Area less than one acre NRHP Reference # 06000748 Height 1.19 m Added to NRHP 31 August 2006 | Built 1929 (1929) VLR # 127-6150-0002 Opened 1929 | |
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Location Jct. of Harwood St., Ingram Ave., and US 1 (Jefferson Davis Highway), 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 | ||
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."
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.