Brook Road Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway

Brook Road Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
Virginia Landmarks Register
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Location	0.2 mi. E of jct. of Hillard and Brook Rds., Richmond, Virginia
Coordinates	37°36′51″N77°27′25″W / 37.614203°N 77.457078°W / 37.614203; -77.457078
Area	less than one acre
Built	1927
MPS	UDC Commemorative Highway Markers along the Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia
NRHP reference No.	07000765 [1]
VLR No.	043-5329
Significant dates
Added to NRHP	July 24, 2007
Designated VLR	June 6, 2007 [2]

The Brook Road Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway is a commemorative marker on the Jefferson Davis Highway, in Henrico County, Virginia, outside of Richmond, Virginia. ^[1] The Jefferson Davis Highway was conceived and marked by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, as a counter to the Lincoln Highway in the north, during 1913–1925. In that era, named highways were being marked as automobile travel increased, and the advent of numbered highways eventually loomed. ^{[3] : 14} The marker was placed in North Richmond Brook Road, south of Hilliard Road, in 1927. It is one of the earliest, out of 16, that were placed to mark the highway in Virginia by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. ^{[3] : 7} It is a 42-inch-high (1.1 m) gray granite stone, with a slanted top, and a bronze plaque. ^{[3] : 12}

It is one of a number of markers studied in a National Park Service study, UDC Commemorative Highway Markers along the Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia. ^[3]

References

1. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. March 13, 2009.
2. "Virginia Landmarks Register". Virginia Department of Historic Resources. Archived from the original on September 21, 2013. Retrieved June 5, 2013.
3. Ruth D. Snead and Virginia Department of Historic Resources staff (2004). "UDC Commemorative Highway Markers along the Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia". National Park Service.