What was the first road in Florida?

The British created the first graded road built in Florida in 1763, when the state was known as the colony of East Florida. Called Old Kings Road, that 150-mile thoroughfare bumped along from the St. Marys River, at the border between East Florida and Georgia, to south of New Smyrna.



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