King's Road (Florida)

King's Road
King's Road
Route information
Length	150 mi (240 km)
Existed	1765–1773–present
Major junctions
From	Colerain, Georgia
To	New Smyrna, Florida
Location
Country	United States
Highway system
	Post Roads in the United States;

The King's Road was a road built by the British in their colony of East Florida. It stretched from the St. Marys River, the border between East Florida and Georgia, to south of New Smyrna, and was mostly completed by 1773.^[1]

The King's Road originated as an Indian trail on a high sand ridge paralleling the Atlantic coast. South of St. Augustine it passed westward around the navigable sections of Moultrie and Moses creeks, and then crossed the wetlands that ran along the Matanzas River south of Pellicer Creek on built-up causeways.

^ Susan Parker (September 2008). Blythe, Robert W. (ed.). "Canaveral National Seashore Historic Resource Study" (PDF). National Park Service. p. 40. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 13, 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

[Parker2008-1] Susan Parker (September 2008). Blythe, Robert W. (ed.). "Canaveral National Seashore Historic Resource Study" (PDF). National Park Service. p. 40. Archived (PDF) from the original on April 13, 2015. Retrieved 2 January 2016.

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