Image Credit: David Seibert

Year Erected:1956

Marker Text: Spalding was one of the first counties on the old Dixie Highway (which ran from Chicago to Miami), and the first in Georgia, with a concrete highway running from county line to county line. A demonstration strip completed January 30, 1919, from the city limits of Griffin to and along the front of the Georgia Experiment Station, was the first paving outside a city on the route. That same year the people of Spalding County voted a bond issue of $350,000 to complete the paved highway to the county lines in both directions. Dedication for the completed highway was held in September 1920. County Commissioners were Chairman J. E. Wallace, C. L. Elder, and W. A. Jester.