Old Hammond Highway is the popular designation for the surviving portion of an unfinished highway between New Orleans and Hammond, Louisiana constructed during the 1920s and 1930s. The road currently extends from the intersection of Pontchartrain Boulevard and West Robert E. Lee Boulevard in New Orleans (Orleans Parish) to Chickasaw Avenue in Metairie (Jefferson Parish), a distance of 0.7 miles. The portion in Orleans Parish is signed as "NO-Hammond Hwy" while the portion in Jefferson Parish, which is also Louisiana Highway 613-1 (LA 613-1), is signed as "Metairie-Hammond Hwy." The route was superseded first by U.S. Highways 51 and 61 and later by Interstates 10 and 55.
Read more about Old Hammond Highway: History, Baton Rouge-Hammond Highway
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