Dixie Highway was a United States auto trail first planned in 1914 to connect the Midwest with the South. It was part of a system and was expanded from an earlier Miami to Montreal highway. The final system is better understood as a network of connected paved roads, rather than one single highway. It was constructed and expanded from 1915 to 1929.
Dixie Highway
Postcard image of Dixie Highway in St. Johns County, Florida. This section was previously part of the older John Anderson Highway.
Brick section of the Dixie Highway
Monuments like this, and even arches over the roadway, were put up by cities and counties as they built sections of highways including the Dixie Highway.
The system of auto trails was an informal network of marked routes that existed in the United States and Canada in 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.
Image: Cram Transcontinental Highways of the United States 1922 UTA (left)
Image: Cram Transcontinental Highways of the United States 1922 UTA (right)