Jefferson Highway

Jefferson Highway sign

The Jefferson Highway was the beginning of the motorization of North America a route from New Orleans in the US -amerikanischen State of Louisiana to the Canadian Winnipeg moved. When the numbered highways system was established in the 1920s , the old Jefferson Highway was partially integrated or replaced with new roads.

Today, parts of the old Jefferson Highway are partially preserved in Jefferson Parish and East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana and in the places Osseo and Wadena in Minnesota. The Jefferson Highway was built in the second decade of the 20th century and, with its north-south orientation, was an answer to the coast-to-coast Lincoln Highway .

Obelisk erected in 1917 to mark the southern end of the Jefferson Highway in downtown New Orleans

The road was given the nickname Palm to Pine Highway (road from the palm trees to the pines) in allusion to the different tree species at its endpoints.

The cities the Jefferson Highway touches on its way north are Alexandria and Shreveport , Louisiana; Marshall in Texas ; Muskogee in Oklahoma ; Baxter Springs and Paola in Kansas ; Lee's Summit , Kansas City and Saint Joseph , Missouri ; Des Moines , Ames, and Mason City in Iowa ; and Albert Lea , Minneapolis, and Bemidji in Minnesota .

See also

• List of United States highways

Web links

Commons : Jefferson Highway  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Jefferson Highway Map ( November 2, 2012 memento on the Internet Archive )
• Jefferson Highway ( March 12, 2007 memento on the Internet Archive )
• Jefferson Lines
• From the palm trees to the pines
• Welcome to the Jefferson Highway ( October 23, 2012 memento in the Internet Archive )
• More on the Jefferson Highway ( April 18, 2008 memento on the Internet Archive )
• Minnesota Digital Library
• Jefferson Highway newspaper article (PDF) ( Memento from June 2, 2010 in the Internet Archive )