3-694: The Jackson Highway was an auto trail in the United States connecting Chicago and New Orleans via Nashville . It was named after General and U.S. President Andrew Jackson . The original concepts for the route and its name are credited to Alma Rittenberry of Birmingham, Alabama , member of the Birmingham Equal Suffrage Association, the Poetry Society of Alabama, and the United Daughters of
6-671: The Confederacy . She conceived of the route in 1911. Peter Lee Atherton was president of the Jackson Highway Project from its conception. U.S. Highway 31E in Kentucky approximately traces the Jackson Highway's historic route between Louisville and Nashville. Auto trail The system of auto trails was an informal network of marked routes that existed in the United States and Canada in
9-548: The early part of the 20th century. Marked with colored bands on utility poles , the trails were intended to help travellers in the early days of the automobile . Auto trails were usually marked and sometimes maintained by organizations of private individuals. Some, such as the Lincoln Highway , maintained by the Lincoln Highway Association, were well-known and well-organized, while others were
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