History
Route 10 originally followed a different route south of Granby, Connecticut, starting in the town of Old Saybrook instead of at its current New Haven terminus. It moved to its current alignment along the Connecticut section of the College Highway in 1932, with the former alignment becoming the original Route 9. The original routing is now Routes 154, 99, and 189.
New England Route 10 also originally ended in Littleton, New Hampshire (at Route 18) but was subsequently truncated to end at its current northern terminus in Woodsville. The rest of the route has had only very minor changes and basically still follows its successor highways in the three states.
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