History
In 1998, the Georgia State Senate passed a resolution to designate the portion of Interstate 95 between the Ogeechee River (Bryan County, Georgia-Chatham County, Georgia border) north to the Savannah River (Effingham County, Georgia-Jasper County, South Carolina border) in the Greater Savannah Area as the Tom P. Coleman Highway, in honor of Tom Coleman, a Democrat who served as State Senator from 1981 to 1995.
Until 2000, the state of Georgia used the sequential interchange numbering system on all of its Interstate Highways. The first exit on each highway would begin with the number "1" and increase numerically with each exit. In 2000, the Georgia Department of Transportation switched to a mileage-based exit system, in which the exit number corresponded to the nearest milepost.
Construction to widen I-95 from two to three lanes started with the Chatham County segment in 1993, with the other county segments done in phases, with the project completed throughout Georgia on December 10, 2010.
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