Old Dixie Highway - Espanola (#0446)

This photo is chronologically out of sequence – it was taken a day later and at the southern end of the brick segment, in the tiny village of Espanola about 10 miles away from the first photos. There were no such warning signs about the road on the northern segment. (FYI, I didn’t drive the entire segment because I was in a rental car.)

I was raised just a few blocks from Jacksonville’s Old St. Augustine Road, which was probably aligned with what had been a more northern segment of this same road. But, the history of roads wasn’t exactly a common topic in those days, so I had no notion of that road’s history or it’s place in Florida’s development. I only discovered the existence of this stretch when I was planning my travels and happened to notice “Old Dixie Highway” on a map.

(Part of a photo-essay series on personal history and race, with keyword FlaAla0518)