State Route 353 (SR 353) is a
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
northeastern portion of the
U.S. state
In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50. Bound together in a political union, each state holds governmental jurisdiction over a separate and defined geographic territory where it shares its sover ...
of
Tennessee
Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...
, in the area known as the
Tri-Cities region. It
connects the community of
South Central with the town of
Jonesborough.
Route description
SR 353 begins at an
intersection
In mathematics, the intersection of two or more objects is another object consisting of everything that is contained in all of the objects simultaneously. For example, in Euclidean geometry, when two lines in a plane are not parallel, their i ...
with
SR 107 in
South Central as Bailey Bridge Road. Approximately from SR 107, the route crosses the
Nolichucky River
The Nolichucky River is a river that flows through Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, in the southeastern United States. Traversing the Pisgah National Forest and the Cherokee National Forest in the Blue Ridge Mountains, the river's wate ...
. It continues to the community of
Washington College
Washington College is a private liberal arts college in Chestertown, Maryland. Maryland granted Washington College its charter in 1782. George Washington supported the founding of the college by consenting to have the "College at Chester" name ...
, where Bailey Bridge Road ends and SR 353 becomes Old State Route 34. It continues northeast through rural areas to pass through
Telford
Telford () is a town in the borough of Telford and Wrekin and ceremonial county of Shropshire, England, about east of Shrewsbury, south west of Stafford, north west of Wolverhampton and from Birmingham in the same direction. With an est ...
. It meets its northern terminus in
Jonesborough, an intersection with
SR 81 southwest of downtown.
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]
Major intersections
History
The original designation for SR 353 was State Route 81A (SR 81A), an alternate route of SR 81. But as with most alternate routes that existed within the Tennessee, it was renumbered, which is when it gained its current designation.
See also
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* List of state routes in Tennessee
The Tennessee state routes do not follow a systematic numbering system unlike the U.S. Highway System and some other states' highway systems. The routes are separated into primary and secondary routes though. Many of the routes are hidden in tha ...
References
353
Transportation in Washington County, Tennessee
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