Talk:List of memorials to Jefferson Davis

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I have started this page because I felt that this information was taking up too much room on the Jefferson Davis page. --Coingeek (talk) 01:05, 16 September 2009 (UTC)

14th Amendment
Why is the Fourteenth Amendment listed? That's not a monument. It's a constitutional amendment. Emperor001 (talk) 15:59, 28 February 2013 (UTC)

Edit Warring
Someone appears to be edit warring and wanted to undo links on where cites are located, this is most disruptive.C. W. Gilmore (talk) 17:09, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * As discussed elsewhere, your editing pattern is widely seen as inappropriate WP:COATracking, with discussions ongoing at the racking aside, if this belongs here, the word "near" needs to be used rather than "in". This thing is a thing of I-5, not of the City of Ridgefield, WA, much like the Uncle Sam billboard is. Anmccaff (talk) 19:07, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * As is stated in the article, it is not within either city, but resides between them and for reference, it is in the southwestern corner of Washington State. This are geographical references to the area, not a link to any city specifically.  You are taking your little edit warring too far.C. W. Gilmore (talk) 19:14, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * The only reason it does not link directly is because I removed the link. Anmccaff (talk) 19:36, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * You removed the links to Vancouver, Ridgefield, and to Washington State. No, the article states:  "park" alongside Interstate 5 between Vancouver and Ridgefield,..."  Your removal of the links just made it harder for people to locate the area, this is disruptive and not helpful.  Please stop. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 19:48, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Perhaps we should open another RFC? Anmccaff (talk) 19:54, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * You may do as you please, just as you have done thus far. C. W. Gilmore (talk) 19:55, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Links to localities
I don't see a reason to remove the wikilinks. There's also (probably better known) Vancouver, BC, and the links are generally helpful: diff. K.e.coffman (talk) 20:05, 5 November 2017 (UTC)

Jefferson Davis Memorial Highway section?
Should there be a separate sub-section for the Jefferson Davis Highway that could then include many of the items in the Miscellaneous section now? Thoughts?C. W. Gilmore (talk) 20:21, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Yep, that would be entirely appropriate...if it were the only substantial coverage. Anmccaff (talk) 20:32, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Please let us know where else it is covered in depth within Wiki? Thanks C. W. Gilmore (talk) 20:40, 5 November 2017 (UTC)
 * Anything larger than a couple of short paragraphs would be undue. Its now in that form, roughly, at:

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 * Stone markers at both ends of the state designating Highway 99 the "Jeff Davis Highway" were erected in the 1930s by the Daughters of the Confederacy, with State approval. They were removed in 2002 through the efforts of State Representative Hans Dunshee and city officials, and after it was discovered that the highway was never officially designated to memorialize Davis by the State. Markers are now on Sons of Confederate Veterans owned "Jefferson Davis Park" in Ridgefield right beside I-5. Clark County Historic Preservation Commission in attendance — Mark Pelletier, Sarah Fox, Sean Denniston, Rob Heaney and Alex Gall — all voted to remove the granite highway marker from its local heritage list on October 2, 2017.

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n 1998, officials of the city of Vancouver removed a marker of the Jefferson Davis Highway and placed it in a cemetery shed in an action that several years later became controversial.[26] The marker was subsequently moved twice, and eventually was placed alongside Interstate 5 on private land purchased for the purpose of giving the marker a permanent home.[27][28]

The marker stone in Blaine, Washington, was removed in 2002 through the efforts of State Representative Hans Dunshee and city officials, and after it was discovered that the highway was never officially designated to memorialize Davis by the state.[29] Both markers now rest, in the Sons of Confederate Veterans owned "Jefferson Davis Park" in Ridgefield right beside I-5.[30] In 2002, the Washington House of Representatives unanimously approved a bill that would have removed Davis' name from the road. However, a committee of the state's Senate subsequently killed the proposal.[31][32]

In March 2016, the Washington State Legislature unanimously passed a joint memorial that asked the state transportation commission to designate the road as the "William P. Stewart Memorial Highway" to honor an African-American volunteer during the Civil War who later became a pioneer of the town and city of Snohomish.[33] In May 2016, the transportation commission agreed to the renaming.[34]

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Ridgefield, Washington: "Jefferson Davis Park" (2007) established by SCV to hold the Jeff Davis Highway markers from Blaine and Vancouver[749][750] (note, btw, the factual inaccuracy.)

Only one of those is a mere mention; all but one of them should be. Anmccaff (talk) 20:59, 5 November 2017 (UTC)


 * Note that all place the Park as a sub-event to the Highway, not a story unto it's self so it is hard for someone watching [ to understand why the death threats or any of the controversy that surrounds the Park to this day. You get bits of it, but not the complete story which is a lot more complex. [[User:C. W. Gilmore|C. W. Gilmore]] (talk) 21:21, 5 November 2017 (UTC)