 US 11 heads west as Radford Street and north as Main Street to the center of the town.SR 8 was included in the initial 1918 state highway system as part of State Route 23, which continued north to West Virginia via present U.S. Route 460.In the 1933 renumbering, SR 23 was renumbered State Route 8 because the number was used by U.S. Route 23.