The highway between Richland and Kennewick was originally part of the first federal wagon road to be constructed in the Pacific Northwest, laid in 1853 between Fort Walla Walla and the Puget Sound region via Naches Pass. The wagon road is commemorated with a historic marker in Columbia Park, just north of the Edison Street interchange on SR 240. Local Native American tribes also used a trail following the route of the Hanford Highway to reach points west of Rattlesnake Mountain, including Yakima. By the early 1910s, several unpaved roads connected Richland to the Cold Creek Valley and Kennewick via a more westerly crossing of the Yakima River Delta. The Richland–Kennewick section was incorporated into the Inland Empire Highway, a paved cross-state route created by the legislature in 1913. The Yakima Valley section of the Inland Empire Highway, later numbered as State Road 3 and Primary State Highway 3, was incorporated into the national highway system in 1926 as part of US 410 between Yakima and Pasco. The Columbia Trail portion of US 410 was paved in concrete by the Benton County government in 1932, constituting the region's first paved highway.