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Dogwood Planted Along Roadsides

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  • Alternative Title:
    Blue Star Drive Planned as Memorial for Service People ; Slopes Flattened or Stabilized with Trees
  • Corporate Creators:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Contributors:
    Weingroff, Richard F.
  • Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Series:
    FHWA Highway History Website Articles
  • Resource Type:
    Web Document
  • Right Statement:
    Public Domain
  • Geographical Coverage:
    United States;New Jersey
  • Corporate Publisher:
    United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
  • Abstract:
    An article in the September 1946 issue of Contractors and Engineers Monthly described the original Blue Star planting project in New Jersey: Blue Star Drive Planned as Memorial for Service People; Slopes Flattened or Stabilized With Trees, Living tribute to service men and women of New Jersey advanced further this spring when over 6,000 flowering-dogwood trees were planted along U.S. 22, important east-west cross-state highway. Two sections of the artery, known as the Blue Star Drive, have been selected as a permanent memorial. But eventually, as many dogwoods will line the four-lane highway as there were men and women from New Jersey in the armed forces during World War II.
  • Content Notes:
    The original format of this document was an active HTML page(s) located under https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/infrastructure/history.cfm. The Federal Highway Administration converted the HTML page(s) into an Adobe® Acrobat® PDF file to preserve and support reuse of the information it contained. The intellectual content of this PDF is an authentic capture of the original HTML file. Hyperlinks and other functions of the HTML webpage may have been lost, and this version of the content may not fully work with screen reading software.
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    PDF
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    urn:sha-512:4fc47a10ff038defe906bcf399881b9e4064650c3f07f149333f22133564a543489acabc63c8f38138d47db736fbb1c0f5163ee43879354ac009383963b336a8
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