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Maine State Route 124

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Termini and Mileage (2006)

Termini
Main alignment: Int of ELM ST, MAIN ST, ST RTE, Mechanic Falls to Int of BRYANT RD, ROUNDABOUT R, Buckfield
Mileage
Main alignment: 12.47 miles (total over all segments)

Notes and History
ME 124 as originally designated in 1925 ran between the tip of Bailey's Island and Brunswick at NEI 1 (now US 1), with its northern terminus at a now obliterated intersection (by Naval Air Station Brunswick); see ME 24 for a discussion of the old routing. Part of its routing included the Bailey Island Cribstone Bridge, built in 1928 using a remarkable open granite-stone cribwork design to allow free flow of tidal currents below traffic on the concrete deck above. Perhaps as a testament to the ingeniousness of this design, it is still in service as part of modern route ME 24 and was designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in July 1984 with a commemorative plaque on the north approach.
After the Maine Great Renumbering, the entire alignment of ME 124 became part of new route ME 24 and the number was reassigned to a new minor routing between western Minot and the Western Maine Sanitarium, one of the old-fashioned tuberculosis treatment facilities (see the Waterboro Public Library for a contemporary reference, under Miller; look at ME 210 for a similarly purposed route), and was extended further south to Mechanic Falls and its modern southern terminus in 1955. After the closure of the sanitarium in 1963, the closure of which even being noted in the logs themselves, the terminus still remained the facility until 1981-2 when it was extended to ME 117 at Buckfield. It has not changed since.

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Termini and Mileage (2006)	Termini Main alignment: Int of ELM ST, MAIN ST, ST RTE, Mechanic Falls to Int of BRYANT RD, ROUNDABOUT R, Buckfield Mileage Main alignment: 12.47 miles (total over all segments)

*Notes and History*	ME 124 as originally designated in 1925 ran between the tip of Bailey's Island and Brunswick at NEI 1 (now US 1), with its northern terminus at a now obliterated intersection (by Naval Air Station Brunswick); see ME 24 for a discussion of the old routing. Part of its routing included the Bailey Island Cribstone Bridge, built in 1928 using a remarkable open granite-stone cribwork design to allow free flow of tidal currents below traffic on the concrete deck above. Perhaps as a testament to the ingeniousness of this design, it is still in service as part of modern route ME 24 and was designated as a National Historic Civil Engineering Landmark in July 1984 with a commemorative plaque on the north approach. After the Maine Great Renumbering, the entire alignment of ME 124 became part of new route ME 24 and the number was reassigned to a new minor routing between western Minot and the Western Maine Sanitarium, one of the old-fashioned tuberculosis treatment facilities (see the Waterboro Public Library for a contemporary reference, under Miller; look at ME 210 for a similarly purposed route), and was extended further south to Mechanic Falls and its modern southern terminus in 1955. After the closure of the sanitarium in 1963, the closure of which even being noted in the logs themselves, the terminus still remained the facility until 1981-2 when it was extended to ME 117 at Buckfield. It has not changed since.