Two signs proclaiming US-6 to be the Grand Army of the Republic are still standing at the Colorado and Nevada entrances to Utah. Evidently, there are no others.
The Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) was organized by Union veterans after the war and was succeeded by the Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War (SUVCW). In the 1930s, the SUVCW asked every state along US-6 to name their part of the road the Grand Army of the Republic Highway. By 1953, California became the last to do so.
Utah named its portion that name in March 1949 and allocated $150 for road signage.
Eric Richhart's request for road signs was turned down by UDOT because they were unable to find anything in the records about the name. In 1963, there had been a recodification of the roads in Utah and GAR Highway had been dropped.
Mike Dmitrich served in the legislature for 40 years and traveled this route back and forth from his home constituency.
Richhart is willing to accept the road bearing both names as long as GAR gets top billing.
Neither sign is going up right now as no money has been appropriated.
As a member of the SCV, I am hoping they do reinstate the GAR Highway. It was an honorable and great organization.
Can't We All Just Get Along? --RoadDog
RoadDog's RoadLog Blog: Being my travels down those great two lane highways of this nation as well as news I learn about them from media sources. Since I'm also very interested in historic preservation, there will be a lot of that as well.
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