Ashford is a small town in northeast Connecticut.

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The fact that Ashford has a motel is thanks to its location on the Wilbur Cross Highway (now I-84), which has been a main travel route since the 1940s.

When it was being widened in the late 1970s, the motel's roadside sign encroached just enough into the widened right-of-way that part of it had to be cut off; for a time, the sign read "ASHFORD MOTE".

Ashford has seen two of its highways change numbers a few decades earlier, only to revert back in the 1980s. Route 74 became part of US 44, but is now Route 74 again; and I-84 became I-86, then I-84.

Overview

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• Wikipedia

Present routes

• I-84
• US 44
• CT 74, CT 89

Past routes

• I-86, 1969-1984 (now I-84)
• US 44A, 1942-1982 (now US 44)
• SR 424, 1938-1947 (might be part of CT 89)

Cancelled routes

• None