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CR 16A is a county road in St. Johns County, Florida.It is a spur of SR 16 in northwestern St. Johns County. It goes through mainly rural land. It begins at SR 13 just north of the Shands Bridge and continues about 1.5 miles before making a junction with County Road 210 afterwards it continues until its end at SR 16 near World Golf Village.
Heading north, it intersects US 1 Business (US 1 Bus.), known locally as King Street, and a tourist route through old St. Augustine. Just north of the intersection, it crosses the San Sebastian River and then straddles on the eastern riverbed. At the northern end of St. Augustine, it intersects SR 16, followed by US 1 Bus. five blocks later.
State Road 9B (SR 9B) is a 5.5-mile-long (8.9 km) state highway on the south side of Jacksonville, Florida. It is a freeway for its entire length. Its southern terminus is at County Road 2209 (CR 2209) in St. Johns County .
St. Augustine (/ ˈ ɔː ɡ ə s t iː n / AW-gə-steen; Spanish: San Agustín [san aɣusˈtin]) is a city in and the county seat of St. Johns County, Florida, United States.Located 40 miles (64 km) south of downtown Jacksonville, the city is on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida.
Section of a map showing King's Road in the Territory of Florida, by the United States Army Corps of Engineers, published in 1839. When the first governor of British East Florida, Col. James Grant, arrived in the capital, St. Augustine, on August 29, 1764, almost the entire Spanish population of the town had emigrated to Cuba and elsewhere in New Spain.
From there, the road spends the rest of its journey approaching St. Augustine, slowly heading into the heart of the city, intersecting SR 312 before terminating at US 1. SR 207 mainly goes through farming area. The Seminole Electric power plant, and the Georgia Pacific paper mill in Putnam County along the St. Johns River can be seen from the road.
Flagler returned to St. Augustine in 1885 and made Smith an offer. If Smith could raise $50,000, Flagler would invest $150,000 and they would build a hotel together. Smith couldn't come up with the funds, [ 7 ] so Flagler began construction of the 540-room Ponce de León Hotel by himself, spending several times his original estimate.
State Road 312 begins at the intersection between SR 207 and SR 312, where SR 207 continues northeast into central St. Augustine. About 0.4 miles (0.64 km) east of the western terminus, SR 312 passes over the Florida East Coast Railway main line via an overpass. one mile (1.6 km) from the western terminus, SR 312 intersects U.S. Route 1 (US 1), with SR 312 continuing a few blocks east through ...