Official highway trail registration form 116, recording and approving the highway trail that started from "So. line of Freeborn Co. on St Road # 7, and thence via N. + Nwly (Northwesterly) thru cities and villages as noted below and terminating at N. line of Kittson at St. Vincent" and known as Jefferson Highway. Cities and villages on Jefferson Highway include Albert Lea, Owatonna, Faribault, Northfield, St. Paul, Minneapolis, Anoka, Elk River, St. Cloud, Little Falls, Staples, Wadena, Park Rapids, Bemidji, Bagley, Red Lake Falls, Thief River Falls, Fulda, Bronson, Hallock and St. Vincent. Application was submitted by the Jefferson Highway Association on the 9th day of August 1917 and approved on the 10th day of September 1917. Form features an image of a trail marker that has blue background with white stripe and the letters J and H joined together in the center. It is signed by Commissioner of Highways Charles M. Babcock.