Hopefully someday the bypass will start at Chesapeake and Rt 7 will be four lanes all the way to Athalia (or at least to the proposed Ohio river bridge just east of that Fairland East Elem building (site of the former Rome High School). The state already has Rt 7 double marked from Chesapeake as both State Rt 7 and County Rd 107. Rt 7 now turns left at the Proctorville bridge and up the ramp to the bypass. County Road 107 (Old Rt 7) continues east thru the village and ahead to the Elememtary school where it meets new Rt 7 and deadends. State Rt 243 now ends at the traffic light at Bradrick. What used to be part of Rt 243 from the fairgrounds east past Rome Cemetery and including Beulah Lane, is now County Rd 411. The 3/4 mile of State Rt 775 from Proctorville north to the bypass (where it deadends just past Halls Funeral Home), is now county Rd 775. In Lawrence County terms, all of the bypass is new. It was first talked up in the late fifties as soon as they had Rt 52 four laned from South Point to Chesapeake. The first addition was to extend the four lane road about a mile and build an interchange straight back from the "6th St bridge" (that bridge has been rebuilt, is 4 lanes, and in Huntington now drops onto 5th st south bound, and starts from 6th st northbound). The next section was a connector from the Proctorville bridge north to what became Irene Road ( I don't remember its number), near Riley's Cliffview apartments. The first part of Irene Road was a connector from Rt 7, just east of Paddy Creek, to Rt 775, built by American Elec. Power for transporting 4 gigantic transformers to the ultra high voltage substation the built about 3.5 miles north of Proctorville. As part of the bridge connector stage, this was extended to connect to the new main road. The last step so far has been to build two lanes of the bypass that connect to the bridge section, connect to 775 as previously mentioned, and continue past Big Paddy Creek Road and meet Rt 7 where they stopped years ago when the raised the section from Rome High School to Athalia to eliminate the lowest spot between Proctorville and Gallipolis. This latest section opened about 2 to 3 years ago, and immediately became Rt 7. The state ran into so many cost overruns on this stage that they are redesigning the Chesapeake to Proctorville section to minimize some of the type of cuts that caused the problems. Don Clark In a message dated 1/31/2010 11:04:42 A.M. Eastern Standard Time, nsedwards@bellsouth.net writes: Hey Don - Trying to get my bearings here, so let me just make sure I understand how the roads are numbered/named today. Are you saying that what was Rt 7 when are ancestors were living and probably when I was a kid in the 40's and 50's is now County Road 107? And the road (Beulah Lane/Rt 243) that curves around from the Fairgrounds to Rome Cemetery and back out to Beulah Bapt. Church and old Rt 7 is now County Rd 411? When you say that 107 "was State Rt 7 until they opened the new bypass road", are you referring to the bypass road as being "new" way back when it was first built, or is there another new bypass road in that area? It was easier when I was young and being carted around by adults. I just recognized what roads my relatives' houses were on, but I didn't know or need to know the names of the roads. ;-)