Fitzgerald leader enterprise and press., 1926-08-26
JEFFERSON DAVIS
HISTORIC HIGHWAY
THROUGH GEORGIA

(Atlanta Constitution, August 22nd)
At the annual session of the Geor-
gia division, U. d. c., at Decatur, the
daughters accepted the Jefferson Da-
Wis highway through the historic ter
ritory of Richmond, Jefferson, john
son, Laurens, Dodge, Wilcox, Ben
Hill, Irwin, Turner, Worth, Dough-
erty, Terrell, Randolph and Quitman
counties to connect the two capitals
of the Confederacy, Montgomery and
Richmond, Va, with a highway
through Georgia which included the
route taken by the Confederate chief
tain and his party in his final effort
to, escape the federal forces. By this
action the organization assumed re-
sponsibility whose performance would
indelibly link the future ages with the
past and keep alive the sentiments of
the '6Os in the use Of highway
through Georgia, which would per-
petuate the historic sentiment, as
nothing else would.
At the 31st convention OF the Uni
ted Daughters of the Confederacy,
held in Savannah III 1924, this organ
ization gave its unanimous indorse-
ment TO this route and included it in
the highway program, with which the
natiopa1 orro ~ izotioo hoe upIart a lxap
to memorialize the valor of the he
roes of the south. Georgia as yet,
the only southern state, has failed to
give official recognition through
adoption of this route by its state
highway department in the state.
Virginia, North and South Carolina,
the city of Augusta, Alabama, Mis-
sissippi, Louisiana and Texas have Of
ficially adopted an interstate route,
submitted by the organizations of
chapters of the U. D. C. in the sew
eral states. The several counties in
Georgia, through which this historic
route passes, have each made i'm
provements on the portions of the
route through their respective terri
tory. Several chapters of U. D. C.
have placed boulders at historic spots,
commemorating a brief visit by Mr..
Davis and his party in their respective
towns. Such boulders are placed by
the Oconee chapter at Dublin, by the
Fannie Gordon chapter at Eastman
and the Martha Mcleod chapter at
Abbeville, where Mr.. Davis and his
party camped the night before and
the night after his capture at Irwin
vile, where the state owns now the
land upon which Mr.. Davis and his
party camped and were captured by
the federal soldiers. This land is to
be beautified by the state in coopera-
ton with the Georgia division, U. D.
C. The Turner county chapter has
placed boulder of Georgia granite
at the intersection of the jefferson
Davis highway and the national high
way.
About 70 miles of the entire route
from the South Carolina state line to
the state line of Alabama are not a
part of the state highway system, but
applications to adopt these links have
been filed with the state highway de-
partment and efforts on the part of
the officers and members of the U.
D. C. should be made to secure their
adoption.
When this route is accepted and
made state-aid road the work of
beautifying the route remains for the
Daughters of the Confederacy and
their descendants to complete, work
which has such wonderful possibili-
ties for perpetuating the memories
and sentiments of the Confedreacy
for future carnations.
AUGUSTA H. GREENE,
MRS. L. w. GREENE.
Chairman of Publicity Georgia Di-
CO.