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Massachusetts Route 17
There have been two
state highways
designated
Route 17
in Massachusetts:
The first Route 17 extended from
Great Barrington
to the
New York state
line in
the 1930s, and was renumber as
Route 23
in
1939
.
The second Route 17 was a portion of U.S.
Route 1
in the
1950s
. This was due to the U.S.
Highway
being moved to a
freeway
from
Danvers
to
Salisbury
at
the New Hampshire
border. The former U.S. Route 1
segment
was designated as Route 17 to the
state line
and
NH 17
for a
short
distance
into
Seabrook, New Hampshire
. The freeway was later designated as
Interstate 95
, and Route 17 and NH 17 were restored to being U.S. Route 1.
The Route
17
designation
was in use by
June 1956
and out of use by
July 1959
.