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In the late 1940s a plan for a circumferential highway was planned. The highway was heavily promoted as a way to tap the skilled labor pool in the Merrimack Valley as well as prospective untapped sites for industrial development in the area. [1] [2]

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  1. Massachusetts' New Money Belt Interstate 495, The Boston Globe, April 10, 1961.
  2. Lawrence Lowell Ready for Route 495, The Boston Globe, April 11, 1961.