History
The present day Highway 110 was marked in 1965. Previously, this same route was known as part of Highway 100 from 1934 to 1965.
This route was originally part of the Highway 100 Beltway circling the entire Twin Cities during the 1940s and 1950s. It was paved before 1940 and constructed as a divided highway by 1953.
Highway 110 was numbered as a derivative of Highway 100 in 1965.
Before completion of the I-494 freeway in 1985, I-494 had a missing link during the previous twenty years. Highway 110 had carried all I-494 traffic from its beginning at State Highway 55 in Mendota Heights, to the then completed portion of I-494 beginning again at Babcock Trail in Inver Grove Heights. There was a traffic signal at this junction (where Highways 3, 52, 110, and 494 all intersected) for many years following completion of the nearby Lafayette Freeway (then marked Highway 3, now U.S. 52). An interchange has since been constructed replacing this traffic signal.
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