Route 1 is no longer called Jefferson Davis Highway, but other Virginia roads still bear Confederate names
OH THE HORROR! But Don’t worry. Your friendly neighborhood ‘activists’ are working hard to change this using YOUR money.
Frequent travelers between Washington, DC and Richmond know the scenic landscape of US Route 1, which offers respite from often heavy traffic on Interstate 95. In 1922, the Virginia General Assembly named the road Jefferson Davis Highway to honor the president of the Confederate States of America.
Like so many 20th century monuments, road names, school names, and other memorials to the Confederate “lost cause,” the campaign to designate a coast-to-coast Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway was organized by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The full route stretched from Washington, DC, across the southern US, ending in San Diego.
In Virginia, lawmakers embraced the name during a time when Jim Crow laws were at their peak and lynching was common throughout the state.
It took decades of activism to get the Confederate president’s name removed—the last signs along Route 1 bearing Davis’s name were taken down in late 2021. But there are still numerous other roads throughout Virginia with Confederate names, in addition to thousands of statues, monuments, and school names honoring…
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