the highway was paved between Tin City and the Northeast Cape Fear River and along a section in Jones County between its eastern terminus and an area east of Comfort. The project to pave NC 41 in Jones County continued in the following years. The highway was paved between an area east US 258 and NC 12 by 1941 and by 1942 the paving project was completed to US 258. Paving east of Beulaville was complete by 1948 and the entire highway was paved by 1951. NC 41 was rerouted between Tomahawk and Harrells by 1952 using its modern routing. Much of the former route became an extension of NC 411 while the remainder was downgraded to a secondary road known as Harrells Highway. By 1961, the highway was rerouted near Dublin to bypass the town to the south. The former route between NC 41 west of Dublin and NC 87 became a secondary roadway and the NC 41 and NC 87 concurrency was eliminated through Dublin. On June 4, 1970, NC 41 was realigned in Tin City continuing east from its intersection with NC 11. The realignment ended a short concurrency with NC 11 and a segment of NC 41 east of NC 11 became a secondary road. NCDOT rerouted NC 87 and NC 41 to follow a new bypass around Elizabethtown on June 15, 1998, leaving behind the routing along Broad Street. NC 41 was the follow the new highway, concurrent with NC 87 until reaching US 701 at an interchange. At the interchange, NC 41 was to turn and run concurrently with US 701 through Elizabethtown. NCDOT reversed the rerouting of NC 41 less than one month later, placing it along Broad Street concurrently with NC 87 Business, on July 10, 1998. Despite NCDOT rerouting NC 41 away from the bypass in Elizabethtown, no signage was updated to reflect the new routing. A second change to reroute NC 41 along NC 87 Business was request in 2013 and was approved in 2015. The request was approved on August 20, 2015. In Lumberton, NC 41 was realigned on September 29, 2006. The highway was removed from Pine Street between NC 72 and Elizabethtown Road, and Elizabethtown Road between Pine Street and NC 211. Instead, the highway was rerouted to run concurrently with NC 72 to NC 211, and then turn to run concurrently with NC 211 to Elizabethtown