The system in its final (?) approved form consisted of 26 routes with some differences:
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State Highway 1,
Texarkana, Dallas, Fort Worth, and El Paso Highway, beginning at Texarkana via Mt. Pleasant, Mt. Vernon, Sulphur Springs, Greenville, Rockwall, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Mineral Wells, Abilene, Sweetwater, Colorado, Big Springs, Midland, Pecos, Sierra Blanca and El Paso. Southern route of the
Texarkana-Dallas Highway was designated as follows: Texarkana via Atlanta, Linden, Daingerfield, Pittsburg, Winnsboro, Sulphur Springs. Two routes of the
Fort Worth-El Paso Highway from Palo Pinto to Abilene were designated as the northern route through Caddo, Breckenridge, Albany and Abilene; southern route via Strawn, Ranger, Eastland, Cisco, Putnam, Baird and Clyde, meeting at Abilene.
State Highway 2,
Meridian Road or Highway, from Burkburnett through Wichita Falls, Fort Worth, Meridian, Waco, Temple, Taylor, Austin, San Antonio to Laredo, with a branch off from Waco to Marlin, Calvert, College Station, Navasota, Hempstead, Houston and Galveston.
State Highway 3,
Southern National Highway, from a point in Orange on the Sabine river through Orange, Beaumont, Houston and San Antonio to Del Rio (the original highway entered Texas at the foot of Green Avenue in Orange after crossing the Sabine River on the Orange Memorial Bridge which was demolished in the 1950s with the advent of "Super 90" which would become Interstate 10 when the highway was routed northward.
State Highway 8,
East Texas Highway, from a point on the Red River north of New Boston, through New Boston, Linden, Jefferson, Marshall, Carthage, San Augustine, Jasper and Beaumont to Port Arthur.
State Highway 11,
Jefferson Highway, from a point on the Red River six miles north of Denison to Denison, Greenville, Mt. Pleasant, Longview and the state line east of Marshall.
State Highway 16,
Denton-Oklahoma Highway, from a point on the state line north of Gainesville south through Gainesville to Denton and thence to Fort Worth. One branch of the road from Denton will go to Dallas, another from the same point through Aubrey, Pilot Point and Tioga, connecting with the North Texas Highway at Whitesboro.
State Highway 18,
Albany-Broncho Highway, from Albany through Aspermont, Dickens, Lubbock, Brownfield and Broncho, and may connect with the Fort Worth-Roswell Highway.
State Highway 24,
Old Southern Trail, from Burkburnett through Wichita Falls, Archer City, Throckmorton, Albany, Baird, Mason, Fredericksburg, Boerne, San Antonio and Laredo.
The system in its final (?) approved form consisted of 26 routes with some differences:
[1]
State Highway 1,
Texarkana, Dallas, Fort Worth, and El Paso Highway, beginning at Texarkana via Mt. Pleasant, Mt. Vernon, Sulphur Springs, Greenville, Rockwall, Dallas, Ft. Worth, Mineral Wells, Abilene, Sweetwater, Colorado, Big Springs, Midland, Pecos, Sierra Blanca and El Paso. Southern route of the
Texarkana-Dallas Highway was designated as follows: Texarkana via Atlanta, Linden, Daingerfield, Pittsburg, Winnsboro, Sulphur Springs. Two routes of the
Fort Worth-El Paso Highway from Palo Pinto to Abilene were designated as the northern route through Caddo, Breckenridge, Albany and Abilene; southern route via Strawn, Ranger, Eastland, Cisco, Putnam, Baird and Clyde, meeting at Abilene.
State Highway 2,
Meridian Road or Highway, from Burkburnett through Wichita Falls, Fort Worth, Meridian, Waco, Temple, Taylor, Austin, San Antonio to Laredo, with a branch off from Waco to Marlin, Calvert, College Station, Navasota, Hempstead, Houston and Galveston.
State Highway 3,
Southern National Highway, from a point in Orange on the Sabine river through Orange, Beaumont, Houston and San Antonio to Del Rio (the original highway entered Texas at the foot of Green Avenue in Orange after crossing the Sabine River on the Orange Memorial Bridge which was demolished in the 1950s with the advent of "Super 90" which would become Interstate 10 when the highway was routed northward.
State Highway 8,
East Texas Highway, from a point on the Red River north of New Boston, through New Boston, Linden, Jefferson, Marshall, Carthage, San Augustine, Jasper and Beaumont to Port Arthur.
State Highway 11,
Jefferson Highway, from a point on the Red River six miles north of Denison to Denison, Greenville, Mt. Pleasant, Longview and the state line east of Marshall.
State Highway 16,
Denton-Oklahoma Highway, from a point on the state line north of Gainesville south through Gainesville to Denton and thence to Fort Worth. One branch of the road from Denton will go to Dallas, another from the same point through Aubrey, Pilot Point and Tioga, connecting with the North Texas Highway at Whitesboro.
State Highway 18,
Albany-Broncho Highway, from Albany through Aspermont, Dickens, Lubbock, Brownfield and Broncho, and may connect with the Fort Worth-Roswell Highway.
State Highway 24,
Old Southern Trail, from Burkburnett through Wichita Falls, Archer City, Throckmorton, Albany, Baird, Mason, Fredericksburg, Boerne, San Antonio and Laredo.