Abandoned 10 Mile Brick Road In Florida Old Dixie Highway
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- Опубліковано 7 лют 2025
- The Old Dixie Highway remains a hidden piece of American History located in Espanola Florida. An abandoned ghost town off the beaten path of Flagler County.
This once prominent highway stretched from Michigan all the way to Miami and only small parts of it remain. This abandoned brick road is the longest remaining section with original brick and that is still utilized by the public.
Do you know of any hidden history in your area that you'd like to learn more about. Let me know in the comments, I love these hidden gems and preserving history like this is important.
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Nice work! Fun fact My wife is actually from Espanola, and when I learned of it's history and the brick road it seemed like a real forgotten chapter that most people don't know much if anything about. Oh and Espanola isn't really a "Ghost Town". It's small and very rural but it's still inhabited. Where the Dixie highway remnants hit modern pavement there are still quite a few houses and even a small forestation. It's old nickname is " 'Squitter Creek" for the swarms of mosquitos that come through in spring summer and fall. (They will eat you alive!) Her father worked the old cemetery part time in the 60's and can tell you many a story of the many of the graves there are as you would expect, ancient for the area, with the oldest going back to the 1880's.
There are a ton of overgrown farming buildings and ruins in the woods near the remaining parts of town, and it's still very much a defacto segregated place with the white and black populations living on either side of the main small road into into town. People there are mostly friendly and kind folk.
Interesting thing about the brick road... I've searched high and low looking for maps of the actual route, but I can only find vague point to point maps, so when the brick road hits County Rd 204 in St Johns it just ends, and I've never been able to find where it picks up again, my search has led to a few sites that have the general route, but no maps from when it was actually built.
Looking forward to more of your vids!
Great to hear about your personal connections with the history here. I think in the future it would be cool to post a topic and collaborate on the research. I'd love to go check out the abandoned buildings. And i'm aware that it's not actually abandoned.... but click bait, ya know! There are some towns near this area that really are abandoned and it would be fun/creepy to cover one.
That would be super interesting to potentially find an old overgrown area off the beaten path..... I might have to look further into it 😅 but I can only do so much lol
check out those Birmingham Alabama brick roads in downtown Tampa and Ybor city , still used today .
A must to visit next time in FL, long live Dixie.
Good on you on making this video! Very nice work!
Thank you!
@@YourOwnAdventure question for you (not sure what your name is), using a Osmo Pocket 3 with GoPro official chest mount so you have the links for the additional pieces you would need for the GoPro as you showed in your shorts video? I would like to chest mount OP3, give it try and see how the footage looks.
Thanks
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Eco-friendly tour of an old legend. Great vid!
Very cool ride and location!
I hope it stays that way
Great work! Palm Coast says hi.
Good video, enjoyed learning about this.
Just found this excellent vid. Was out trying to find it earlier today. The Espanola reference will help me next time. Good luck with the series - Florida is filled with history - but not well articulated.
We are not giving up the name Dixie that is our heritage and it is not a controversial term in Florida or the south. Only liberals have a problem with it, and we are not changing our history, especially in our county where this road resides.
It was/is covered in dirt to preserve it believe it or not. More information is available at Flagler County Historical Society.
That makes sense! Preserved to only eventually be developed over. From what I hear anyway...
I'll never forget the day I found the old 9 Mile Road as it's officially called. I drove down as far as I could until the sand covered up the bricks and I didn't want to risk getting stuck. Go to the St. Augustine Historical Society as they have a bunch of old newspaper articles describing the entire history of that road. It started in Jacksonville came straight south to St. Augustine turned right on King Street and went West to Hastings then South and then turned and whala.. the 9 Mile Road. What is amazing is that those bricks look like they were just laid yesterday. If you want to go back in time take a trip on the Brick.
Good stuff!
You are finding some interesting places 🙂
Right in the backyard!
@@YourOwnAdventure nice 👍
Good stuff.
Thanks friend!
Such an educational video! I try to give a little background info on the places I explore for my channel, too. Thanks for sharing, I subscribed! : )
Cool. Thank you, I'll check out some of yours!
Palm Coast has plans to develop that area around Espanola and the Old Dixie Hwy. The history and culture will soon be forgotten of that area. The original city in Flagler Co. was in that area, called Flagler City. As the railroad and highways moved east of that area, Bunnell was established. The Late Otis Hunter, Ray Mercer, and M.B. Fuller knew the history of that area !
Love Old Florida history!
I did a lot of research on New Smyrna when I lived there . If I'm not mistaken the Old Dixie Highway is part of The Kings Highway.?
You are right. And I think there are some untouched portions of it up in Flagler. There is so much history that I'm having a hard time choosing what to cover lol
@@YourOwnAdventure hey more content the better ?
Either way this stuff im interested in.
Oh my this looks like fun.
Just got done fence pulling and set to mow. Will give a nice expansion to the fitness loop around the house (to about a quarter mile going along the full perimeter)
So hopefully by the time of my surgery I will be fit enough to do group rides.
Perfect track length! this is a great gravel ride. kind of boring but way out in the sticks. Good luck with the recovery!
@@YourOwnAdventure by all measure cateracts surgery is very safe. It's mostly getting it done.
Because I sorely need to get out and bike.
@@singletona082 That's what I hear. You'll be out in no time!
@@YourOwnAdventure thank you
And again thank you for sharing the road's history. I will save my opinion on the whole 'tesr down everything because it glorifies things we are disgusted by' as both sides have fair points.
But you saying a brick in a museum isn't the same as riding it? Straight up wonderful way of putting it.
You must really get your fee fees hurt when you see a winn dixie
I know exactly where it is and now there are more sod farms but a little bit of logging but around Hastings there is still a lot of veggy farms mostly cabbage and taters
plan to visit this soon! PS Sault is pronounced "soo"
Drove it...
What's some weird history you know of?
Go ride the Ormond Loop! Plenty to discuss with the constant battle against developers, or check out The Casements in Ormond. John D. Rockefeller, Henry Flagler and John Astor left their marks here. Ooh maybe go ride somewhere in Astor...anything to do with the St John's River would be interesting. Btw I'm so stoked for this new series!
@@jcweir33 I definitely like all those ideas. And yeah, so much with Flagler and Rockefeller, Astor, DeLand. I already have something written up that falls somewhere in that space.... and it might surprise you. Glad there is positive feedback with this series. I'm trying to keep the bikes involved as much as I can. Thanks for the support 🙏
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