"Drivin' the Dixie: Automobile Tourism in the South"

Vintage Postcards

Ca. 1920 (Card #58649) Curt Teich Postcard of brick-paved section of road.
Inscription on the back reads:

"This section together with the rest of the New County Pavement and the road on down the East Coast has become part of the 'Montreal Miami Highway' and later 'The Dixie Highway.' There are only sixty miles of brick in St. Johns County. Running from one end of the County to the other. It, the road, traverses the greatest Irish Potato Growing section in the United States. Millions of Barrels of select stock are shipped out for the early market each year. It also traverses the best and largest corn and dairy section the State of Florida."

This section of road was built in 1915 with convict labor, and the width of the road is only 9 feet wide. A bypassed segment of the road may be found near Espanola in neighboring Flagler County.