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using crushed coquina shell as the surfacing material. Most of the
original highway has since disappeared under pavement, however,
traces remain. Aerial photography of Florida, taken from 1943 on,
reveals small segments of the original road faintly outlined in the map
below.

Construction of the southern route, from St. Augustine to Smyrna,
was delegated to Lieutenant. Governor John Moultrie, who in turn
solicited the help of an English entrepreneur, Dr. Andrew Turnbull.
Turnbull was able to find investors for a colonial settlement at
Mosquito Inlet. Many plantations were established there, and
commerce became so great that a daymark (brightly painted marker)
was erected at the inlet.
By 1772, the southern route of the Kings Highway had been
completed to Matanzas Swamp, and by 1775, the road reached
Colerain, Georgia to the north. Plantations were established along

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