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Jones Sausage Road probably wouldn't merit a mention on this site if not for the strange name and the associated double-takes while driving along I-40. (My grandfather, circa 1988: "Why do you have a road named after a sausage?")
The unusual name comes from, yes, a company that made sausages (and hot dogs), the Jesse Jones Sausage Company. The famously bright-red hot dogs, which were served for years at NC State's Reynolds Coliseum and are still served at Martinsville Speedway in southern Virginia, are manufactured at the ConAgra Foods plant just west of the I-40 interchange; through a series of mergers, Jesse Jones wound up as a subsidiary of ConAgra and a sister brand to Slim Jims, also manufactured at the same plant.
As far as the road itself is concerned, it's a garden-variety two lane road, with few noteworthy landmarks and not a ton of traffic. It parallels I-40 for essentially its entire length, so no widenings or reroutings are scheduled. One minor rerouting took place at its southern end in 2003, when Jones Sausage and White Oak roads were relocated about 1000 feet to the west to accommodate the White Oak Crossing shopping center. |
