Old Dixie Highway Traditional Cache
JL_HSTRE: Container picked up in preparation for CP8.
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This cache was placed for Cachepalooza 7. Cache placement has been approved by Martin Morse, park service specialist.
Obey all speed limits. Do not block gates. All wheels off the pavement. Do not cross the railroad tracks except at the main park road or the US 1 bridge.
Dixie Highway was one of the first major automobile highways in the United States. The highway was concieved by Carl G. Fisher who was also involved in the Lincoln Highway connecting New York to San Fransisco. Dixie Highway was built between 1914 and 1927 to connect the midwest with the south.
The highway's unique designation was somewhat shortlived due to the creation of the US Highway system in 1926. Most of the later highway has been bypassed or replaced by newer US Highways or Interstates. In Florida, US Highway 1 (aka Federal Highway) replaced Dixie Highway, usually along a new route. In Martin and Palm Beach counties, Old Dixie Highway is seperate from US 1 but still in use in many places, usually closely paralelling the Florida East Coast Railroad.
Two classic sections of Dixie Highway remain in Flagler and St. Johns counties: the oak-lined scenic drive between Ormond Beach and Flagler Beach, and a very rare section of brick highway northwest of Bunnell (Old Brick Road aka CR 13) that is on the National Register of Historic Places.
Dixie Highway came to Martin County in the 1920s; a restored arch built in 1926 still spans the road in Rio. By the time Camp Murphy opened in 1942, the new routing of US Highway 1 had been built. Dixie Highway was closed within Camp Murphy and used as one of the camp's roads. It never reopened to the general public, but remained in use by Jonathan Dickinson State Park. The north end of Old Dixie within the park was destroyed when the US 1 bridge over the FEC railroad was added. When Jupiter Hills Country Club was built, the section of Old Dixie immediately south of the park was removed. Some sections of the pavement within JDSP have been removed (notably between Navigation and the old rock pile), but what remains is still very bikable after 70 years without any repaving.
The old road could see new life in the near future as part of the East Coast Greenway Trail
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