History
What would become DE 2 was originally an unimproved county road by 1920. By 1924, the road was paved. The road became a state highway by 1931. When Delaware designated its state highways by 1936, DE 2 was designated to run from the Maryland border southwest of Newark to DE 52 in Wilmington, following Elkton Road, Main Street, Capitol Trail, New Road, and Union Street. By 1939, DE 2 was widened into a divided highway between Prices Corner and Elsmere. The divided highway portion of DE 2 was extended west from Prices Corner to DE 7 by 1942, bypassing the original alignment to the north. By 1957, a portion of DE 2 west of the DE 7 intersection was moved to a new alignment slightly further north. The divided highway was extended west to Red Mill Road by 1959. Also by this time, DE 2 was split into a one-way pair in Wilmington on Union Street and Lincoln Street. The road between Newark and Red Mill Road became a divided highway by 1964. The Christiana Parkway around the southern edge of Newark was completed by 1984. By 1990, DE 2 was realigned to bypass Newark on its current alignment, with the former route through Newark becoming DE 2 Bus.
Read more about this topic: Delaware Route 2
Famous quotes containing the word history:
“The basic idea which runs right through modern history and modern liberalism is that the public has got to be marginalized. The general public are viewed as no more than ignorant and meddlesome outsiders, a bewildered herd.”
—Noam Chomsky (b. 1928)
“The foregoing generations beheld God and nature face to face; we, through their eyes. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“The principle office of history I take to be this: to prevent virtuous actions from being forgotten, and that evil words and deeds should fear an infamous reputation with posterity.”
—Tacitus (c. 55–117)