Delaware Route 1 (DE 1) is a 103.02-mile-long (165.79 km), four- to six-lane highway going from the Maryland–Delaware line on the eastern Atlantic shoreline to the Delaware Turnpike (Interstate 95) outside of Wilmington.
The highway, which came into existence in the late 1970s, was originally a two-lane road and signed as part of DE 14, but DE 14 was truncated to Milford when the Delaware Department of Transportation (DelDOT) adopted a U.S. Highway-style system for its state routes. From the early 1970s to 1995, the highway ended at is what is now U.S. Route 113 (US 113), but in the mid-1970s, the DOT studied a "Dover Extension" of the Delaware Turnpike, which evolved into today's Korean War Veterans Memorial Highway.
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