Fredericksburg hears case for renaming Jefferson Davis Highway (VA)
Posted: Wednesday, October 26, 2016 8:25 pm
By Cathy Jett The (Fredericksburg) Free Lance-Star
Should Fredericksburg City Council change the name of the stretch of U.S. 1 that runs through Fredericksburg — or let it remain Jefferson Davis Highway? ...
Eric Bonds of the University of Mary Washington and two students in his political sociology class said the highway should be renamed ...
Virginia’s General Assembly voted in 1922 to designate U.S. 1 in Virginia as Jefferson Davis Highway . Other southern states along the East Coast highway took similar honorary steps.
The name, due to its associations with the Confederacy and slavery, has come under fire in other localities, including Alexandria, where the city council voted last month to remove Davis’ name from its stretch of U.S. 1.
http://www.roanoke.com/news/fredericksburg-hears-case-for-renaming-jefferson-davis-highway/article_75bd7c06-ea88-5de6-8418-9e5194df5a5d.html
