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U.S. Route 113

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The result was: scheduled for Wikipedia:Today's featured article/May 24, 2017 by Jimfbleak - talk to me? 15:16, 1 May 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Southern terminus of US 113

U.S. Route 113 (US 113) is a U.S. Highway that extends 75 miles (121 km) from US 13 in Pocomoke City, Maryland, north to Delaware Route 1 in Milford, Delaware. The highway, which until 2003 reconnected with US 13 in Dover, Delaware, serves the Maryland towns of Snow Hill and Berlin and the Delaware towns of Selbyville, Millsboro, and Georgetown. The route was improved as an all-weather road in the 1910s. The Delaware portion of the route, including the former designation from Milford to Dover, was built as the DuPont Highway, the first sections of which were completed May 24, 1917. US 113 was widened and reconstructed in the 1930s and 1940s, including a bypass of Dover. The route was expanded to a divided highway starting in the 1950s. The remaining two-lane section in Maryland will be eliminated by the early 2020s. Delaware has long-term plans to upgrade its portion of US 113 to a freeway. (Full article...)