The Birmingham age-herald., 1915-06-27
ENDORSEMENT IS FORMALLY GIVEN
 JACKSON HIGHWAY
Birmingham Citizens Ap- prove Course and Pur- poses as Outlined by
 Miss Rittenberry

Citizens of Birmingham have indorsed the work of Miss Alma Rittenberry, chair man of the Jackson highway. and her plan and purpose in behalf of a trunk line road from Chicago to New Orleans. The road is almost built. All it needs is connecting up, and Jackson Highway signs put up.
 Jefferson county Alabama, was the first to give-on June 24, 1911-a right-of- way for the Jackson Highway Yester- day the board of revenue voted to put up the Jackson Highway signs along the highway through the county
 The indorsement of Birmingham citi- zens is as follows:
 We, the undersigned, indorse the route of the Jackson Highway from Chi cago to New Orleans, coming down through the towns of Crown Point, Ran selar Lafayette Ind, to Indianapolis, from Indianapolis to Louisville; out of Louisville over the Central Lincoln High way through Bardstown to Lincoln's farm. on down the turnpike out to Mammoth Cave, through Hodgesville and Scottsville. Ky to Gallatin, Tenn, to Nashville out to tue Hermitage back to Nashville, on down the old Louisville and Nashville turnpike to Franklin, Columbia and Pu- aski, through Athens Ala, to Decatur, on down south to Birmingham, Clan ton and Montgomery, back out of Mont gomery over the bridge westward to Sell ma. down by old St. Stephens to Mobile, along the old Shell road to Gulfport, skirting the gulf shore to Baton Rouge, down into New Orleans.
 This route has been worked up and talked about through the press and in magazines until 1t is recognized as the Jackson Highway from the lakes to the gulf, from coast to coast. We do not wish any 'whrlwind campaign as was the case in the location of the Dixie Highway, which has engendered so much dissatisfaction in regard to the selection of the route. Discomfort seems to still exist in the Dixie Highway organiza- ton. We ask the people along the route to quietly repair the old north and south turnpikes, and where needed, issue bonds and build in the missing links, and to buy out the corporations that own the toll gates and throw the highway open to the public free of charge.
 We. the undersigned, in signing this petition. do so with the understanding that We fully approve of the proposition to make Hon. Peter J. Atherton of Louis ville Ky, president of the Jackson Me morial Highway associate to carry out the plans and purposes of the organiza- tion, which is to build and maintain from county to county. state to state national highway from Chicago ovei the above named route to New Orleans to be called the Jackson Highway, as a monument to Andrew Jackson:
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