Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1916 — PICK JACKSON HIGHWAY ROUTE [ARTICLE]

PICK JACKSON HIGHWAY ROUTE

Louisville, November 20.—Roads leading from Nashville, Tennessee, through Florence, Alabama, Columbus, Meridian and Hattiesburg, Mississippi, were officially designated late today as a part of the Jackson highway, at a meeting here of the board of directors of the Jackson Highway association. The selection was made only after a prolonged debate and in the face of determined opposition from advocates of a route leading southward from Nashville, either through Decatur or Huntsville, Alabama, to Birmingham, and thence to New Orleans.