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The Dixie Highway-Hastings, Espanola and Bunnell Road (also known as County Road 13 or the Old Brick Road) is a historic section of Old Dixie Highway in Florida. It is located roughly between Espanola (in Flagler County ) and CR 204 southeast of Hastings near Flagler Estates (in St. Johns County ).
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From the southern terminus of Interstate 95 in Miami to the Overseas Highway in Key Largo, U.S. Route 1 is known as Dixie Highway. In the 1920s, the United Daughters of the Confederacy erected granite pillars with bronze plaques along the highway to honor General Robert E. Lee.
The Old Dixie Highway was once a vital transportation artery, connecting towns and communities across Florida in the early 20th century. This two-lane road, which predates the famous U.S. Route 1, played a pivotal role in shaping the state’s development.
Enjoy an Afternoon with Florida History with Senior Curator of Education and History, Zach Zacharias, and learn about one of the earliest automobile roads in Florida, the Old Dixie Highway.
The Old Dixie Highway was one of the earliest highways in the US, whose success inspired the massive expansion and renovation of America’s roadways. In partnership with the Good Roads Movement, advocates for the Old Dixie Highway fought for cleaner, smoother, and longer roads to crisscross the country. While the highway itself was short-lived ...
Historians credit the Dixie Highway with building cities like Miami Beach, West Palm Beach and Hialeah, though it’s important to remember that by then, what’s known as the Great Migration, the exodus of six million Black people from Southern states to the North and West, had already begun.
The Dixie Highway was the brainchild of Carl Graham Fisher, the same entrepreneur who helped develop Miami Beach in the early 1910s. Fisher believed northerners would pay top dollar for lots in South Florida, but he recognized the need for a reliable highway to funnel his customers southward.
Before the U.S. had a national highway system (courtesy of President Eisenhower in 1956), the “Dixie Highway,” now known as US-41, became one of the country's first to guide travelers on...
This map, issued by the NHA in 1915, shows the Dixie Highway, proposed by the Dixie Highway Association and endorsed by the NHA. The projected route runs from Mackinaw City, Michigan, to Miami, Florida.