Lee Highway

The Lee Highway was a national auto trail in the United States, connecting New York City[dubious – discuss] and San Francisco, California, via the South and Southwest.

In 1919, Dr. Samuel Myrtle Johnson of Roswell, New Mexico, wrote to David Carlisle Humphreys of Lexington, Virginia, proposing a transcontinental auto trail that would connect Southern states as the 1913 Lincoln Highway had done in the north.

[1] In January 1922, Johnson wrote in The New York Times, "Although only twenty months old, the work of the Lee Highway Association has already progressed so steadily that completion of the transcontinental route is anticipated within three years.

Father had the title of Director General and received a good salary and liberal expense money.The national project echoed efforts in cities and towns across the South to venerate Lee and other Confederate leaders during the nadir of American race relations.

Alice Gerrard and Hazel Dickens recorded a rendition of Lee Highway Blues on the Smithsonian Folkways album Pioneering Women of Bluegrass,[10] as did Chubby Wise.