Ashland UDC Jefferson Davis Highway Marker explained

Jefferson Davis Highway Marker
Nearest City:Ashland, Virginia
Coordinates:37.6894°N -77.4625°W
Added:August 27, 2013
Area:less than one acre
Refnum:13000642

The Jefferson Davis Highway Marker is a commemorative marker on the Jefferson Davis Highway, in Hanover County, Virginia, near Ashland. It is a 42adj=midNaNadj=mid gray granite stone, with a slanted top, with two bronze plaques. The Jefferson Davis Highway was conceived and marked by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, as a counter to the Lincoln Highway in the north, during 1913–1925. In that era, named highways were being marked as automobile travel increased, and the advent of numbered highways eventually loomed. The marker was placed at the junction of what is now US Route 1 and Cedar Lane (Virginia Route 623), between Richmond and Ashland, in 1927. It has been moved twice: in the 1970s it was moved to accommodate the widening of Route 1, and it was moved across Route 1 in the 1980s.[1]

The marker is one of a number of markers studied in a National Park Service study, UDC Commemorative Highway Markers along the Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia.[2]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: NRHP nomination for Ashland UDC Jefferson Davis Highway Marker. Virginia DHR. 2014-03-26. https://web.archive.org/web/20140131213945/http://www.dhr.virginia.gov/registers/Counties/Hanover/042-5509_UDC_Ashland_Marker_2013_NRHP_FINAL.pdf. 2014-01-31. dead.
  2. Web site: [{{NRHP url|id=64500886}} UDC Commemorative Highway Markers along the Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia ]. Ruth D. Snead and Virginia Department of Historic Resources staff . 2004 . National Park Service.