Connecticut Route 108

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Route 108

Connecticut Route 108
Map of Fairfield County in southwestern Connecticut with Route 108 highlighted in red
Route information
Maintained by CTDOT
Length11.05 mi [1]  (17.78 km)
Existed1932–present
Major junctions
South endUS 1.svg US 1 in Stratford
Major intersectionsConnecticut Highway 8.svgConnecticut Highway 15.svgMerritt Pkwy Shield.svg Route 8  / Route 15  / Merritt Parkway in Trumbull
North endConnecticut Highway 110 wide.svg Route 110 in Shelton
Location
Country United States
State Connecticut
Counties Fairfield
Highway system
  • Connecticut State Highway System
Connecticut Highway 107 wide.svg Route 107 Connecticut Highway 109 wide.svg Route 109

Route 108 in the U.S. state of Connecticut, locally called Nichols Avenue and Huntington Turnpike, is a two-lane state highway that runs northerly from US 1, Boston Post Road in Stratford, through Trumbull, to Route 110 in downtown Shelton. Originally called the Farm Highway, it was laid out to the south side of Mischa Hill in Trumbull on December 7, 1696 and is considered to be the third oldest documented highway in Connecticut after the Mohegan Road (Route 32) in Norwich (1670) and the Boston Post Road or US 1 (1673). [2]

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The section of Nichols Avenue from the Stratford-Trumbull town line to Huntington Turnpike in Trumbull is known as the Trooper Ernest Morse Memorial Highway, named in honor of a state trooper who was killed by gunfire on February 13, 1953, while trying to apprehend a suspect in a car theft. [3]

Route description

Route 108 begins at Barnum Avenue or US Route 1 in Stratford and proceeds north out of Stratford center intersecting with North Avenue and Second Hill Lane. It continues northward over Third Hill and intersects with Silver Lane, Hawley Lane and Route 8 in Trumbull. It then goes up and over Mischa Hill and into the center of the village of Nichols. It crosses over the Merritt Parkway and then defines the western boundary of the historic Nichols green and intersects with old cross highway Unity Road. Past Nichols center, it continues northward and intersects with Isinglass Road as it makes its way into the village of Huntington in Shelton. It bisects the historic Huntington green separating the common from the old St. Paul's Episcopal Church and old burial ground . Route 108 makes a turn eastward past the Huntington green on its way to its terminus at Route 110 in downtown Shelton at the western side of the Housatonic River. [1]

Route 108 is a two lane road that widens to four lanes with turning lanes and traffic lights at the intersections with Route 8 and Route 15 (Merritt Parkway) in Trumbull.

History

Remnant of Farm Highway at Nichols, Connecticut Nichols Avenue Trumbull Connecticut.jpg
Remnant of Farm Highway at Nichols, Connecticut

Major intersections

The entire route is in Fairfield County.

Locationmi [1] kmDestinationsNotes
Stratford 0.000.00US 1.svg US 1 (Barnum Avenue)Former Boston Post Road
Trumbull 2.674.30Connecticut Highway 8.svgNorth plate.svg
Connecticut Highway 15.svg
Route 8  / Route 15 north Waterbury, New Haven, Bridgeport
Exit 5 on Route 8; Exit 52 on Route 15 south / Merritt Parkway south
3.155.07South plate.svg
Connecticut Highway 15.svg
South plate blue.svg
Merritt Pkwy Shield.svg
Route 15 south / Merritt Parkway south New York City
Exit 51 on Route 15 north / Merritt Parkway north
Shelton 11.0517.78Connecticut Highway 110 wide.svg Route 110 (Howe Avenue)
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi

On the National Register of Historic Places

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References

  1. 1 2 3 Connecticut State Highway Log Archived 2015-09-05 at the Wayback Machine
  2. Connecticut Roads History
  3. Connecticut State Police Honor Roll
  4. A History of the Old Town of Stratford and the City of Bridgeport, Connecticut, Reverend Samuel Orcutt, Fairfield County Historical Society, 1886, Vol. II, page 1039
  5. Trumbull Historical Society - Timeline Archived 2011-05-21 at the Wayback Machine
  6. Reverend Samuel Orcutt, The History of the Old Town of Stratford, Connecticut, (Fairfield Historical Society, 1886)
  7. Charles Hoadly, The Public Records of the Colony of Connecticut 1636 to 1776, (Lockwood & Brainard, 1872)
  8. Public Records Colony of Connecticut volume 6, page 568
  9. 1 2 F.J. Wood, The Turnpikes of New England, (Marshall Jones Co., Boston, 1919)
  10. Connecticut Routes, Route 108
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