Maine State Route 108
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Termini and Mileage (2006)	Termini Main alignment: Int of RT 108, RT 219, Turner to Int of BRIDGE ST, ST RTE 108, Rumford Mileage Main alignment: 26.69 miles (total over all segments)
Notes and History	ME 108 as originally designated in 1925 ran between Livermore at ME 107 (now ME 4) and Dixfield at NEI 15 (now US 2), part of the incarnation of former lettered highway O; by 1929 it reached all the way to Rumford along new routing, where it terminated also at NEI 15 (US 2). It seems that the original terminus of ME 108, and thus the routing of lettered highway O, was at US 2 in Dixfield where it crossed the river. This routing was dropped in the 1929 extension. Surviving the Maine Great Renumbering, ME 108 was additionally extended up ME 4 briefly to turn back south again on a new alignment along Boothby Rd. This extended alignment, added 1946-7, then terminated at ME 219 near Turner where it still does today. With US 2, both routes cover both shores of the Androscoggin in their respective regions. Between 1953-4, ME 108 was relocated in Rumford along a southerly bypass routing (opened 1954) on Bridge St, which it still uses today to intersect US 2 at Franklin St. The old alignment is not exactly clear, but it was probably along Hartford and Portland Sts to intersect US 2 at the traffic circle along Rumford Ave.
Archival Photographs
ME 108 in Rumford along the 1953-4 realignment on present-day Bridge St (Highway News 7/58). The Hartford St bridge is in the background, part of the old routing.

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