to Huntington in Huntington county. Route 8— Beginning at Remington, on Route 7, running thence in a r ortherly direction through Rensselaer to within about two miles of Hebron, thence west and north through Crown Point to Gary. Route 9 —Beginning at Veedersburg on the Dixie Bee line, running thence in a northerly direction through Attica, Wihiamsport, Boswell and Fowler, thence north, connecting with* Route 7 in Newtou county. Route 10 —Beginning at the north corporation line of Evansville, running thence in a northerly direction through Princeton, Vincennes, Sullivan, Terre Haute, Newport to the Dixie highway in Warren county. Route 29 —Beginning at a point on Route 8 in Benton county, running thence in an easterly direction through Oxford, Lafayette and Rossville to a point on Route 1 in Howard county. Route 49 —Beginning at Shererville, in Lake county, running thence jn a northerly direction to Hammond in Lake county. The route through Jasper county is precisely what our people have wanted all along and it could not. possibly have been any better to suit the citizens of Jasper and counties east and north of us as well as the general public. The only fly in the ointment is the elimination of the Montmorencf road from Lafayette to Wolcott, which will no doubt be taken ovex within the next few years, as it affects travel via Lafayette and is a part of the old Jackson highway over which practically all the In-dianapolis-Chicago travel has gone for the past few years. It has fewer turns and easier grades than the Frankfort - Delphi - Monticello route, which leaves the old Jackson highway at the former place and connects up again at Wolcott. However, if Tippecanoe and White counties build a county unit road north and south along the Monon railroad, through Battle Ground, Brookston, Chalmers and Reynolds, via Lafayette, travel can go over that route if it desires, or have a very good stone and gravel road via Montmorenci, as at present. In speaking of the official adoption of the system and publication of the official map, the Indianapolis Star says: Eighteen important changes in the tentative state highway system were made in the officially designated system as announced Saturday. Several roads that were to have been included in the system were eliminated- from the plans with the understanding that the commission will visit the sections and later determine the advisability of placing them in the system. The entire system of about 3,201 miles was approved by Governor Goodrich with the exception of the Vevay river road from Vevay to Madison. The governor declared that it was his intention to recommend to the general assembly that the section of the Lincoln highway in Allen and NoVie counties be eliminated from the system and that he approve the road from Kendallville to Ft. Wayne on the condition that Allen and Noble counties will not oppose the change in the Lincoln highway. In the tentative plans the commission included in the system the Mad.ison road from Madison to North

Vernon. Previously the commission considered including the Michigan road from Madison to Versailles. Delegations favoring one or the other of the routes appeared before the commission on several occasions. At the last minute both of the proposed routes were cut out. L. H. Wright, director of the commission, said that after further investigation, the commission will no doubt Include one of other roads out of Madison. Other Important changes in the system follow: The road runiflng north from Angola to the state llrfe was eliminated and the road running from that city to the Ohio line was included. The Martinsville to Plainfield road was eliminated and the Bluff road to Indianapolis from Martinsville was Included. > The road from Bloomington to Nashville was excluded from the system • Included in the system was the road from Bloomington to Spencer, thence through Greencastle and Crawfordsville to Lafayette. The Hartford City to Pennville road was taken out and the road running north from Hartford City was included. The road from Montmorenci to Wolcott was eliminated. The Yellowstone trail from Warsaw to Hebron was taken out of the system.' The road from Rockville to . Crawfordsville was replaced by the Inclusion of the road from Rockville to Veedersburg. Richmond and Liberty were connected with a state highway. The road from Alexandria to Muncie was not Included in the system. The road from Noblesville through Anderson to Muncie was designated. The commission had considered placing the road from Brookville through Rushville to Indianapolis In the system, but this was not done. The road from Kokomo east to five miles south of Marion, thence north to Marion and' to Montpelier was Included. The road from Hammond to Shererville was added to the system. The road from Michigan City to the state line on the north was added.