sentences:  The east–west road connecting Everson and Nooksack to the Guide Meridian was paved in the early 1930s by the county government.The Everson road was designated as a branch of Secondary State Highway 1A (SSH 1A) by the state legislature in 1951.SR 544 was created during the 1964 renumbering to replace the Everson branch, while the rest of SSH 1A became SR 9.