Massachusetts Route 10 is a north–south
state highway
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that runs from the
Connecticut
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state line at
Southwick to the
New Hampshire
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state line at
Northfield. Originally part of
New England Route 10 from 1922 to 1927, it continues to the south as
Connecticut Route 10
Connecticut Route 10 is a state highway that runs from Interstate 95 (I-95) in New Haven Massachusetts state line, where it continues as Massachusetts Route 10, which in turn continues directly to New Hampshire Route 10.
Route 10 was originall ...
, and to the north as
New Hampshire Route 10
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.
Route description
Route 10 crosses the border from
Granby, Connecticut
Granby is a town in northern Hartford County, Connecticut, Hartford County, Connecticut, United States. The town is part of the Capitol Planning Region, Connecticut, Capitol Planning Region. The population was 10,903 at the 2020 United States cen ...
into
Southwick, Massachusetts
Southwick is a town in Hampden County, Massachusetts, United States. The population was 9,232 at the 2020 census, down from 9,502 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Springfield, Massachusetts Metropolitan Statistical Area.
History
Sou ...
, overlapped with
U.S. 202
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. It runs north through the
Pioneer Valley
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towns of
Southwick,
Westfield,
Southampton
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,
Easthampton,
Northampton
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,
Hatfield,
Whately,
Deerfield,
Greenfield
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Places Canada
* Greenfield, Edmonton, Alberta, a neighbourhood
* Greenfield, Colchester County, Nova Scotia
* Greenfield, Hants County, Nova Scotia
* Greenfield, Kings County, Nova Scotia
* Greenfield, Q ...
,
Bernardston,
Gill
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, and
Northfield. Route 10 has a long concurrency with
U.S. 5 for about from Northampton to Bernardston, where it was sometimes called the "5 & 10 Highway". During this concurrency, it closely parallels
Interstate 91
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, with five exits from Northampton to Deerfield, with close access at
Route 2 in Greenfield and another exit, solely for Route 10, in Bernardston. It crosses the
Connecticut River
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in Northfield before entering New Hampshire.
Route 10 is concurrent with seven other routes (US 5,
US 20, US 202, and Massachusetts Routes
57,
9,
116, and
63) for of its nearly in the state with three points of triple concurrency, leaving less than a third of its length as the sole road designation.
History
An odd sight greeted motorists in Easthampton in July 2005: standard issue
Alabama
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state highway signs with the number 10 in a map of that state, instead of the standard Massachusetts square. This odd "
Alabama 10" signage came about when a contractor mistakenly applied the sample from a federal manual. The signs have since been replaced with the correct shields.
Major intersections
See also
*
New England Interstate Route 10
,
,
,
,
,
The New England road marking system was a regional system of marked numbered routes in the six-state region of New England in the United States. The routes were marked by a yellow rectangular sign with black numbers and border. M ...
References
External links
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Route 10 endpoint photos
010 010 may refer to:
* 10 (number)
* 8 (number) in octal numeral notation
* Motorola 68010, a microprocessor released by Motorola in 1982
* 010, the telephone area code of Beijing
* 010, the Rotterdam
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