Kentucky Route 3294
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| Length: | 9.445 mi (15.200 km) | |||
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  US 60 / KY 180 in Cannonsburg
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| East end: |
 US 23 / US 60 in Catlettsburg
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| Counties: | Boyd | |||
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Kentucky Route 3294 is a state maintained highway in Boyd County, Kentucky. It was originally commissioned as a state rural route in 1987 under the term of governor Martha Layne Collins, who led a statewide adoption of many higher traffic county roads and former state owned roads as state highways for maintenance purposes.
The original designation began at the intersection with U.S. 23 in Catlettsburg, then followed Cemetery Road which becomes Catlettsburg-Cannonsburg Pike (aka Cannonsburg Road)which terminatesnat U.S. 60 aat Cannonsburg, an unincorporated hamlet in western Boyd County.
KY Route 3294 is noted on U.S. 23 and U.S. 60 informational material as a replacement designation for the highways' original route through Catlettsburg and also as part of the original Midland Trail, which was popular and important stagecoach road bte.
The original 1987 route was approximately 6 miles long and was signed on the highway originally known as the Midland Trail prior to the 1926 designation of U.S. Route 60. Midland Trail became U.S. 60 throughout Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky in 1926, with the creation of the Federal Highway system. From 1926 until 1964, this stretch of road was signed as U.S. 60 Alt. as the main routing of U.S. 60 was multiplexed from Catlettsburg with U.S. 23 and followed it slightly north to go through downtown Catlettsburg and Ashland before rejoining the Midland Trail at Cannonsburg. After 1964, the Alt. U.S. 60 designation was removed and the stretch of road was turned over to Boyd County for maintenance. It was maintained by the county until 1987.
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