The Dixie Highway, which celebrates a centennial of sorts this year, was one of the nation's first interstate highway systems — and almost 50 of its 6,000 miles of road were in Marion County.

And that’s why the Dixie Highway system changed the South. “It’s the biggest secret there is,” Jackson said. “Most history books don’t even mention the Dixie Highway.” ‘Couldn’t ...

EDITOR'S NOTE: Before interstates and federal highways, the Dixie Highway was built between Michigan and Miami Beach. College of Charleston professor Tammy Ingram has studied this highway for 10 ...

Where History Lives: 5 little-known places to visit ... and then you had the Dixie Highway funneling people from the Midwest into Florida. "So Ohioans who wanted to come to Florida knew they ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. - The Georgia Historical Society is in the front seat of a multiorganization effort to study the old Dixie Highway, a circa-1915 route from Michigan to Miami that usually was ...

Miami-Dade commissioners unanimously voted Wednesday to change the name of parts of the Old Dixie Highway to the Harriet ... continue to celebrate a painful history of systemic racism," the ...

Bridgeport Township Manager Rose Licht said Dixie Highway from Interstate 75 through ... 1980 time capsule offers glimpse of Bridgeport Township’s history The former Bridgeport Township ...

OCALA — The Dixie Highway, which celebrates a centennial of sorts this year, was one of the nation's first interstate highway systems — and almost 50 of its 6,000 miles of road were in Marion ...