The Search For Old Kings Road
Subtitle: The First Route into Florida
Publisher: Old Kings Road Press, Amazon KDP
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Flagler Beach Florida, USA
Format: Paperback; Kindle
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9781601790330
Description: Old Kings Road was built by British engineers prior to the American Revolution.  It was the main route into Florida right up to the 20th Century.  This is the history of this roadway going back over 240 years covering wars, a slave rebellion, and the Civil War.  Florida's early history was well linked to The Old Kings Road.  This is a historical account of this ancient roadway which has now virtually vanished being covered, repaved, or forgotten.  This is William Ryan's historical research on this roadway once called "An American Engineering Treasure."
Table of contents: title: 1.  	Florida's Main Entryway			1-2; title: 2. 	We were not the first			3-7; title: 3	First Spanish Settlers			9-13; title: 4.	British Control				15-22; title: 5.	Al Hadeed speaks				23-24; title: 6.	A well made, suitable road			25-28; title: 7.	Rapid growth down Old Kings			29-33; title: 8.	Minorcan Escape				35-39; title: 9.	British occupation ends			41-43; title: 10.	Spain in control				45-49; title: 11.	Joseph M. Hernandez			51-53; title: 12.	Spain is pressured				55-56; title: 13.	U.S. Ownership				57-62; title: Live Oakers along Old Kings			63-64; title: 14.	The Indians must go				65-71; title: 15.	Disaster					73-80; title: 16.	Fort Fulton and second Seminole War		81-84; title: 17.	1839 Taylor Map, 1835 Williams map 		85-87; title: 18	Where did they go?				89-93; title: 19	Florida departs the union			95; title: 20.	The Carter Road				86-97; title: 21.	The Brick Road and I.I. Moody 		  98-99; title: 22.	Wreck of Bulowville				100-101; title: 23.	Railroads arrive				103; title: 24.	Does it still exist?				104-106; title: 25.	Lew Wadsworth and Double Bridges		107-111; title: 26.	Rodenmeyer video				112; title: 27.	Technology Search				115-118; title: 28	More Electronic Searching			118-125; title: 29.	Florida Agricultural Museum			127-131; title: 30.	Pellicer Land Grant				132-134; title: 31.	Old Kings reappears				135-155; title: Markers, dates, and time lines; title: Sources