Maine State Route 35
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Termini and Mileage (2006)	Termini Main alignment: Int of RTE 9A, RTE 9, BEACH, Kennebunk to Int of RTE 26, MAIN ST., Bethel Mileage Main alignment: 91.64 miles (total over all segments)
Notes and History	ME 35, a western arterial, has always run approximately where it does today between Kennebunkport and Bethel as designated after the Maine Great Renumbering. In Kennebunkport, ME 35 starts with ME 9A at ME 9 into Kennebunk along a portion of former ME 204, crossing US 1 in a very brief multiplex. From there it goes north along new routing through Hollis Center and Standish to Windham (partially with former ME 114 near Sebago Lake, and with ME 25 near Standish along what is now ME 35A), then up ME 18 (now US 302) to just east of Naples. From there, it continued north on the former alignment of ME 213 (itself former ME 201SH) to Harrison, briefly corouted with ME 117 west, then north again along former ME 119 to North Waterford (later partially cosigned with ME 37) and the truncated ME 118, north of which ME 35 assumed ME 118's old alignment with new ME 5 to terminate at US 2 in Bethel. Between 1937-8, ME 35 was rerouted to a straightened bypass alignment southeast of Dow Corner between Bonny Eagle and Standish, eliminating the brief multiplex between ME 35 and ME 25 (shown as "Junction 25" and "Standish (Junction 25)" in the route logs) and shaving several miles from the routing in the process, leaving the orphaned alignment as ME 35A. In the same time period, ME 35 was split off from ME 5 at Town House, entering Bethel along Vernon St and Paradise Hill Rd as seen on the 1941 topo (warning: large image); by 1964, the Paradise Hill Rd routing had been dropped and ceased to be numbered highway, replaced by Vernon St and Main St to ME 26 instead, as shown on the 1964/6 general atlas. This routing remains today.
Additional Resources	Maine Highways 26 to 50 (JP Kirby)

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