April 8, 2025 · 7:08 pm
I want I may arrange a video digital camera to see how many individuals per day (IF ANY) cease alongside the facet of the highway to learn this 3 ft. x 3 ft. white stone with a plague on it… my educated quess could be a grand complete of ONLY ME! 🙂 I’ve NEVER seen a single particular person it EVER!!!!!
This Highway & Ferry Marker sits about 12 ft off the principle highway US-1 southbound towards some hedges and is almost unattainable to see as you journey by the fuel station & ironmongery shop throughout the road. It reads: “In April, 1926 Monroe County started development of a highway on the east finish of Higher Matecumbe Key to attach with different islands. It will definitely made it attainable to drive to Key West through the use of a ferry. The primary automobile drove to Key West on January twenty fifth, 1928 by boarding a ferry right here at todays Boy Scout Sea Base and crossing 40 miles of water to No Title Key. Later the ferry docked at Grassy Key, touring by highway to the west finish of todays Marathon. From there a ferry crossed to No Title Key. It was on the morning of March 29, 1938 that the daughter of the Cuban Council reduce the ribbon opening the highway with out the ferries through the use of the widened railway bridges. A toll sales space was erected right here to gather $1 for automobile and driver and 25 cents for every extra passenger. The toll was eliminated in 1954.” Wow, how neat! It’s exhausting for us to fathom, give it some thought, the one technique to journey to Key West till 1938 was by boat or practice and earlier than September twenty second, 1912 (practice’s debut) it was ONLY accessible by boat!
You could find this FREE neglected historic marker at Mile Marker 73.8 on the bayside of US-1.
