West Virginia Route 480: Difference between revisions

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|terminus_b={{jct|state=MD|MD|34}} in [[Shepherdstown, West Virginia|Shepherdstown]]

[[File:20162019-0905-2716 1012 5429 0337 View north along West Virginia State Route 480 (KearneysvilleDuke PikeStreet) atjust Stubbsnorth Roadof West Virginia State Route 45 (JeffersonMartinsburg CountyParkway) and West Virginia State Route 48-3230 (German Street) in KearneysvilleShepherdstown, Jefferson County, West Virginia.jpg|thumb|right|View north along WV 480 at CRWV 4845/3WV 230 in KearneysvilleShepherdstown]]

In its original 1922 state route system, the West Virginia State Road Commission established WV 48 along the Smithfield and Shepherdstown Road from WV 49 (later WV 9, now WV 115) at Kearneysville through Shepherdstown to the Potomac River.<ref name="1922 map"/><ref name="USGS Martinsburg 1914"/> WV 48's routing was the same as modern WV 480 from Kearneysville to Shepherdstown; within the town, the route followed Duke Street, German Street, and Princess Street to the river, which the highway crossed on a bridge downstream from the current bridge.<ref name="USGS Martinsburg 1914"/> The road commission developed plans to improve WV 48 into an all-weather highway starting in 1922.<ref name="1941 report"/> The Shepherdstown routing was paved as {{convert|18|ft|m|adj=mid|-wide}} concrete streets in 1924 and 1925, and the road from the town south to Kearneysville was constructed as a {{convert|16|ft|m|adj=mid|-wide}} bituminous [[macadam]] road in 1925.<ref name="1941 report"/><ref name="1938 report"/> The road commission and the [[Baltimore &and Ohio Railroad]] started planning for the highway's railroad grade separation at Kearneysville in 1929. The railroad constructed its overpass of the highway and the road commission paved the underpass and its approaches as a {{convert|20|ft|m|adj=mid|-wide}} concrete road in 1931.<ref name="1941 report"/>

The West Virginia State Road Commission surveyed the approach road for a new Potomac River bridge in 1933; the need for the new bridge became acute after the privately owned toll bridge was destroyed in a [[Pittsburgh flood of 1936|March 1936 flood]].<ref name="1941 report"/><ref name="1938 report"/> The [[Maryland State Roads Commission]] constructed a high-level [[Wichert continuous truss]] bridge at the site of the present bridge starting in 1937.<ref name="1938 report"/><ref name="1938 MD report"/> The new bridge, which had a {{convert|24|ft|m|adj=mid|-wide}} concrete road surface, opened July 15, 1939, and was dedicated to [[James Rumsey]], an 18th-century pioneer of the steamboat, who demonstrated his invention on the Potomac River at Shepherdstown in 1787.<ref name="1941 report"/><ref name="HMDB James Rumsey Bridge"/> Also in 1939, the West Virginia State Road Commission extended WV 48 north from German Street along Duke Street and a northern extension of the street to the new bridge as a {{convert|20|ft|m|adj=mid|-wide}} [[bituminous concrete]] road.<ref name="1941 report"/><ref name="USGS Shepherdstown 1944"/> The following year, the road commission widened the portion of WV 48 between the Kearneysville concrete section and the town of Shepherdstown to {{convert|20|ft|m}} and resurfaced the highway with bituminous concrete.<ref name="1941 report"/> The state renumbered WV 48 as WV 480 between 1975 and 1977 after US 48 was assigned to the f[[Morgantown, West Virginia|Morgantown]]–[[Cumberland, Maryland|Cumberland]] freeway that later became part of [[Interstate 68]].<ref name="MD 1975 map"/><ref name="MD 1977 map"/><ref name="MD 1993 map"/> The [[West Virginia Department of Transportation]] started construction to replace the 1939 James Rumsey Bridge with a [[steel girder]] span immediately to the north of the old bridge in June 2003.<ref name="Rumsey Bridge Girders"/> The new James Rumsey Bridge opened July 15, 2005, exactly 66 years after the opening of the previous bridge, which was subsequently torn down.<ref name="Rumsey Bridge Girders"/><ref name="New Rumsey Bridge Opens"/>

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<ref name="Milepoint Map">{{cite map|author=Planning Division|url=https://gis.transportation.wv.gov/ftp/MilepointMaps/JEFFERSON.pdf|title=Milepoint Map of Jefferson County, West Virginia|date=April 2018|publisher=[[West Virginia Department of Transportation]]|location=Charleston, WV|format=PDF|accessdateaccess-date=August 12, 2018}}</ref>

