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The earliest evidence found of the old state road system is on a 1917 State Road Department map; [1] in 1923 the Florida State Legislature began writing the routes into law. Every two years, when the legislature met, new roads were added, at first by number, and later giving the SRD the ability to choose a number.
Primary roads would continue to be state-maintained, while secondary roads would have an S before the number, and would only be state-maintained during a construction project. Local roads would be completely removed from the system. In 1969, the State Road Department was superseded by Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT).
Florida's interstate highway system contains 1,473 miles (2,371 km) of highway, and there are 9,934 miles (15,987 km) of non-interstate highway in the state, such as Florida state highways and U.S. Highways. [citation needed] State highways are numbered according to convention.
The State Road Department, the predecessor of today's Department of Transportation, was authorized in 1915 by the Florida Legislature.For the first two years of its existence, the department acted as an advisory body to the 52 counties in the state, helping to assemble maps and other information on roads.
The U.S. Highways in Florida are the segments of the United States Numbered Highway System maintained by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). Prior to 1993, Florida used colored shields for its U.S. Highways. There are 18 current U.S. Highways in Florida and 2 former U.S. Highways.
State Road 905A (now County Road 905A) is the Card Sound Bridge and Card Sound Road between the bridge and CR 905 (SR 905A used to extend northward to an intersection with US 1 near Florida City, but Miami-Dade County doesn't sign its county roads and rarely designates them as "County Road ###"). As late as 2005, an old "State Road S-905A" was ...
U.S. Route 90 (US 90) in the state of Florida is the northernmost east–west United States Numbered Highway in the state. US 90 not only passes through the county seats of all the 16 counties it runs through on its course in Florida and is also the road upon which many of the county courthouses are located, but it was the first paved road in Florida (from Jacksonville westward a few miles).
Bellamy built the road using equipment and slaves from his plantation, and completed his portion of the road in 1826. The congressional act stated that the road was to be 25 feet (7.6 m) wide, but the contract with Bellamy required that the road only be 16 feet (4.9 m) wide.