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The first section of the Pilgrims Highway was built as a bypass of Plymouth in the early 1950s.
The mid-1950s saw an extension of this bypass route south to the Sagamore Bridge and north to Kingston.
The northern section of the highway was built next with a connection from Derby Street in Hingham to the Southeast Expressway opening in 1959.
( Portions of this road run alongside the Old Colony Railroad's mainline, now used by the MBTA Old Colony Lines Commuter Rail, and the MBTA Red Line rapid transit.
) Finally the last sections between Hingham and Duxbury were completed by 1963 when the Route 3 designation was moved onto the completed freeway.
The former Route 3 highways became Route 3A in Quincy and from Kingston south, the remainder became Route 53.
Route 3 was connected to the Southeast Expressway in Milton by using Granite Avenue as a link from Gallivan Boulevard.
Until around 1965, the northern portion of the Pilgrims Highway, from current Exit 15 ( Derby Street ) in Hingham, was also signed as Route 128, which continued past the exit on surface streets to Hull.
However, by 1966 the 128 designation was removed past its intersection with Route 3 in Braintree ( and thus from the Pilgrims Highway entirely ) and the surface portion became Massachusetts Route 228.
Route 3 was then taken off its remaining pathway along surface streets in Boston and extended up the Southeast Expressway and Central Artery in 1971 to the Storrow Drive exit.
The routing of Route 3 has changed little since that time.

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