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Brook Road Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
07000765

Opened
  
1927

Built
  
1927

VLR #
  
127-6150-0008

Added to NRHP
  
24 July 2007

Brook Road Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway

Location
  
0.2 mi. E of jct. of Hillard and Brook Rds., Richmond, Virginia

MPS
  
UDC Commemorative Highway Markers along the Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia

Similar
  
Agecroft Hall, Branch House, Virginia Holocaust Museum, Monroe Park, Maggie L Walker National

The Brook Road Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway is a commemorative marker on the Jefferson Davis Highway, in Henrico County, Virginia, outside of Richmond, Virginia. 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. 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. It is a 42-inch-high (1.1 m) gray granite stone, with a slanted top, and a bronze plaque.

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.

References

Brook Road Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway Wikipedia