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Officially, Fairfax County doesn’t have a Lee Highway or Lee-Jackson Memorial Highway anymore, but months after the names were dropped, they can still be seen on street signs throughout both corridors. By the end of this month, that should no longer be the case — at least for smaller signs, the Fairfax County Department of
Lee Highway and Lee Jackson Memorial Highway will be renamed to their route number in Fairfax County as part of the county’s effort to strip names of Confederate generals from
Lee Highway and Lee Jackson Memorial Highway will be renamed to Route 29 and Route 50, respectively, in Fairfax County, Virginia.
Fairfax County can officially retire Lee Highway and Lee-Jackson Memorial Highway as its names for routes 29 and 50. The highways will be renamed after their route numbers effective July 5, the county announced today (Thursday). The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors voted on Sept. 13 to drop the highway names, which were homages to
Fairfax County took another step Tuesday toward changing the roads’ names to their route numbers.