At 351 feet tall, it is the largest [unreinforced] concrete obelisk in the world, and the fifth tallest monument in the United States. The top four are St. Louis's Gateway Arch, 630 feet tall; San Jacinto (Texas) Monument, 570 feet (built to the peoples who created an independent country -- just like the Confederates); the Washington Monument, 555 feet; and the Perry's Victory and International Peace Memorial at Put in Bay, Ohio, which, at 352 feet, nudges its way past the Davis obelisk by a mere extra 12 inches. Fairview is also home to a "zero mile" marker for the Jefferson Davis Highway. While never officially sanctioned by the US Department of Transportation, and not listed on many maps, the United Daughters of the Confederacy conceived the JDH back in 1913 (one year after the Lincoln Highway was proposed) as a coast-to-coast road through the Southern capitals.