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US Highway 25 (US 25) was a part of the
United States Numbered Highway System The United States Numbered Highway System (often called U.S. Routes or U.S. Highways) is an integrated network of roads and highways numbered within a nationwide grid in the contiguous United States. As the designation and numbering of these hi ...
in the state of Ohio that ran from its present terminus near
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, to its Michigan continuation. By the time it was decommissioned in 1973, all but the section north of
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ran concurrently with
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(I-75).


History

Before the U.S. Route system was established in 1926, the road that became US 25 was mostly numbered as State Route 6 (SR 6), but was numbered as SR 28 and SR 124 in the Cincinnati area. In 1950s and 1960s, US 25 was transferred to a new freeway that was the basis for
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. Nearly all of the original road remains intact, however. In 1973, the route was decommissioned, and the independent portion of the highway (north of Cygnet) became the whole of SR 25.


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