Portal:U.S. roads/Did you know/October 2009

Southbound New Jersey Route 55 approaching the exit for Deptford Center Road, exit 58

• ... that much of the current alignment of Maryland Route 413 follows a former Pennsylvania Railroad line into Crisfield?
• ... that bad fate fell upon many construction workers during the construction of New Jersey Route 55 (pictured), fueling a belief that the highway was cursed as a result of building over Indian burial grounds in Deptford Township?
• ... that one of the landmarks along Interstate 84 in Utah is the 1000 mile tree, planted by Union Pacific Railroad workers to celebrate the first transcontinental railroad reaching 1,000 miles (1,600 km) from its origin in Omaha, Nebraska?
• ... that New Jersey Route 47 received the name "Delsea Drive" by the New Jersey Legislature in 1933 after a reporter for the Woodbury Times joked how the road connected the Delaware River with the Atlantic Ocean (the sea)?