page_title: U.S. Route 13 in Virginia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: U.S. Route 13 in Virginia / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Historical marker designating the former site of the Salem Methodist Church. This marker is located on the east side of U.S. Route 13 (Lankford Highway) just south of Cobbs Station Road in Northampton County, Virginia between mile markers 82 and 83 near Cheriton.
context_page_description: U.S. Route 13 is a north–south U.S. highway established in 1926 that runs for 517 miles from Interstate 95 just north of Fayetteville, North Carolina to U.S. Route 1 in Morrisville, Pennsylvania, a northeastern suburb of Philadelphia. In the U.S. state of Virginia, US 13 runs north–south through the Hampton Roads and Eastern Shore regions of the state, using the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel to get between the two. In the Hampton Roads area, it uses Military Highway to bypass the city centers. It is most usually a four-lane highway, sometimes up to freeway or expressway standards with controlled access.
context_section_description: What is now US 13 on the Eastern Shore was added to the state highway system in 1918 as State Route 4. It was renumbered State Route 34 in the 1923 renumbering, and US 13 was applied to its whole length in 1926. SR 34 was dropped in the 1933 renumbering, and was immediately reused on a route through Lawrenceville. That was renumbered to State Route 46 in the 1940 renumbering, and the current State Route 34 was designated in the late 1940s.
  Before the Chesapeake Bay Bridge–Tunnel, US 13 continued across the Chesapeake Bay using a ferry.
caption: Salem Methodist Church historical marker near Cheriton
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