Brook Road Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway
Brook Road Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway | |
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| Location | 0.2 mi. E of jct. of Hillard and Brook Rds., Richmond, Virginia |
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| Coordinates | 37°36′51″N 77°27′25″W / 37.614203°N 77.457078°W |
| Area | less than one acre |
| Built | 1927 |
| MPS | UDC Commemorative Highway Markers along the Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia |
| NRHP reference No. | 07000765[1] |
| VLR No. | 043-5329 |
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| Added to NRHP | July 24, 2007 |
| Designated VLR | June 6, 2007[2] |
The Brook Road Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway is a commemorative marker on the Jefferson Davis Highway, in Henrico County, Virginia, outside of Richmond, Virginia.[1] 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.[3]: 14 The marker was placed in North Richmond Brook Road, south of Hilliard Road, in 1927. It is one of the earliest, out of 16, that were placed to mark the highway in Virginia by the United Daughters of the Confederacy.[3]: 7 It is a 42-inch-high (1.1 m) gray granite stone, with a slanted top, and a bronze plaque.[3]: 12
It 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.[3]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
- ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on 2013-09-21. Retrieved 5 June 2013.
- ^ a b c d Ruth D. Snead and Virginia Department of Historic Resources staff (2004). "UDC Commemorative Highway Markers along the Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia". National Park Service.
- Confederate States of America monuments and memorials in Virginia
- Buildings and structures in Henrico County, Virginia
- Buildings and structures completed in 1927
- Individual signs on the National Register of Historic Places
- Individual signs in the United States
- Jefferson Davis Highway
- Monuments and memorials on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- National Register of Historic Places in Henrico County, Virginia
- Road transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places
- Transportation buildings and structures on the National Register of Historic Places in Virginia
- United Daughters of the Confederacy monuments and memorials
- 1927 establishments in Virginia
- Central Virginia Registered Historic Place stubs