{"nrhp_refnum":"06000748","name":"Grays, Elliott, Marker-Jefferson Davis Highway","other_names":["127-6150-0002"],"category":"object","location":{"address":"Jct. of Harwood St., Ingram Ave., and Jefferson Davis Hwy.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond (Independent City)","county":"Richmond (city and county)","state":"VA","lat":37.50518126700007,"lon":-77.44650775399998,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2006-08-31","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A 1929 inscribed gray granite commemorative marker on a small triangular traffic island at Harwood Street, Ingram Avenue and Jefferson Davis Highway (US 1) in South Richmond, Virginia, erected by the Elliott Grays Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.","why_significant":"It is one of sixteen United Daughters of the Confederacy markers placed along Jefferson Davis Highway in Virginia, and it is tied to the era of privately promoted \"named highways\" and to a major undertaking by a women's organization. It meets Criterion A in Transportation and Social History and Criteria Consideration F as a commemorative property. The Keeper amended the form to classify it as an object and to begin the period of significance in 1929.","narrative":"A gray granite slab on a small triangular traffic island in South Richmond, this marker stands where Harwood Street, Ingram Avenue and Jefferson Davis Highway (US 1) meet. Erected in 1929 by the Elliott Grays Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, it measures 47 inches tall, 25 wide and 12 thick, and sits on a concrete base. A carved Southern Cross of Honor appears above the inscription, a feature found on none of the other fifteen Jefferson Davis Highway markers in Virginia. The text notes a memorial tree planted in soil from battlefields on the site of Battery 17 of Richmond's inner defenses; that tree has since died. The marker belongs to a group of sixteen erected in Virginia between 1927 and 1946 as part of a national memorial highway project begun by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in 1913. It was listed for its link to the era of named highways and for its place in a women's organization's commemorative effort. The chapter still maintains it.","period_of_significance":"1929-1947","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Marker remains in its original location and is maintained by the Elliott Grays Chapter UDC; the memorial tree mentioned in its inscription died many years ago.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:02.847154-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/34/6789/41678934/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/06000748.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000748/a722f149e9-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/06000748/a722f149e9-1600.webp","licence":"Public domain","author":"Nyttend","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elliott_Grays_Marker.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Nyttend</a>, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elliott_Grays_Marker.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678934","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elliott_Grays_Marker-Jefferson_Davis_Highway","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q16891855"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/richmond/grays-elliott-marker-jefferson-davis-highway-06000748/"}