Rome
As US 27 approaches Rome, the current route meets with Cave Spring Road (via Walker Mountain Road), which then runs parallel to and north along with US 27 to just south of the Etowah River in Rome. On 1966 Georgia highway maps, US 27 was concurrent with Cave Spring Road to the current terminus of Cave Spring Road at East 12th Street. US 27 then curved northwest, then north, on what is today called East Main Street, and became concurrent with what is currently called East Broad Street, to East 2nd Avenue, which it was concurrent on its way northwest to its intersection with SR 20, north of which it picks up its present path north out of Rome. Starting in 1967, the current route is shown as being under construction, and by 1969 the current route was in operation.
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Famous quotes containing the word rome:
“I am ashamed to see what a shallow village tale our so-called History is. How many times must we say Rome, and Paris, and Constantinople! What does Rome know of rat and lizard? What are Olympiads and Consulates to these neighboring systems of being? Nay, what food or experience or succor have they for the Esquimaux seal-hunter, or the Kanaka in his canoe, for the fisherman, the stevedore, the porter?”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
“What? Rome dares not desire what you desire? How do you use your absolute power?”
—Pierre Corneille (1606–1684)
“Let Rome in Tiber melt and the wide arch
Of the ranged empire fall! Here is my space.
Kingdoms are clay; our dungy earth alike
Feeds beast as man. The nobleness of life
Is to do thus; when such a mutual pair
And such a twain can do ‘t, in which I bind,
On pain of punishment, the world to weet
We stand up peerless.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)