520, What A SWEET Road Traditional Geocache

The people of Central Brevard County, had long wanted a cross-state highway linking western and inland Florida with the Atlantic Ocean. C. Sweet Smith, Sr., worked hard to make this dream highway a reality during his almost sixteen year tenure in service to the people of Central Brevard County, Florida as a County Commissioner. Not only was he the driving force in getting the Causeway Road Bridges built from City of Cocoa across the Indian and Banana Rivers and then continued on to the Atlantic Ocean, but he was instrumental in laying the groundwork for the construction of State Road 520 connecting Orange County and Central Florida to the Atlantic Ocean in the Cocoa area.

In 1954, the City Council of the City of Cocoa, chaired by the Honorable George Ackroyd, deemed it deserving, fitting and proper that State Road 520 from the Atlantic Ocean to State Road 50 be named the “C. SWEET SMITH MEMORIAL HIGHWAY” in memory of, and, to honor the late commissioner. Recognition was due to the fact that Mr. Sweet in no small way was instrumental in bringing the world to Cocoa Beach. The State Road Department of Florida agreed with the City of Cocoa, and in 1955 adopted Florida Statute 30272 recognizing S.R.520 as “C. Sweet Smith Memorial Highway”