Jefferson Davis Highway Marker -Richmond Co
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Sprinterman
N 33° 26.793 W 082° 00.615
17S E 406102 N 3701249
Quick Description: Located US 78 and Tubman Home Rd. in Augusta
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 9/29/2009 5:56:59 PM
Waymark Code: WM7B7B
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Long Description:This marker was erected by Chapter "A" United Daughters of the
Confederacy of Augusta, Ga in 1930.
These highway markers are located along specific highways across
areas of the Southern United States and stretch as far as San
Francisco and up the the Canadian border via US 99. They were part
of a program of the United Daughters of the Confederacy to mark a
road stretching from coast to coast honoring the first and only
President of the Confederacy and former United States Secretary of
War before the Civil War. All this was before the highway numbering
system was put in place in the 1920's. In those days many
organizations set out to name certain routes to aid travelers in
getting from place to place by following the marked roads. Examples
of this type of road are the Lincoln Highway and the Dixie Highway.
All of them lost significance over the years as the federal highway
numbering system took over.
These stone makers can been found today in many places from
Virginia to Texas to California to Washington State most of which
are sponsored by not only the UDC but by local governments along
the way.
There does not appear to be any one centralized database of
these markers available today.
The Wiki article on this confusing subject is located at (
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