Old Brick Road, Hastings Florida
Flagler County Historical Society Article
Nine miles long and a scant nine feet wide, the Old Brick Road is a slowly decaying monument to a slowly decaying way of life. What remains of the road is only a short section of the original. In 1915 St. Johns County (of which most of Flagler County was a part) began construction of the Dixie Highway, which would connect Jacksonville with the area around Flagler Beach. The highway was part of a larger system which connected Chicago to Miami. Its name is retained in Old Dixie Highway south of Bunnell.
It’s likely you’ve never heard of many of the towns the road passed through. Byrd. Spuds. Hurds. Dupont. It’s a laundry list of scrub-hollows and swamp-bottoms made towns when the Florida East Coast Railroad was cut through the area in the late 1800’s. Timber, turpentine, and potatoes were trucked to these stations and shipped to points north. Dixie Highway paralleled the tracks for much of the way.
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Might have more going on for the weekends, but on a Friday afternoon it was completely dead.
Only restaurants opem, empty, and a couple of shops.
