 When Interstate 95 was completed east of Fayetteville in 1983, large signs at the entrances of I-95 Business were erected to promote the businesses that were bypassed along the mainline.Established in 1978, to connect an incomplete gap of Interstate 95, Interstate 95 Business traversed from Kenly (exit 107) to Gold Rock (exit 145).The route was overlapped onto US 301, through the cities of Wilson and Rocky Mount; then just south of Battleboro, it goes alone over a four-lane connector road back onto mainline Interstate 95.