Rockwell, Sheffield and Hampton part of highway history
This past summer marked the 100-year anniversary of the event that added Rockwell, Sheffield and Hampton to the first ever route across country from north to south. The new highway would span from Winnipeg, Canada all the way down to New Orleans, La.
In the summer of 1916, after months of lobbying and planning, Edwin T. Meredith, a well-known Des Moines publisher, presided over a newly formed organization called the Jefferson Highway Association (JHA).
The group was tasked with mapping out the “Pine to Palms Highway,” named the Jefferson Highway, and was a 2,300 mile trek that was to be from pines to palms.
It would start in Winnipeg and head south through Minnesota and go straight across Iowa, with stops in Rockwell, Sheffield, Chapin and Hampton.
Read the full article in the September 22 edition of the papers.
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