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Site of Pensacola - St. Augustine Road

Site of Pensacola - St. Augustine Road is a Florida historical marker in Gulf Breeze, Santa Rosa County, dedicated 1963.

Intersection of Gulf Breeze Parkway and Fairpoint Dr., Gulf Breeze

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Begun by a military detachment from Pensacola in 1824, the first federal highway in Florida was designed to connect the two principal cities of the new territory. Construction was later contracted to John Bellamy, wealthy Jefferson County planter, and the majority of the road was built under Bellamy's direction by slave labor. It was completed in May, 1826 at a cost of $23,000.

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David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

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1822 · Alabama. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1823 · Unknown (Maps Collection)
1828 · The coasts of West Florida, Alabama, Mississippi & Louisiana. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1838 · Alabama (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1859 · Colton's Florida (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

The coasts of West Florida, Alabama, Mississippi & Louisiana, 1828, covering the location of Site of Pensacola - St. Augustine Road, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — The coasts of West Florida, Alabama, Mississippi & Louisiana, 1828, covering this location. David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Florida Historical Marker Program, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State

Site of Pensacola - St. Augustine Road

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