Elliott Grays Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway

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Elliott Grays Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway
Elliott Grays Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway is located in Virginia
Elliott Grays Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway
Elliott Grays Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway is located in the United States
Elliott Grays Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway
LocationJct. of Harwood St., Ingram Ave., and US 1 (Jefferson Davis Highway), Richmond, Virginia
Arealess than one acre
Built1929 (1929)
MPSUDC Commemorative Highway Markers along the Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia
NRHP reference No.06000748[1]
VLR No.127-6150-0002
Significant dates
Added to NRHPAugust 31, 2006
Designated VLRJune 8, 2006[2]

Elliott Grays Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway is a historic route marker located on U.S. Route 1, or Jefferson Davis Highway, in Richmond, Virginia. It was erected in 1929, by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. It is one of 16 erected in Virginia along the Jefferson Davis Highway between 1927 and 1947. The marker is an inscribed granite slab with smooth flat faces and rough-cut edges. It measures 47 inches tall, 25 inches wide and 12 inches thick. The stone is engraved with the text "Jefferson Davis Highway This tree marks the site of Battery 17 of the inner defenses of Richmond, 1862-65, and is planted in soil taken from battlefields A memorial to Confederate Soldiers by the Elliott Grays Chapter U.D.C. 1929."[3]

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  2. ^ "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Retrieved March 19, 2013.
  3. ^ Snead, Ruth D. (February 2006). "National Register of Historic Places Inventory/Nomination: Elliott Grays Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway" (PDF). Virginia Department of Historic Resources. and Accompanying two photos.


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