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.

Old dixie highway. Under the slogan good roads for everyone the nha advocated the building and permanent maintenance by the federal government of a system of 50 000 miles some 80 500 kilometers of highways. In july modesto abety gutierrez was driving on south dixie highway in miami on the way to drop his 16 year old granddaughter isabella banos off at a friend s house. It is located roughly between espanola in flagler county and cr 204 southeast of hastings near flagler estates in st. In partnership with the good roads movement advocates for the old dixie highway fought for cleaner smoother and longer roads to crisscross the country.

Still exist on roadways throughout georgia particularly on old u s. Officially recognized as the dixie highway hastings espanola and bunnell road or old brick road it was added to the national register of historic places on april 20 2005. A highway in florida won t be keeping its name much longer after a county voted to change the name of a handful of dixie highways to harriet tubman highway. References to the dixie highway no longer appear on georgia s official state highway map nor is it mentioned in most georgia or u s.

History textbooks yet this overlooked highway had a dramatic impact on georgia and florida before the arrival of interstate highways in the 1960s. This map issued by the nha in 1915 shows the dixie highway proposed by the dixie highway association and endorsed by the nha.