Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway

The Jefferson Davis Highway was a Lost Cause monument in the shape of a road: a United Daughters of the Confederacy project, dated to 1913, that named a transcontinental route for the president of a government founded to preserve slavery. It may never have existed as the UDC intended, and in the 1920s the Bureau of Public Roads found no route matching its description. In Mississippi one marker stands at Beauvoir, Davis's last home in Biloxi. Since 2017 plaques have come down in San Diego and Hornbrook, and Virginia renamed its remaining stretches Emancipation Highway in 2022.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Winona: Fannie Lou Hamer and the Montgomery County Jail — 0.3 mi
  Two Freedom Trail stops in Winona for 9 June 1963, when Fannie Lou Hamer and other voting-rights workers were arrested at the bus depot and beaten in the Montgomery County Jail.
• Carroll County Courthouse — 11 mi
  The courthouse in Carrollton where, on 17 March 1886, armed white men fired into a courtroom and killed about two dozen Black people, and no one was ever charged.
• Grenada Freedom Movement Marker — 21 mi
  The Mississippi Freedom Trail marker at Line and Green streets for the 1966 Grenada movement, when Black children entering white schools were beaten by a mob and 13 white men were arrested.

More markers nearby

• Pops Staples — 0.3 mi
• George A. McLean — 0.4 mi
• Ensign William Devotie Billingsley — 0.6 mi
• Fannie Lou Hamer — 10 mi