This geocache marks the South end of the Jefferson Highway that ran from Winnipeg in Canada to here in New Orleans.
The system of auto trails was an informal network of marked routes that existed in the United States and Canada in the early part of the 20th century. Marked with colored bands on utility poles, the trails were intended to help travellers in the early days of the automobile.
The Jefferson Highway was an automobile highway stretching through the central United States from New Orleans to Winnipeg, Manitoba in Canada. The Jefferson Highway was replaced with the new numbered US Highway system in the late 1920s. Portions of the highway are still named Jefferson Highway, for example: the portions that run through Jefferson Parish and East Baton Rouge Parish in Louisiana; Lees's Summit in Missouri; Osseo, Minnesota and Wadena, Minnesota.
It was built in the 1910s as part of the National Auto Trail system.
Named for President Thomas Jefferson and was inspired by the east–west Lincoln Highway, it was nicknamed the "Palm to Pine Highway", for the varying types of trees found at either end.
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