Jefferson Davis Highway
Historic long-distance highway in the United States / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Jefferson Davis Highway, also known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway,[1] was a transcontinental highway in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s that began in Arlington County, Virginia, and extended south and west to San Diego, California; it was named for Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, United States senator, and Secretary of War. Because of unintended conflict between the National Auto Trail movement and the federal government, it is unclear whether it ever really existed in the complete form that its United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) founders originally intended.[2]
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Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway | |
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Existed | 1913–present |
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East end | Arlington County, Virginia, U.S. |
West end | San Diego, California, U.S. |
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Country | United States |
States | Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, Texas, New Mexico, Arizona, California |
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