Route 139 (Massachusetts)
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Route 139 is a west–east state highway in southeastern
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. Its western terminus is at
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and Route 138 in Stoughton and its eastern terminus is at Route 14 in
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. Along the way it intersects several major highways including Route 24 in Stoughton and Route 3 in Pembroke.


Route description

Route 139 begins in Stoughton Square at the southern junction of the
Route 27 Route 27, or Highway 27, may refer to: Australia * Burke Developmental Road (Queensland) * Zeehan Highway (Tasmania) Canada * Alberta Highway 27 * British Columbia Highway 27 * Manitoba Highway 27 * Prince Edward Island Route 27 * Saskatchew ...
and 138 concurrency. The highway heads northeast until the junction with Route 24, at which point the highway heads almost due east. After the brief concurrency with Route 28 in Randolph, the highway heads in a generally east-southeasterly direction through
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, the extreme southwest corner of Weymouth, the North Abington section of Abington, Rockland,
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, the northern edge of Pembroke, and Marshfield. Once the highway reaches the shoreline in Marshfield, it turns in a south-southeasterly direction, passing through Fieldston, Ocean Bluff and Brant Rock, proceeding until just north of Brant Rock's
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. But then the highway heads west, while still signed east, for the last , passing through Cedar Crest before ending at Route 14 in
Duxbury Duxbury (alternative older spelling: "Duxborough") is a historic seaside town in Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States. A suburb located on the South Shore approximately to the southeast of Boston, the population was 16,090 at the 20 ...
.


Major intersections


References

{{Commons category, Massachusetts Route 139
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Duxbury, Massachusetts Marshfield, Massachusetts Pembroke, Massachusetts Hanover, Massachusetts Rockland, Massachusetts Abington, Massachusetts Weymouth, Massachusetts Holbrook, Massachusetts Stoughton, Massachusetts Randolph, Massachusetts Transportation in Norfolk County, Massachusetts Transportation in Plymouth County, Massachusetts