History
Most of present SR 71, from State Route 11 (now U.S. Route 58 Alternate) at Parsonage southwest to about five miles (8 km) from Gate City, was added to the state highway system in 1928 as State Route 107; the final five miles (8 km) were added the next year. In the 1933 renumbering, SR 107 was renumbered State Route 71 and extended east from Parsonage along former SR 11 (renumbered State Route 64 then) to Dickensonville, replacing the former State Route 110 from there to U.S. Route 19 at Hansonville. As part of the 1940 renumbering, which coordinated numbers with adjacent states, SR 64 and SR 71 were swapped east of Dickensonville, giving SR 71 its present terminus at Lebanon.
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