Fun Facts

• You can travel the entire 2300 miles of the Jefferson Highway in the same time zone (Central).

• Stringtown, Oklahoma has 2 streets named, Reba McEntire.

• Jesse James lived and died in a house at 36th and Frederick Avenue, St. Joseph Missouri.

• The JH runs through Denison, Texas which is the birthplace of President, Dwight Eisenhower.

• There is an old Pine to Palm ferry still working at Melville, Louisiana. The hours of operation are 5 to 8am and 4 to 9pm, closed Saturday and Sunday. Time your trip so you can drive on real original Jefferson Highway between Melville and Furdoche. 

• According to local lore the JH route from Melville, LA to Furdoche is the road that was used to shoot scenes for the movie Easy Rider.

• A large portion of the JH has disappeared under a lake behind a dam near Eufaula OK. The lake’s name is Eufaula Lake. Several portions of the Highway are gone to the lake and some of the remaining pieces have been abandoned. There are suggested detours shown on our maps.
  The following bit of history is thanks to http://www.oklahomagenealogy.com/mcintosh/eufaula.htm#Highway
       When the Jefferson Highway was first located through Eufaula the only way of crossing the South Canadian River, about four miles below the town, was by means of a rather uncertain ferry, and the citizens of Eufaula, feeling the great need of a good bridge across the river, incorporated- The Jefferson Highway Bridge Company, and at a cost of almost a quarter of a million dollars, built the present splendid structure of steel and concrete, forty feet above low water; affording a 365 day crossing throughout the year. Already the traffic over this bridge, which was opened for use April 21, 1920, bids fair to justify the large expenditure upon it and it is rapidly becoming one of the notable landmarks of the neighborhood.

• Wyatt Earp lived and was the constable in Lamar, Missouri around 1870.

• Carthage, MO is the birthplace of Marlin Perkins of Mutual of Omaha's "Wild Kingdom" fame.

• Merle Haggard's song "Okee from Muscogee" is a Jefferson Highway song because Muscogee, OK is on the Jefferson Highway.

• Winnipeg, Manitoba is Mile 0 of the Pine to Palm Highway and the cradle of Jazz in Canada. Jazz has been a part of the Winnipeg life style for decades and it is celebrated in theatres, festivals and performing arts concerts year round. 
• Winnipeg is marking the 10th anniversary of a major flood of the Red River (not the same one that runs near New Orleans) that spawned all the same images that we have seen from Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans. 
• Neil Young of Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young is from Winnipeg. Young had a hit called Southern Man which caused Lynard Skynard to respond with their biggest song, Sweet Home Alabama.
• The band The Guess Who is from Winnipeg and they were responsible for such hits as No sugar tonight, Clap for the Wolfman and their biggest of all American Woman.
• Another band Bachman, Turner Overdrive also came from Winnipeg with hits such as Takin' Care of Business.
• If you are American and using an online pharmacy in Canada it is probably in Winnipeg.
• The most popular drink in New Orleans is Crown Royal Canadian Whiskey which just happens to be manufactured and distilled in a little town called Gimli just north of Winnipeg, the most northerly town on my map.