page_title: Blue Star Memorial Highway
section_title: North Carolina
hierarchical_section_title: Blue Star Memorial Highway / List / North Carolina
caption_attribution_description: English: Not simply content with installing a plaque, the North Carolina Department of Transportation has a paved blue star at the base of the Blue Star Memorial Highway plaque at the courtyard of the southbound Interstate 95 North Carolina Welcome Center in Pleasant Hill Township, Northampton County, North Carolina.
context_page_description: Blue Star Memorial Highways are highways in the United States that are marked to pay tribute to the U.S. armed forces. The National Council of State Garden Clubs, now known as National Garden Clubs, Inc., started the program in 1945 after World War II. The blue star was used on service flags to denote a service member fighting in the war. The program has since been expanded to include Memorial Markers and Memorial By-ways. These markers are used in National Cemeteries, parks, veterans facilities, and gardens.
context_section_description: Interstate 26, throughout state (approved on October 4, 1968).
  Milepost 41 – Westbound Buncombe/Henderson County Rest Area (dedicated on July 18, 2008).
  Milepost 68 – Westbound Welcome Center.
  Interstate 40, throughout state (approved on May 5, 1967).
  Milepost 82 – Westbound McDowell County Rest Area.
  Milepost 136 – Eastbound Catawba County Rest Area.
  Milepost 364 – Duplin County Rest Area (dedicated on April 6, 2005).
  Interstate 77, throughout state.
  Milepost 105 – Southbound Welcome Center (dedicated on July 21, 2006).
  Interstate 85, throughout state (approved on May 5, 1967).
  Interstate 95, throughout state (approved on June 13, 1980).
  Milepost 181 – Southbound Welcome Center.
  U.S. Route 17, from Wilmington to Elizabeth City (approved on November 28, 1949).
  U.S. Route 64, from Tennessee state line to Nags head (approved on July 2017).
  U.S. Route 70, throughout state.
  15th Avenue Place SE, in Hickory.
  U.S. Route 74 Business from Rockingham to Hamlet (approved on April 20, 1984).
  New Hamlet Senior Center, in Hamlet (dedicated on October 18, 1984).
  U.S. Route 158, from Mocksville to Roanoke Rapids (approved on April 6, 1976).
  U.S. Route 158, from Roanoke Rapids to Elizabeth City (approved on May 4, 1972).
  U.S. Route 158, from Elizabeth City to Nags Head (approved on November 28, 1949).
  U.S. Route 301, throughout state (approved on April 28, 1949).
  Hay Street at Freedom Memorial Park, in Fayetteville (dedicated on March 3, 1956).
  U.S. Route 421, in Wilkes County.
  Milepost 282 – Northwest Visitor Center (dedicated on September 14, 2010).
  North Carolina Highway 24, in Jacksonville (approved on April 20, 1984).
  Near City Hall towards Camp Lejeune, in Jacksonville (dedicated on May 27, 1984).
caption: A paved blue star and historical marker at the southbound I-95 Welcome Center in Pleasant Hill, NC
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