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The Old Brick Road, Bunnell, Florida.
Part of a highway network meant to connect Miami to Montreal, this 10-mile stretch of road made from red bricks is still around 100 years later.
IN 1914, A HIGHWAY SYSTEM called Dixie Highway was a network of roads that was meant to connect Miami to Montreal, Canada...
By 1916, this portion of the highway near the Florida town of Espanola was complete. With tourists coming down to visit Florida’s east coast, this road would have hundreds of visitors a day driving the road on their Model T’s. By the mid-1920s, the project had a network of more than 5,000 miles of interconnected roads across 10 states.
However, the road would become obsolete in 1926 when the new road US-1 was built along the east coast of Florida close to its beaches, from Key West all the way to Jacksonville. The Dixie Highway Association was disbanded in 1927, and much of the system was absorbed in other national and state routes.
Although this road is not a main route to take anymore, it is still there, and stretches for a little over 10 miles. Many of its red bricks are still intact, and you can see an engraving on them: “GRAVES B’HAM,ALA” for the Graves Brick Company in Birmingham, Alabama. (You’ll also find some of these bricks in the streets of St. Augustine.)...
Here is the link.
The Old Brick Road – Bunnell, Florida - Atlas Obscura
Interesting Florida history.===
The Treasure Coast History Festival is back this weekend for the first time since before the coronavirus pandemic.
The free event will be from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday on Second Street in downtown Fort Pierce, both in front of and inside the Sunrise Theatre. There will be historical exhibitions outside the theater and presentations inside the theater...
Here is that link for more information about that.
Fort Pierce history festival marks 100-year anniversary of a theater, school and ranch (msn.com)
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Much of the wooden hull of a rare Elizabethan-era ship has been found in a flooded quarry in southeast England, hundreds of yards from the nearest coast.
Few vessels from this time have survived, so an analysis of the find may shed new light on a key period in seafaring, when the country rapidly expanded its trading links throughout Europe through its control of the English Channel.
"To find a late-16th-century ship preserved in the sediment of a quarry was an unexpected but very welcome find indeed," said Andrea Hamil a marine archaeologist for Wessex Archaeology, which investigated the discovery on behalf of Historic England, a government agency dedicated to historical preservation...
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Quarry workers make 'unexpected' discovery of ship from Queen Elizabeth I's reign | Live Science
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Written records of biblical King David discovered by researchers (msn.com)
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The wind was from the west yesterday. I wish we had a good low tide to go with the west wind, but the tides are moderate now.
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