Although this post card has no date stamp, the Auburn Greeting Card Company, in operation between 1929 and 1933, produced it.
West Main Street is identified as the Dixie Highway. More accurately it would be called part of the Dixie Highway system, which ran from Michigan to Florida and at places had parallel routes. In Monroe county, the Dixie Highway today is Highway 41, running from Barnesville to Macon. The designation, Dixie Highway, resulted from the publicity and lobbying of the Dixie Highway Association, a group of businessmen from many states along its routes who were concerned with improved roads and economic development, especially tourist development.
Although it is not clear from this photograph, by 1926 the Dixie Highway from Forsyth to Barnesville had been paved with two nine-foot lanes.
Today Dixie Highway is gone from local usage. The name is, however, preserved on Interstate 75 south of Atlanta where Highway 41 crosses I-75. There the exit is named “Old Dixie Highway.”