<ref name="County Map">{{cite map|author=Planning Division|url=https://gis.transportation.wv.gov/GISCountyMaps/PDF-WhiteBackground/JeffersonSheet%201WB.pdf|title=General Highway Map of Jefferson County, West Virginia|date=March 2018|publisher=West Virginia Department of Transportation|location=Charleston, WV|format=PDF|accessdateaccess-date=August 12, 2018}}</ref>

<ref name="Google Maps WV 480">{{google maps|url=https://goowww.glgoogle.com/maps/33Ayhs2W7852dir/39.3877787,-77.8857038/39.4361504,-77.8026613/@39.4120187,-77.8792313,9070m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!4m1!3e0?hl=en|title=West Virginia Route 480|accessdateaccess-date=August 12, 2018}}</ref>

<ref name="Geometry & Measures">{{cite map|author=Geospatial Transportation Information Section|url=https://gis.transportation.wv.gov/measures/|title=Geometry & Measures Web Application|publisher=West Virginia Department of Transportation|location=Charleston, WV|date=n.d.|accessdateaccess-date=August 12, 2018|at=Longitude: -77.820440; Latitude: 39.423275}}</ref>

<ref name="1922 map">{{cite map|author=Staff|url=https://westvirginiaarchiveshistory.zenfolio.com/p974981478/e864306f5|title=Map of West Virginia Showing State Routes|publisher=West Virginia State Road Commission|location=Charleston, WV|date=1922|accessdateaccess-date=August 14, 2018|via=West Virginia State Archives}}</ref>

<ref name="USGS Martinsburg 1914">{{cite map|publisher=[[United States Geological Survey]]|title=Martinsburg, WV quadrangle|edition=1914|scale=1:48,000|series=15 Minute Series (Topographic)|url=https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/Browse/WV/WV_Martinsburg_253256_1914_48000.jpg|accessdateaccess-date=August 14, 2018}}</ref>

<ref name="1941 report">{{Cite book|author=Division of Public Relations|title=Annual Report of the State Road Commission of West Virginia|edition=1940–1941|pages=270, 519|location=Charleston, WV|page=|publisher=West Virginia State Road Commission|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021028363|date=December 1, 1941|viahdl=Hathi Trust|accessdate=August 14, 20182027/mdp.39015021028363}}</ref>

<ref name="1938 report">{{Cite book|author=Division of Public Relations|title=Annual Report of the State Road Commission of West Virginia|edition=1937–1938|pages=27, 300|location=Charleston, WV|page=|publisher=West Virginia State Road Commission|url=https://hdl.handle.net/2027/mdp.39015021028355|date=December 1, 1938|viahdl=Hathi Trust|accessdate=August 14, 20182027/mdp.39015021028355}}</ref>

<ref name="1938 MD report">{{Maryland SRC report|year=1938|page=77|link=yes|accessdateaccess-date=August 14, 2018}}</ref>

<ref name="HMDB James Rumsey Bridge">{{Cite web|last=Swain|first=Craig|title=The James Rumsey Bridge Marker|work=The Historical Marker Database|publisher=J.J. Prats|location=Springfield, VA|date=August 8, 2007|url=http://www.hmdb.org/marker.asp?marker=2019|accessdateaccess-date=August 14, 2018}}</ref>

<ref name="USGS Shepherdstown 1944">{{cite map|publisher=United States Geological Survey|title=Shepherdstown, WV quadrangle|edition=1944|scale=1:31,680|series=7.5 Minute Series (Topographic)|url=https://ngmdb.usgs.gov/img4/ht_icons/Browse/WV/WV_Shepherdstown_253190_1944_31680.jpg|accessdateaccess-date=August 14, 2018}}</ref>

<ref name="Rumsey Bridge Girders">{{Cite news|last=Williams|first=Wanda T.|title=Girders giving Rumsey bridge a new look|newspaper=[[The Herald-Mail]]|location=Hagerstown, MD|page=|publisher=The Herald-Mail Company|url=http://articles.herald-mail.com/2004-08-13/news/25021832_1_new-bridge-girders-bridge-deck|date=August 13, 2004|accessdateaccess-date=August 14, 2018}}</ref>

<ref name="New Rumsey Bridge Opens">{{Cite news|last=Bosely|first=Candice|title=New James Rumsey Bridge opens to vehicles, pedestrians|newspaper=The Herald-Mail|location=Hagerstown, MD|page=|publisher=The Herald-Mail Company|url=http://articles.herald-mail.com/2005-07-16/news/25043492_1_sturdy-bridge-towpath-district-engineer|date=July 16, 2005|accessdateaccess-date=August 14, 2018}}</ref>

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