The number was assigned in the 1940 renumbering to replace part of State Route 32, and SR 88 was transferred to the secondary system in 1943 and 1948.

The portion east of SR 143 is now Lebanon Church Road inside Naval Weapons Station Yorktown, while the remainder no longer exists as a roadway, having been covered by Interstate 64 and a former clay pit.

3 miles (4.8 km) at the south end was added to the state highway system in 1932, with no number given,[15] and became SR 177 in the 1933 renumbering.

[5] The rest of the route was added in 1938,[16] but only four years later this extension, as well as the remainder north of Greenbush, was downgraded to secondary[17] in favor of the shorter parallel SR 316.

[citation needed] State Route 192 followed Kings Highway (now SR 125) and Crittenden Road from SR 10 at Chuckatuck northeast down the neck of land between Chuckatuck Creek and the Nansemond River in the direction of US 17 near Crittenden (where secondary State Route 628 ended) and Eclipse.

[49] The former secondary route system of Nansemond County was transferred to the city of Suffolk on July 1, 2006, resulting in the SR 628 designation being dropped.

State Route 193 followed Ballahack Road from former US 17 (Dismal Swamp Canal Trail) south of Wallaceton to former SR 170 (Old Battlefield Boulevard) at Northwest, now entirely within the city of Chesapeake.

[51] The road no longer has a state route number, since the city of Chesapeake maintains its own streets.

[58] State Route 285 ran along present secondary SR 641 (Penniman Road), southeast for 1 mile (1.6 km) from the US 60 bypass around Williamsburg.

[32] It was added to the primary state highway system in 1933,[59] initially running east from US 60 near Quarterpath Road and crossing the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's Peninsula Subdivision at a grade crossing, but a new alignment was built on the north side of the tracks[60] and the mile of approved road was reapplied such that only about 1⁄10 mile (0.16 km) of the preexisting Penniman Road was included in SR 285.

[32] State Route 286 ran along present secondary SR 713 (Waller Mill Road), northeast for 1 mile (1.6 km) from the US 60 bypass around Williamsburg.

[32] It was added to the primary state highway system in 1933,[62] initially beginning at Richmond Road (the pre-bypass US 60) and crossing over the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway's Peninsula Subdivision on a bridge, but portion this was abandoned when the new bypass was completed[60] and the full mile of mileage was used north of the bypass.

State Route 288 ran along a small portion of present secondary SR 695 from US 13 at Temperanceville northwest to the former New York, Philadelphia and Norfolk Railroad at Makemie Park.

[64] It was added to the primary state highway system in 1933, described as going towards Saxis Island,[65] and downgraded to secondary in 1947[66] as an extension of existing SR 695.

Providence Road had been designated Secondary State Route 602 before the 1963 consolidation of Princess Anne County and Virginia Beach.