Route 139 is a west–east

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in southeastern

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. Its western terminus is at Route 27 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 and

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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

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in Randolph, the highway heads in a generally east-southeasterly direction through Holbrook, 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

Major intersections

References

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