Texas News Jefferson Davis Highway: The Persistence Of A Confederate Memorial By Texas Standard Published July 1, 2020 at 2:00 PM CDT Twitter LinkedIn Email Your browser doesn’t support HTML5 audio This marker for the Jefferson Davis Memorial HIghway was removed from the campus of Texas State University in 2016.Bellerophon5685 /Wikimedia Commons CC BY-SA How parts of a highway were named and how that’s changing.