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Maury Street Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway

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Area
  
less than one acre

NRHP Reference #
  
04000572

Opened
  
1935

Built
  
1935 (1935)

VLR #
  
127-5833

Added to NRHP
  
2 June 2004

Maury Street Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway

Location
  
Jct. of Maury St. 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

Maury Street 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 1935, 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 45 inches (110 cm) tall, 25 inches (64 cm) wide and 9 inches (23 cm) thick. The stone is engraved with the text "Jefferson Davis Highway Erected by Elliott Grays Chapter United Daughters of the Confederacy 1935".

It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2004.

References

Maury Street Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway Wikipedia