The route is rural and hilly in nature as it climbs the Blue Ridge Mountains to the North Carolina state line.

The entirety of the highway is part of the state Falling Waters Scenic Byway.

The crash killed five service members on their way from Meridian, Mississippi, to Donaldson Army Air Base in Greenville.

"We thought March 21, seventy-one (71) years to the day after the wreckage was found would be a good time to display and dedicate the site," Dyar said.

On March 21, 1943, a 15-year-old boy, Seab Crane was riding his horse along Moody Trail to visit his friends near the Fish Hatchery when his horse suddenly became "spooked" by an unknown foreign object on the riding trail.