- Jefferson Highway
:"For the Jefferson Highway from Richmond to
Staunton, Virginia , seeJefferson Highway (Virginia) . For the one in Oregon, seeJefferson Highway (Oregon) ."The Jefferson Highway was an
automobile highway stretching through the centralUnited States fromNew Orleans, Louisiana , toWinnipeg, Manitoba ,Canada . The Jefferson Highway was replaced with the new numbered US Highway system in the late 1920s. Portions of the highway are still named Jefferson Highway, for example, the portions that run throughJefferson Parish, Louisiana ,East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana ,Osseo, Minnesota , andWadena, Minnesota .It was built in the 1910s as part of the
National Auto Trail system.The Jefferson Highway was inspired by the east-west
Lincoln Highway .It was nicknamed the "Palm to Pine Highway", for the varying types of trees found at either end.
The cities the highway passed on its route included
Alexandria, Louisiana ;Shreveport, Louisiana ;Marshall, Texas ;Muskogee, Oklahoma ;Baxter Springs, Kansas ;Paola, Kansas ;Kansas City, Missouri ;Saint Joseph, Missouri ;Des Moines, Iowa ;Ames, Iowa ;Mason City, Iowa ;Albert Lea, Minnesota ;Minneapolis, Minnesota ; andBemidji, Minnesota .Jefferson Lines , an intercity bus company, operates service from Texas to Winnipeg, and takes its name from the old Jefferson Highway.ee also
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National Auto Trail
*United States Highway system External links
* [http://maps.bc.ca/jeffhwy/jeffmap.htm Jefferson Highway Map]
* [http://www.marion.ohio-state.edu/fac/schul/trails/national/jefferson.html Jefferson Highway]
* [http://www.jeffersonlines.com/ Jefferson Lines home page]
* [http://www.morrisoncountyhistory.org/histpalmpine.html Palm to Pine]
* [http://www.lincolnhighwayassoc.org/iowa/newsletter/Paul's%20NL%20Archive/003/003.html Welcome to the Jefferson Highway] (Section of Iowa Lincoln Highway Association newsletter Summer/Fall 2000)
* [http://www.powersmuseum.com/about/jeffhwy2.html More on the Jefferson Highway] (Powers Museum, Carthage, Missouri)
* [http://reflections.mndigital.org/cdm4/item_viewer.php?CISOROOT=/mdt&CISOPTR=177&CISOBOX=1&REC=6 Jefferson Highway legal description within Minnesota] , filed with the Minnesota Department of Highways onAugust 9 ,1917
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