Jefferson Highway

The Jefferson Hightway was the start of engine in North America a route that stretched from New Orleans in the U.S. state of Louisiana to the Canadian Winnipeg. As in the 1920s, the system of numbered highways was established, the old Jefferson Highway was partially integrated or replaced by new roads.

Today, parts of the old Jefferson Highway have been preserved partly in Jefferson Parish and East Baton Rouge Parish, Louisiana, and in the places Osseo and Wadena, Minnesota. The Jefferson Highway was built in the second decade of the 20th century and was in its north -south orientation, a response to the to-coast extending from coast Lincoln Highway.

The road was awarded ( from the palms to the pines road ) in allusion to the different tree species at its endpoints the nickname Palm to Pine Highway.

The cities that touches the Jefferson Highway on his way north, Alexandria and Shreveport, Louisiana; Marshall in Texas; Muskogee, Oklahoma; Baxter Springs and Paola, Kansas; Lee 's Summit, Kansas City and Saint Joseph, Missouri; Des Moines, Ames and Mason City, Iowa and Albert Lea, Bemidji and Minneapolis in Minnesota.