History
In the original 1926 plan, U.S. 190 served the purpose of modern-day Interstate 12, as the road around the north side of Lake Pontchartrain. The western terminus was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, meeting U.S. 71 at the Baton Rouge-Port Allen Mississippi River ferry. U.S. 190 followed State Route 7 (in the pre-1955 Louisiana Highway system) east to Covington, then State Route 34 from Covington to Slidell. The original eastern terminus in Slidell was at U.S. 90 (now U.S.11) at the modern intersection of Front Street and Gause Boulevard.
In 1935, the route was extended west across the Mississippi River, ending in the West Texas town of Brady at an intersection with U.S. 87.
U.S. 190 was assigned an additional 150 miles (240 km) across the sparsely-populated area south of San Angelo, Texas in 1979.
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