Southern Horror #46

Southern Horror #46 (The Carolinas 14 of 35) by Kris Graves A Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway Marker in Columbia, SC was installed November 1, 1923 with funding from the City of Columbia and the United Daughters of the Confederacy. The Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway was begun in 1913 and eventually stretched 4,600 continuous miles. The highway marker was moved to the South Carolina State House in 1949 when Highway US-1 replaced a stretch of the original Highway. While this was going on, I was commissioned by National Geographic to photograph memorials, monuments, and sites of the antebellum South. My friend Marshall Scheuttle and I drove approximately 4000 miles across eight southern st...View all