Memorial stone "Refugee Road" Memorial site

Daugamale parish, Kalniņi. On the Ķekava - Jaunjelgava road (P85), on the left.

During World War I, the so-called Refugee Road led through Daugamale. In 1915, when German troops entered, refugees from Kurzeme and Zemgale crossed the Daugava to Riga, Vidzeme and Russia. In the countryside of Latvia, the refugee movement covered hundreds of thousands of people. A total of at least 850,000 Latvian residents went as refugees. The exact number of refugees is unknown, as a large number of refugees were not counted. Refugees went not only to Vidzeme and Latgali, but a large part traveled further to Russia, mainly to its big cities. Along the way, they usually lost all their livestock, including livestock, which either died on the way or were bought off by the army for a pittance.

1991 the road is marked by the stone of the sculptor Vilnius Titan laid by the Culture Foundation. It has the inscription "Refugees' road", and on the stone there are, as it were, footprints of small bare feet leading away from home.