King's Road Historic District

King's Road Historic District Dedicated to presenting and preserving the history of N/E Flagler County. Kings Road(1768), Hewitts Sawmill(1770),Fort Fulton (1840), Matanzas, St.
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Joseph, Neoga, Dixie Highway and how the early settlers lived.

I have been talking to other people about our history and what we do to preserve and protect it in Flagler County. Be...
06/13/2026

I have been talking to other people about our history and what we do to preserve and protect it in Flagler County.
Before the big city of Palm Coast, our area was all farms and cattle for a couple of hundred years, with some turpentine operations sprinkled in.
Neoga was timber, lumber and turpentine. West was heavy agriculture, potatoes and cabbage were being grown and cattle ranchers were scattered around.
Wagons on Kings Road, then trucks on Dixie Highway hauled our commodities in all directions. Boats on the Matanzas and St. Johns River, then the ICW after 1907, carried our products north and south.
This is the history that is not taught in school. But I am finding that there is a desire to preserve and learn the past. Its not just KRHD or FCHS, but in places across Florida.
This is a page from a person who I had a long conversation with, Protect Rural Florida. Even though they aren't Flagler County, they have the same mission we do, preserve and protect our old time culture.

https://www.facebook.com/share/1CsVXsWS1U/

One of the things we talked to Greg from NSB Museum is that we need to all work together if we want to save our past. If you have a history group or page , post it in the comments. We will promote and support you.
Photo credits- Sierra Sage Lens Co.

https://www.facebook.com/share/19HDdz6KTF/

PZ

Yesterday, we took Greg Holbrook, director of the New Smyrna Museum of History, on a tour of Hewitts Sawmill and Kings...
06/12/2026

Yesterday, we took Greg Holbrook, director of the New Smyrna Museum of History, on a tour of Hewitts Sawmill and Kings Road.
KRHD, New Smyrna and St. Augustine are all tied together through Kings Road and the Minorcan story in Florida. We are joining together to tell that story in an event scheduled for next year.
For our part, we will be focusing on our original piece of Kings Road, the land Francisco Pellicer owned, as well as both Martin and Joseph Hernandez, who all are part of the Minorcan saga.
As it gets closer, we will add more information.
PZ

Sometimes when I am driving, my brain goes back in time and I imagine what an area looked like and what was going on thr...
06/08/2026

Sometimes when I am driving, my brain goes back in time and I imagine what an area looked like and what was going on through our past.
Imagine, if you will, driving down Old Kings Road through Palm Coast, and all of a sudden you are surrounded by cattle and the men working them. All of the noise and dust, sounds of the cattle and men yelling , whips cracking, as they drive south. That was the beginning of Kings Road in 1768.
Now we move forward, cattle still moving, but the cattle men clothes have changed, its now Blue or Grey or a mixture of clothing, as the Civil War is going on and Florida beef is being fought over.
Skip forward a couple of decades and cattle are still free grazing and round-up is happening all along Kings Road. The Cow Catchers are riding horses still, but a few trucks are now also rumbling along.
"A Land Remembered" is getting a movie made, and although it is set in central and south Florida, the story could have taken place right in our own back yard.
PZ

I did some training on a WWII LCM, the boat in the picture. It is very humbling when you are standing behind that big s...
06/06/2026

I did some training on a WWII LCM, the boat in the picture. It is very humbling when you are standing behind that big steel gate/ramp knowing that on D Day, the first 5 rows of men would die once it was dropped.
PZ

I was up late finishing a course on historic site monitoring. Although KRHD is primarily a history page, we are also ...
06/06/2026

I was up late finishing a course on historic site monitoring.
Although KRHD is primarily a history page, we are also involved with preserving/protecting our historic, cultural and heritage resources in Flagler County.
So many of our pieces of the past have disappeared, lost to the environment or development or just apathy. So, we, along with FCHS, have worked to ensure what is left is still around for future generations.
Where I am in the picture is my favorite place to be, out in the wild looking for Flagler County past. But there are other opportunities if you would like to be involved that aren't as dirty and humid. We have places with that new fangled machine called air conditioning!
Another way to be involved is by sharing our content and letting your friends and family know we exist. The more people who know and fall in love with our history, the more we can say "hey folks in charge, this County and its resources belong to the citizens and they would like to see it saved! "
PZ

https://www.facebook.com/share/1GdrLPD2fJ/

I had to go to Daytona to pick up a new project yesterday and came back the long way on Old Dixie Highway ( Beach Street...
06/05/2026

I had to go to Daytona to pick up a new project yesterday and came back the long way on Old Dixie Highway ( Beach Street to Old Dixie to Old Kings). If you haven't done that drive, I highly suggest it.
But anyway, it made me think of this article from 1922 in the Flagler Tribune. Even though Dixie Highway was the new main route, Kings Road was still important to locals. Because it was still a dirt road, it needed to be maintained, and the county wasn't really taking care of it. So, Mr Eatman approached the board saying he would handle it.
Although it says brick road, he wasn't talking about Dixie Highway, it was Moodys brick road, now SR 100. The distance was approximately 12 miles from the brick road to Matanzas.
He asked for $50 a mile, which equals $600 for the project. That was a lot of money in 1922 for a new county. But because of how many settlements,farms and commerce there were along Kings Road, it was a necessity.
Today, with inflation, it equals almost $12,000.
PZ

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