The Birmingham age-herald., 1911-09-10
JACKSON HIGHWAY
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 Fitting Monument To Jackson
 So it is fitting that the National Society of United States Daughters of 1S12, state of Alabama, should erect as a monument to Andrew Jackson a transcontinenta1 highway, reaching from the lakes on the north to Mobile and on to New Orleans, 70 follow Jacksons s trails wherever practica- lble. Other patriotic societies have spent millions in erecting buildings to house relics and the like, boulders and monu- ments, but this Jackson highway is not only the most ambitious, but is the most useful memorial ever erected by a pa triotic organization. It benefits the liv ing, while honoring the dead. It is to be a broad road, as low in grade and direct in route as possible, built county to coun- ty, state to state, each toting it's own skillet, down through this mighty empire between the "Blue Wall'' and the Rocky, mountains, which Jackson laid open to civilization by his conquest of the@1n- dians. It will be a source of pleasure, financial and cultural gain not only to the descendants of Boone and Clark, who blazed the way into this region, but to those brothers of ours from across the seas, who hope to find in their adopted land the advantages they could not get I in the old world. To properly make Amer | jeans of them, they must have all possl- | ble aid from us whose fathers came over l so much sooner.
 Route of Jackson Highway l The route of this Jackson Highway abounds in history. The lakes-they too are enshrouded in legends of 'The Beaten Track" the road around them made by l the French Canadians in their explora- tions in the early part of the 18th cen l tury; Chicago, on Lake Michigan, where | the white capped waves laden with com merce never tire of going to and fro 10 every land and cline, a. city that Is called the Mixing Bowp' of the nation, and where the immigrant is well seasoned, he lis sent over the Main Travelled Roads" | to the wheat fields of the great northwest, or pressed into the. ever increasing trade 1 of the city. The highway will pass through the black 1oamy soil of eastern Illinois, and built on the states rights plan, it pays a tribute to one of the lstates great sons, the famous Altgeld. | It will go through Indiana oyer an his- toric road or trail trod by Roger Clark or Henderson. "Wfen Knighthood was in Flower,' the homo of Hendricks, and 'eThe Gentleman from Indiana and of l l used to pass by 'srhat Old Swimming Hole" going "Out to Aunt Mary's." It will go over the old Louisville and Nash vile turnpike, famous In history and story, through Kentucky, ''the dark and bloody ground" That gave birth to a Clay,
 a Lincoln and Jefferson Davis. Had
 American history had but these three
 names, it would fill a glorious page. But
 Kentuck has given My Old Kentucky
 Home,' the Kentucky Cardinal" and
 Proctor Knott. It will go on through Ten
 nessee. by the Hermitage, where Andrew
 Jackson lived and died. The Hermitag ge
 and Jackson are associated terms, like Washington and Mount Vernon, man and his home, should be. It will pass through Nashville, beautiful for stuation--it rises gracefully above the bluffs of the river to be crowned with its capitol. The Cum berland river with it's bluffs and promoto- ries and variagated banks, sweep by it. while far and wide stretches delightful
 scenery. Almost in sight of the city and l12 miles away is the Hermitage and the
 grave of Jackson. James K. Polk, the |11th President of the United States, lies
 buried in the capitol grounds. Not in the city of the dead, but in the city of the living, his form reposes. These two Pres
 idents, adopted sons of Tennessee, warn personal friends in life, sleep almost to- gether in death. The sights and sounds of life with which they were familiar are still about their place of rest. The gen erations rising up around them who look upon their tombs and read their histories may be quickened by them to add new honors to the country they served and which honored them with its highest con | fidence.
 Passes Historic Franklin
 
 on down '"The Pike of Battles" to FranK- | lin. There is death in every mile of this pike.e It was battle-ground of the Con- federacy, a turning point in its history. It was on this pike and the Mt. Pleasant pike, that runs also from Columbia through "the garden spot of the world,@ that Buell. made up the hours that saved Grants army at Pittsburg Landing that Sunday night on April G. 1S62 which made Grant President instead of prisoner and welded two sections into one glorious nation. On what little things do the des- tiny of men and nations seem to hang. "A pike of battles 1t is and every mile battle-ground Here for four long days blue and gray charged and recharged, captured and recaptured-Van Dorn, For rest, Wheeler, Hood Wilson, Buell., Scho- field, Thomas, marching and counter marching on a long, white road of death. Here 1t was on that fateful November day ere night had dropped her curtain down, that Cleburne, StrahI Granbury, Adams and Gist, that matchless quintet.e Of brave generals, lay dead around the breastworks of Franklin, while thousands of the boys in gray who marched that day along this shaded avenue, and thousands of those in blue. who fell back before them, gave up their lives.'
 The Jackson Highway passes through Columbia, gem set in the Blue Grass section, on down to Pulaski, the home of Sam Davis, "the boy hero of the na- tion," Pulaski, the noted in Ku Klux T<lan history, thence over beautiful Elk |river. the hunting ground of Davy lCrockett. It passes through cultured Athens crosses the Tennessee-the river lof the Big Bend-to Decatur, which :,fe- |serves the name of stephen Decatur, 10 Cullman, where our brothers from over the sea found new fatherland, and on to Birmingham. the Magic City of the South." in the great county of Jefferson, named in honor of one whose name is in separably linked with the greatness of Jour countrys history.
 Jefferson First To Act
 The Board of Revenue of Jefferson coun- |ty was the first to grant to the Daughters of 1912 ''the right of way" It goes through the little town of Thorsby, peoped most ly by gentlemen from Indiana,' seeking a softer cline; through Montgomery. he "City of Memories wheresth flag of the q