Blazing the Trail - the trail continues

Teams of surveyors and clearing crews set out first, hacking their way through dense underbrush and driving in wooden stakes every 100 feet to mark out the road's centerline.


DRILLING AND BLASTING
Using millions of sticks of dynamite and a specially designed drill car, blasting crews pounded solid rock terrace into rubble..


THE "WALKING" DREDGE-
                                              more Tamiami Trail History and Pictures
 

Celebrate Florida's colorful past the first weekend in November

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