page_title: U.S. Route 190
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: U.S. Route 190 / History
caption_attribution_description: Old sign for U.S. Route 190 in Louisiana, now in the "museum room" of H.J. Smith's General Store, Covington, Louisiana.
context_page_description: U.S. Route 190 is an east–west United States Highway in Louisiana and Texas. Segments of US 190 will be upgraded to Interstate 14; the first 24.8-mile segment was opened on January 26, 2017.
context_section_description: In the original 1926 plan, US 190 served the purpose of modern-day I-12, as the road around the north side of Lake Pontchartrain. The western terminus was in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, meeting US 71 at the Baton Rouge–Port Allen ferry across the Mississippi River. US 190 followed State Route 7 (SR 7, in the pre-1955 Louisiana Highway system) east to Covington, then SR 34 from Covington to Slidell. The original eastern terminus in Slidell was at US 90 (now US 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 US 87.
  US 190 was assigned an additional 150 miles (240 km) across the sparsely populated area south of San Angelo, Texas in 1977, replacing a section of RM 33 and all of FM 1257 and RM 1980.
caption: Old US 190 sign
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