What is the Wright Bros. Memorial Highway?
State transportation department spokeswoman Christine Myers provided the following response:
The "Wright Brothers Memorial Highway" became part of Ohio Revised Code in September 1973. While the legislation was passed, the signs were not placed along state Route 4. When this was discovered, the Ohio Department of Transportation ordered and placed the signs in 2013.
From the Ohio Revised Code:
5533.14 Wright Brothers memorial highway.
The road known as state Route No. 4 of this state, running in a northeasterly and southwesterly direction, commencing at the city of Cincinnati in Wyoming, Hamilton county, and extending through the counties of Butler, Montgomery, Greene, Clark, Champaign, Union, Delaware, Marion, Crawford, Seneca, Huron, and Erie to the city of Sandusky, and through the municipal corporations of Hamilton, Middletown, Dayton, Springfield, Mechanicsburg, Marysville, Marion, and Bucyrus, shall be known as "Wright Brothers Memorial Highway."
The director of transportation shall erect suitable uniform markers upon a background of white enamel bearing in black enamel an outline replica of the first Wright plane and the words "Wright Brothers Memorial Highway."
Effective Date: 09-28-1973