Indiana State Road 930 - History

History

See also: U.S. Route 30 in Indiana

In 1913, the Lincoln Highway was planned to pass through some of the areas that later became SR 930. These sections are SR 930 that is concurrent with Goshen Road in Fort Wayne and the section of SR 930 between Maumee Road and Lincoln Highway in New Haven. The Lincoln Highway was opened in 1915 and passed through downtown Fort Wayne and New Haven. In 1917, Main Market route number 2 was the given number to the Lincoln Highway in Indiana. In 1926, US 30 was commission to follow SR 2 through Fort Wayne and New Haven. Also in this year US 24 was concurrent with US 30 from Washington Boulevard, in Fort Wayne and Lincoln Highway, in New Haven.

In 1950 the route, that is concurrent with Coliseum Boulevard, was built as US 24 and US 30 to bypass the downtown area of Fort Wayne. Then in 1998 US 24 and US 30 rerouted onto I–69 and I–469 and the route that became SR 930 was to be decommission. INDOT tried to give the route to local control, but Allen County, the city of Fort Wayne, and the City of New Haven did not have funds for the roadway. That is when INDOT commissioned the route as SR 930.

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