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About this blog: random thoughts, discoveries, ramblings. Much of this was originally composed as email to a local history mailing list, rather than being written specifically for publishing, so it's a little disjointed. I figured it was better to get it out to everyone else in rough form rather than not at all.
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Here's something I found in Pretty Sally's Hill: A History of Wallan, Wandong, and Bylands:
"Under this Act, the Sydney Road became the North-Eastern Highway on 1
July 1925 but that title was shortlived. On 17 October 1928 the Victorian
and New South Wales Governments jointly named the former Sydney Road the
Hume Highway."
[...]
"The last link in the chain was the modern thirty-four kilometre link
between Wallan and Broadford, [...] Designated the Hume Freeway, it was
declared open by the Premier of Victoria, the Hon. R. J. Hamer, on 3 May
1976."
So it appears the Hume Highway came into official existence in 1928, and the first portion of the Hume Freeway in 1976.
UPDATE: The portion between Craigieburn and Donnybrook is the last remaining portion of the "highway" and as of 2008 is being upgraded to "freeway" status.
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