The North Missouri Cross State Highway - Part 8

The North Missouri Cross State Highway

Missouri's forgotten early 20th century autotrail.

By Route66Fan

Information is from Volume 5 of the 1918 Official Automobile Blue Book.

Satellite images courtesy of Google Maps.

Part 8 - Clark, MO to Mexico, MO.

While most of this section of the autotrail follows MO 22, other sections follow Main St., Morris St. & South Ave (In Clark, MO.), CR 242, CR 110, MO Y, Dinwiddle School Rd., MO 151 (Morris Rd), Southgate St. (Running parallel.), N. Fullenwider St., E. Switzler St., N. Barr St., Wilson St., N. Allen St., E. Singleton St., N. Jefferson St., South St., N. Howard Burton Dr. & a closed off section of North St (In Centralia, MO.), CR 215, CR 308, CR 945 (In Thompson, MO.), CR 306, W. Curtis St. & N. Abat St. (Called Abbot St. in the 1918 Official Automobile Blue Book.) (In Mexico, MO.). The road also goes past the Northern outskirts of Sturgeon, MO.





















































More to come in part 9.

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