Editing Interstate 16 (section)

===2000s===
Until 2000, the state of Georgia used the sequential interchange numbering system on all of its Interstate Highways. The first exit on each highway would begin with the number "1" and increase numerically with each exit. In 2000, the Georgia Department of Transportation switched to a mileage-based exit system, in which the exit number corresponded to the nearest milepost.<ref name="Jacksonville">{{cite news |url= http://jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/120199/met_1394766.html |title= Interstate Exit Signs to Get New Numbers in Georgia |first=Noelle |last=Phillips |work= [[The Florida Times-Union]] |date= December 1, 1999 |access-date= March 4, 2017}}</ref>

In 2001, the [[Georgia General Assembly]] passed a resolution to designate the '''Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange''' at the interchange with Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard in Savannah in honor of [[Earl Shinhoster]],<ref>{{cite web|author=House of Representatives|date=April 19, 2001|title=House Resolution 182|url=http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2001_02/fulltext/hr182.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20061002084410/http://www.legis.ga.gov/legis/2001_02/fulltext/hr182.htm|archive-date=October 2, 2006|access-date=February 15, 2008|publisher=[[Georgia General Assembly]]|location=Atlanta, GA}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|author=State Senate|date=April 19, 2001|title=Senate Resolution 6|url=http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2003_04/fulltext/sr6.htm|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120208021135/http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2003_04/fulltext/sr6.htm|archive-date=February 8, 2012|access-date=February 15, 2008|publisher=Georgia General Assembly|location=Atlanta, GA}}</ref> who was a [[African American|black]] [[civil rights]] activist. This interchange is located in the economic and cultural center for Black Savannah.<ref>{{cite encyclopedia |url= http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2734 |title= The Ralph Mark Gilbert Civil Rights Museum |encyclopedia= The New Georgia Encyclopedia |first= Charles J. |last= Elmore |date= April 26, 2004 |access-date= February 15, 2008 |publisher= Georgia Humanities Council and the [[University of Georgia Press]] |archive-date= October 11, 2007 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20071011111130/http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/nge/Article.jsp?id=h-2734 |url-status= dead }}</ref>

In 2003, the [[Georgia General Assembly]] passed a resolution to designate I-16 in honor of James L. Gillis Sr.,<ref>{{cite web |author= House of Representatives |url= http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2003_04/fulltext/hr88.htm |title= House Resolution 88 |location= Atlanta, GA |publisher= Georgia General Assembly |date= March 27, 2003 |access-date= February 15, 2008 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120324125042/http://www1.legis.ga.gov/legis/2003_04/fulltext/hr88.htm |archive-date= March 24, 2012 |url-status= dead }}</ref> a [[Democratic Party of the United States|Democrat]] who served as a [[Georgia House of Representatives|state representative]], [[Georgia State Senate|state senator]], and director of the [[Georgia Department of Transportation]], as the Jim Gillis Historic Savannah Parkway.{{cn|date=November 2024}} Gillis's sons, [[Hugh Gillis|Hugh]] and [[Jim L. Gillis Jr.|James Jr.]], also served as [[Democratic Party of the United States|Democratic]] state legislators. Hugh was a [[Georgia House of Representatives|state representative]] from 1941 to 1953 and a [[Georgia State Senate|state senator]] from 1953 to 1955 and from 1963 to 2005. James Jr. was a [[Georgia State Senate|state senator]] from 1945 to 1946.<ref>{{cite web |author= Staff |url=http://www.legis.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/peo_detail.pl?Leg=gass20 |publisher= Georgia General Assembly |title= Senator Hugh M. Gillis (D-SS 20) |date= February 2003 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20080919124918/http://www.legis.state.ga.us/cgi-bin/peo_detail.pl?Leg=gass20 |archive-date= September 19, 2008 |access-date= February 15, 2008}}</ref>