page_title: Jefferson Davis Highway
section_title: Virginia
hierarchical_section_title: Jefferson Davis Highway / Remaining portions / Virginia
caption_attribution_description: English: A marker for the Jefferson Davis Highway sits at the corner of the intersection of Georgia S.R. 12 (Broad Street) and Monument Street, across from a mural welcoming visitors to Crawfordville, Georgia.
context_page_description: The Jefferson Davis Highway, also known as the Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway, was a planned transcontinental highway in the United States in the 1910s and 1920s that began in Arlington, Virginia, and extended south and west to San Diego, California; it was named for Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States, United States senator, and Secretary of War. Because of unintended conflict between the National Auto Trail movement and the federal government, it is unclear whether it ever really existed in the complete form that its United Daughters of the Confederacy founders originally intended.
context_section_description: As of 2020, the portion of U.S. 1 between and including Prince William County and Caroline County is designated Jefferson Davis Highway, as is a separate portion from southern Richmond through Chesterfield County.
  The Virginia General Assembly defined the Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia on March 17, 1922, as traveling from Arlington at the 14th Street Bridge to the Commonwealth's border with North Carolina south of Clarksville. This corridor was defined as US 1/US 15 in 1926, although US 1 took a shorter route between south of McKenney and South Hill. (The Jefferson Davis Highway used what was then SR 122 and SR 12). The highway's original eastern terminus marker was located at the Virginia end of the 14th Street Bridge, which crosses the Potomac River from Washington, D.C. The marker was there until the 1960s, when it was moved to a nearby location for safety reasons.
  The designation "Jefferson Davis Highway" was extended to Virginia State Route 110 when it was constructed in 1964, thus creating an continuous route from Alexandria to Rosslyn.  Fairfax County changed the name to "Richmond Highway" around 1970.  The Alexandria portion of the route was renamed "Richmond Highway" in January 2019, and the Arlington portion received the same renaming in May 2019.
  State Route 712 and U.S. Route 58 are still defined as the Jefferson Davis Highway, as well as U.S. Route 58 Business in Lawrenceville and Boydton.
  The Falling Creek and Proctor Creek highway markers in Chesterfield County, Brook Road Marker in Henrico County, Ashland Marker in Hanover County, and Elliott Grays Marker and Maury Street Marker in Richmond, Virginia are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
caption: Marker along US 278 in Crawfordville, GA
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