Florida's Ghost Highway: The Old Red Brick Highway of the Dixie Highway

 From the Florida Traveler site by Michael Warren.

It is a ten-mile stretch of red brick ghost highway located  in central Flagler and southern St. Johns counties in Florida.  It once brought a steady stream of "Tin Can" tourists  in their Model T Fords from as far away as Chicago to the tropical Florida lands.

It is one of the few remaining original segments of the famed Dixie Highway.

This portion was completed in 1916 but was obsolete within 15 years.  What remains is a  rugged (and sometimes bumpy trip down the days of yore.

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The Dixie Highway was a massive project that brought together  private industry and state governments to create a network of paved roads from Chicago to South Florida.  The leader of the project was Carl  G. Fisher, who had previously  created the Indianapolis Motor Speedway and the transcontinental Lincoln Highway.

This Dixie Highway  connected ten states with more than 5,000  miles of paved road.

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This highway in Florida is a real ribbon or sidewalk highway like the famed stretch of Route 66 in Oklahoma, at nine feet wide.  You don't want to meet oncoming traffic on this one.

--RoadDog