 At this time, a small section northeast of Tobyhanna was paved while the remainder of the route was unpaved.In addition, the current route between Pocono Pines and Tobyhanna was an unpaved, unnumbered road.In the 1930s, PA 490 was extended southwest from Tobyhanna to PA 940 in Pocono Pines and was realigned to intersect PA 90 south of South Sterling.