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Jun.22.2021
The Bankhead Highway, also known as the Broadway of America, stretched from Washington, DC to San Diego, California, and was one of the nation’s earliest transcontinental highways. In 1917, the Texas Highway Department designated the 850 miles of the Bankhead Highway within Texas as State Highway 1. The Bankhead Highway was originally named for John H. Bankhead, a senator from Alabama.
If you have a collection of old family pictures from the 1910s and 1920s, you may have a photograph of an early automobile with relatives dressed up in suits, hats, and dresses commemorating their first cross-country drive. Because of an increase in highway travel, new economic resources developed along the Bankhead Highway, including repair garages, gas stations, diners, cafes, tourist camps and courts, hotels, road markers, and bridges.
On Tuesday May 4 at noon, Susan Lanning, the director of the Audie Murphy American Cotton Museum, introduced the Lunch Break speaker, Greenville resident John Nelson.
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The Greenville Flags project has added hundreds of United States flags and crosses along the median of the Audie Murphy Overpass in downtown Greenville, which are expected to remain in place until July 4. Each cross carries the name of a Hunt County resident killed during World War I, World II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War,
There will be an assortment of activities planned across Greenville and Hunt County during the upcoming Memorial Day weekend.
⢠The Greenville Flags project has added hundreds of United States flags and crosses along the median of the Audie Murphy Overpass in downtown Greenville, which are expected to remain in place until July 4. Each cross carries the name of a Hunt County resident killed during World War I, World II, the Korean War or the Vietnam War, who were identified with assistance from the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum.
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Nadine Murphy Lokey, sister of the late Audie Murphy, received a bouquet of flowers this morning from actor Michael Dante, who was in Apache Rifles and Arizona Raiders with Murphy. Brad Kellar | Herald-Banner
A celebration of the life of Audie Murphy, the Hunt County native who went on to become the most decorated American soldier of World War II will continue this afternoon during the 25th annual Audie Murphy Day celebration.
The Fletcher Warren Civic Center was the location for this morningâs events in connection with Audie Murphy Day, with activities moving this afternoon to the Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum, 600 I-30 East in Greenville.