I must be getting old. I can’t think of a better way to commemorate my 32nd birthday than continuing my examinations of the old highway alignments that once connected the cities of Muncie and Anderson in East Central Indiana! With my newfound age in mind, let’s focus on two discontiguous old alignments of Indiana State Road 32 in Madison County. Though we can quibble on specific boundaries, the highway spans about twelve miles from the western edge of Muncie to the east side of Anderson. The two discontinued alignments in Madison County measure around 3.5 miles.
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An old alignment of Indiana State Road 67 near Daleville
I’ve been hooked on exploring the old roads ever since I was fourteen and stumbled across a residential cul-de-sac that once carried Indiana State Road 67 from Anderson towards Muncie. I’ve never really written about them, but the back roads between the two cities have basically been my back yard for the past thirty years! This bypassed part of State Road 67 once connected them.
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Although it doesn’t look like much today, from 1937 to 1964 a rural cul-de-sac east of Anderson represented about one ten-thousandth of Indiana’s State Road 67, which stretches diagonally across Indiana from Illinois near Vincennes into Ohio near Bryant. Forty years after it was decommissioned, this little stub became the first old highway alignment I ever discovered. This tiny segment, only measuring a fifth of a mile, woke up my inner roadgeek.
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