Southern good roads . ikes running north and south and connect these turn- pikes to form the highwaj. Tliis the work will bedone by the county and state, the roads being undercontrol of the different states. Federal aid to help themin their project is not objected to by the Daughters of1812, but they think they will get the Jackson highwayquicker by bond issues. Of the eight national highways proposed in congress,not one was to Jackson, and not one connected thelakes and gulf coming through Louisville and Nash-ville. So the Daughters of 1812 proposed to fill in themissing link, thereby memoiia
Southern good roads . ikes running north and south and connect these turn- pikes to form the highwaj. Tliis the work will bedone by the county and state, the roads being undercontrol of the different states. Federal aid to help themin their project is not objected to by the Daughters of1812, but they think they will get the Jackson highwayquicker by bond issues. Of the eight national highways proposed in congress,not one was to Jackson, and not one connected thelakes and gulf coming through Louisville and Nash-ville. So the Daughters of 1812 proposed to fill in themissing link, thereby memoiializing the name of An-drew Jackson. The Lakes to the Gulf Highway association, of whichMr. Pendleton Beckley, city attorney of Louisville, ispresident, which was organized in November, 1912, at]\Iammotli Cave, is almost identically the same routeas the Jackson highway, and it has been proposed thatthe two go together. ]\Iany miles of the Jackson highway are alreadyliuilt. One can go all the way from Louisville to Chi-. Gravel Road Near Montgomery, Alabama cago in an automobile. Through Illinois, Indiana, Ken-tucky. Tennessee and Alabama the Jackson highwaywill pass some of the finest farming lands in this coun-try. JIany beautiful country homes are along theroute, and the building of this continuous highway willmean much to the men and women on the farms, mak-ing life more attractive to them and eliminating muchof the forced and tiresome drudgery. ]\Iiss Rittenberry has given much of her time andthought to this project since it was publicly fact, she originated the idea of the Jackson high-way. She has traveled extensively in its interest, andonly a few months since she made a second trip alongthe route of this proposed highway, paying her ex-penses to Chicago and back by selling a copyrightedpicture post card of Andrew Jackson and the Hermit-age. Miss Rittenberry is well informed about the oldroads and trails of America, and is cognizant of almosteverything that ev
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