Jackson Highway

{{About|the historic auto trail|the 19th-century route connecting Nashville with New Orleans|Jackson's Military Road|Andrew Jackson Highway in North Carolina|U.S. Route 74}}

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{{short description|Auto trail connecting Chicago and New Orleans}}

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|terminus_a=New Orleans, LA

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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.

File:Jackson Highway map 1917.jpg

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 the Confederacy. She conceived of the route in 1911.{{cite web |publisher = Federal Highway Administration |url = https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/us231.cfm |title = U.S. 231—Indiana to Florida: How a Highway Grew |first = Richard |last = Weingroff |date = June 27, 2017 }}

Peter Lee Atherton was president of the Jackson Highway Project from its conception.{{cn|date=January 2020}}

U.S. Highway 31E in Kentucky approximately traces the Jackson Highway's historic route between Louisville and Nashville.{{cite web |url = http://www.trailsrus.com/hwy31/ |title = Take the Roads Less Traveled |website = Trails-R-Us: Historic Highways }}