Stafford County wants to change the name of Route 1, but leaders there would prefer a different name than what Delegate Joshua Cole (D-28, Fredericksburg, Stafford) proposes.
At a meeting of the Stafford County Board of Supervisors Tuesday, December 15, a leaders discussed a Cole's bill that will introduced into the Virginia General Assembly, which begins on January 13, 2021, that would remove the name of Jefferson Davis from Route 1 and rename the highway after the Loving Family, of Caroline County.
Richard and Mildred Loving were an interracial couple who, in 1967 won a landmark civil rights decision which ruled it unconstitutional for the state to ban interracial marriage. The case and the Loving family themselves were recently the subjects of the film, "Loving" which was released in 2016.
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