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Conland–Whitehead Highway

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and chair of a city bridge commission. That December, it was renamed after Ulmont I. "Monty" Whitehead, Jr., the first resident of Hartford to die in World War II. Whitehead, a 1933 graduate of Bulkeley High School in Hartford, graduated in 1940 from the U.S. Naval Academy, where he starred in
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football. On December 7, 1941, Whitehead was serving at Pearl Harbor on the battleship U.S.S. Arizona, which blew up and sank in the opening minutes of the Japanese attack, killing Whitehead and 1,176 other sailors. The name is frequently misspelled – even by the
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and I-84 in downtown Hartford. Today, the role of redirecting traffic from I-91 to I-84 is handled by
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It is signed as "Exit 29A – Capitol Area" on I-91 and has the unsigned designation of
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The highway opened in 1945 and was initially named for Henry F. Conland, publisher of the
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Whitehead Highway was originally to be part of Interstate 484, an auxiliary route of
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Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; exit 29A on I-91
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Index

Conlin-Whitehead Highway
ConnDOT
I-91
Hartford
United States
Connecticut
Hartford
Interstate
US
State
SSR
SR
Scenic
SR 597
SR 600
I-395
I-491
freeway
Hartford, Connecticut
Interstate 91
Park River Conduit

I-91
Hartford Courant
Connecticut Department of Transportation
I-84
I-91
I-691
Hartford
Hartford County

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