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Bookmark or Share- Dixie Highway - WikipediaDixie 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.
- Georgia’s Dixie Highway? - Georgia Historical SocietyDixie Highway was heralded as an avenue to allow snowbirds to escape the winter cold by vacationing in the South–especially Florida. Because of Georgia’s location, both routes of the Dixie Highway extended through it.
- Map of the Dixie Highway. | Library of CongressThis map, issued by the NHA in 1915, shows the Dixie Highway, proposed by the Dixie Highway Association and endorsed by the NHA. The projected route runs from Mackinaw City, Michigan, to Miami, Florida.
- Dixie Highway Maps - Two Lane TravelerIndiana includes two different sections of the Dixie Highway. The continuation of the Chicago to Dayton connector runs west to east from the Illinois state line through Indianapolis and on to the Ohio state line. The Western Division of the highway travels from South Bend south to New Albany, across the Ohio River from Louisville, KY. Ohio
- Dixie Highway - New Georgia EncyclopediaThe Dixie Highway, a network of roads connecting Canada to Florida in the early decades of the twentieth century, was an ambitious undertaking to build the nation’s first north–south paved interstate highway.
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