Sign on the Bankhead Highway running through Alabama (U.S. Highway 78).
The Bankhead Highway connected Washington, D.C., to San Diego, California. It was named for Senator John Hollis Bankhead of Alabama, who had sponsored the Federal Aid Road Act of 1916. Later several stretches of the highway in northwest Alabama were renamed for his son, United States Representative...
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Alabama Department of Archives and History
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| Online Access: | http://cdm17217.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/photo/id/7784 |