Abandoned 10 Mile Brick Road In Florida Old Dixie Highway 

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!

A must to visit next time in FL, long live Dixie.

Great work! Palm Coast says hi.

check out those Birmingham Alabama brick roads in downtown Tampa and Ybor city , still used today .

Good video, enjoyed learning about this.

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 on you on making this video! Very nice work!

Eco-friendly tour of an old legend. Great vid!

Damn this close to me

It was/is covered in dirt to preserve it believe it or not. More information is available at Flagler County Historical Society.

Very cool ride and location!

Good job! Great research. We love it.

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 !

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.

Good stuff!

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! : )

You must really get your fee fees hurt when you see a winn dixie

Drove it...

You are finding some interesting places 🙂

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.

plan to visit this soon! PS Sault is pronounced "soo"

What's some weird history you know of?

Good stuff.

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.?

Graves Birmingham Alabama

Damn this close to me