End of historic US highway 110

Note: since I don't have access to a comprehensive collection of historical road atlases, much of the info on this page is based on the research of Robert Droz and John Enslin. Photo credits: Jon Enslin; Jeff Morrison.

US 110 was a short diagonal highway, serving traffic between its parent route and US 41. Its northwest end was at its junction with US 10, just east of Fremont WI. The photo below was taken looking north at the former endpoint:

Enslin, 2001

In the 1920s and 30s, US 10 ran both east and west of this intersection. At the time that photo was taken, US 10 was on a newer bypass to the west, but was still using its original route to the east. Now the new US 10 is complete in both directions, and old US 10 east of the intersection is now WI hwy. 96. The photo below is looking east on WI 110:

Morrison, Aug. 2007

WI 110 turns right here, and ends at its junction with the new US 10. Also the right is westbound WI 96 (which also ends at US 10). Eastbound WI 96 is straight ahead (but was detoured at the time of that photo). That perspective is looking along what was once eastbound US 10, and the beginning of US 110 was to the right. Ironically, the portion of WI 110 that was formerly US 110 was decommissioned when US 45 was re-routed. So the only remaining portion of WI 110 is the segment that was added after 1960, and only about a mile of that ever served as US 110.

The photo below shows the original southern terminus of US 110 at the corner of Algoma and Jackson Streets in Oshkosh WI:

Enslin, 2001

Jackson (the cross street) is currently US 45 and Business US 41. At the time of US 110's existence, US 41 ran on Jackson and US 45 had not yet reached Wisconsin. US 110 was decommissioned in 1939 and became WI 110. The routing of WI 110 has been changed within Oshkosh, and no longer extends to this intersection.