The Henry G. Shirley Memorial Highway consists of a 17.3-mile (27.8 km) portion of Interstates 95 and 395 in the U.S. state of Virginia. Shirley Highway was the first limited-access freeway in Virginia. Begun in 1941, the road was completed from Woodbridge, Virginia, to the 14th Street Bridge over the Potomac River between Virginia and Washington, D.C., in 1952.
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