Ridgefield, Washington - Jefferson Davis's Wayward Highway Marker
- Address:
- NW Maplecrest Rd, Ridgefield, WA
- Directions:
- I-5 exit 14, east on Pioneer St., cross freeway, veer right and then left. Turn left onto 10th Ave., drive south one mile, turn right into Carty Rd, cross back over freeway, quick right onto Maplecrest. Monument will be on the left.
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Ridgefield, Washington - Jefferson Davis Park Small quarter-acre park built as a permanent location for the Jefferson Davis Highway marker that was originally placed nearby in 1939, and that the City of Vancouver removed in 2005. It's still a work-in-progress, but all construction will be complete by the date of the official opening and dedication on April 27, 2008. [Brent Jacobs, 02/09/2008]
Ridgefield, Washington - The South's Road Marker Shall Rise Again
Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States of America -- so why is a road marker dedicated to him all the way up in Vancouver, Washington? That was the question asked by the Vancouver city council in 1998. Finding no answer to its liking, the council voted to remove the marker, installed sixty years earlier by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).... [04/07/2007] Complete News Story
Jefferson Davis was president of the Confederate States of America -- so why is a road marker dedicated to him all the way up in Vancouver, Washington? That was the question asked by the Vancouver city council in 1998. Finding no answer to its liking, the council voted to remove the marker, installed sixty years earlier by the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC).... [04/07/2007] Complete News Story
Nearby Offbeat Places
- Rival Birthplace of U-Haul, Ridgefield, WA - 2 mi.
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