South Carolina Highway 274 (SC 274) is a primary
state highway
A state highway, state road, or state route (and the equivalent provincial highway, provincial road, or provincial route) is usually a road that is either ''numbered'' or ''maintained'' by a sub-national state or province. A road numbered by a ...
in the U.S. state of
South Carolina. It connects the cities of
Rock Hill and
Gastonia, North Carolina. Though it travels generally in a north–south direction, it is signed west–east.
Route description
SC 274 is mostly a four-lane suburban highway that traverses , from the
North Carolina state line, where the road continues north as
North Carolina Highway 274 (NC 274), to downtown Rock Hill at
SC 322.
History
Established in 1937 as a renumbering of SC 58 to match NC 274, it originally traveled from
SC 49 to the North Carolina state line. In 1939, it was extended south to
SC 5 (now
SC 161), traveling
concurrently with SC 49. In 1942, the entire route was fully paved. Between 1959 and 1961, SC 274 was extended south again to its current southern terminus on Cherry Road in Rock Hill.
Major intersections
See also
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References
External links
*{{commons category inline
SC 274 at Virginia Highways' South Carolina Highways Annex
274
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Transportation in York County, South Carolina