Jefferson Davis Highway Marker - Columbia, South Carolina
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BruceS
N 34° 00.092 W 081° 01.941
17S E 497012 N 3762326
Stone monument on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse marking the route of the Jefferson Davis Highway in Columbia, South Carolina.
Waymark Code: WMGN8E
Location: South Carolina, United States
Date Posted: 03/23/2013
Views: 4
"The Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway was a planned transcontinental highway in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s that began in Washington, D.C. and extended south and west to San Diego, California; it was named for Jefferson Davis, who, in addition to being the first and only President of the Confederate States of America was also a U.S. Congressman and Secretary of War. Because of unintended conflict between the National Auto Trail movement and the federal government, it is unclear whether the Jefferson Davis highway ever really existed in the complete form that its founders originally intended." - Wikipedia
In South Carolina the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway extends 170 miles from the North Carolina border to Georgia border along U.S. Hwy 1. In Columbia in front of the Statehouse U.S. 1 is known as Gervais St. which this marker faces.
Condition: Immaculate
Date placed: 01/01/1923
Material: Stone
Inscription:
Jefferson Davis
Highway
Erected By The United Daughters
Of The Confederacy
1923
Name of road: U.S. Hwy 1 - Gervais St.
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