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The 1998 Florida Legislature designated the western 7 miles (11 km) of the Polk Parkway (between Interstate 4 and South Florida Avenue (State Road 37) as the James Henry Mills Medal of Honor Parkway. Mills was the only native of Polk County to receive a medal of honor in World War II, in recognition of his heroic actions in Cisterna , Italy.
U.S. Route 98 (US 98) is a major east-west thoroughfare through the U.S. state of Florida.Spanning 670.959 miles (1,079.804 km), it connects Pensacola and the Alabama/Florida state line to the west with Palm Beach and the Atlantic coast in the east.
The Central Polk Parkway, also known as State Road 570B (SR 570B), is a proposed controlled-access toll road in Polk County, Florida. The proposed road is actually two separate roads—called legs by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT). The western segment will connect the Polk Parkway with SR 60 between Bartow and Lake Wales. [1]
Central Florida GreeneWay / Seminole Expressway / Southern Connector / Orlando East Bypass 1988: current SR 429: 43.190: 69.508 I-4 near Walt Disney World: Florida State Road 46 in Mt. Plymouth [5] Daniel Webster Western Beltway / Western Expressway / Wekiva Parkway 2000: current Cashless tolling system on Wekiva Parkway, north of US 441
The road intersects the Polk Parkway, then continues eastward as Winter Lake Road until it intersects Florida State Road 620 where the name changes to Old 9 Foot Road. The route continues to the east and after crossing the Florida Midland Railroad Winter Haven Line, intersects with US 17, a few miles south of downtown Winter Haven. It briefly ...
State Road 572 (SR 572) is a 4.674-mile-long (7.522 km) state highway in Polk County, Florida, that runs from U.S. Route 92 (US 92) and North Galloway Road in western Lakeland to Pipkin Creek Road and South Parkway Frontage Road. The road runs in an L-shape with its east–west leg running generally parallel to SR 570 (Polk Parkway).
The route was extended east of US 98 towards the southwestern shores of Lake Parker into what is today East Gary Road (unmarked Florida State Road 600). By 1961, US 92 was realigned onto the segment east of Florida State Road 517 (formerly Florida State Road 600B [ 2 ] ), and included SR 517 itself.
Coconut Creek Parkway begins in Margate at US 441. From here, it heads east through Coconut Creek. Two miles later, Coconut Creek Parkway comes to an interchange with Florida's Turnpike. At the intersection with SR 849 (NW 31st Avenue), which is across from the Turnpike interchange ramps, CR 912 briefly becomes Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard.