{"nrhp_refnum":"07000765","name":"Brook Road Marker, Jefferson Davis Highway","other_names":["Vdhr #127-6150-0008"],"category":"structure","location":{"address":"0.2 mi. E of jct. of Hillard and Brook Rds.","address_restricted":false,"city":"Richmond","county":"Henrico County","state":"VA","lat":37.617088178000074,"lon":-77.34388587399997,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"2007-07-24","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Transportation","Social History"],"significance_levels":["state"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A granite boulder marker with two bronze plaques in the grassy median of Brook Road (U.S. Route 1) in Henrico County, Virginia, just north of Richmond. It was erected June 3, 1927 by five Richmond-area chapters of the United Daughters of the Confederacy.","why_significant":"It was the first of sixteen markers placed in Virginia along the Jefferson Davis Highway, a memorial route promoted by the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The nomination finds it significant under Criterion A in Transportation and Social History, tied to the era of privately named highways and to a notable achievement by a women's organization. It retains integrity of location, design, materials and association.","narrative":"Set in the grassy median of Brook Road (U.S. Route 1) in Henrico County, just north of Richmond, this memorial is a gray granite boulder with rough-cut edges, about 42 inches tall, resting on a low concrete base. One bronze plaque on a sloped upper face reads \"Jefferson Davis Highway Virginia,\" and a second names the five Richmond-area United Daughters of the Confederacy chapters that erected it on June 3, 1927. It was the first of sixteen such markers placed in Virginia between 1927 and 1947 along the Jefferson Davis Highway, a cross-country memorial route promoted by the organization beginning in 1913. Its listing rests on its link to the era of privately named highways and on its role as a major undertaking by a women's organization. The marker has kept its original location, design and materials, and a local chapter still maintains it. Civil War fortifications and Brook Hill lie nearby.","period_of_significance":"1913-1947","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":null,"criteria":["A"],"status_note":"Still standing in its original location in the Brook Road median; maintained by a local United Daughters of the Confederacy chapter.","vacant_flag":null,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:52:03.318012-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/opastorage/live/27/6787/41678727/content/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_VA/07000765.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000765/77781f718a-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/07000765/77781f718a-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Crazyale","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brook_Road_Marker.JPG\" rel=\"noopener\">Crazyale</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Brook_Road_Marker.JPG"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/41678727","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brook_Road_Marker,_Jefferson_Davis_Highway","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q4974355"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/virginia/henrico-county/brook-road-marker-jefferson-davis-highway-07000765/"}