GN Focus: America Begins Here - John A Halford - May 1984

John A Halford

If you want to see how America ends, you drive south from Miami, Florida, down Highway 1 until you get to Florida City. Stay on Highway 1 down to Key Largo, then over the chain of islands known as "the Keys." After a hundred miles or so, you reach the last island, Key West. Follow the road into town, and eventually you'll come to Whitehead Street. Keep heading south, past the lighthouse museum and the home where Ernest Hemingway used to live, past a church and the Elk's Lodge. You cross over Catherine Street, Louise Street and United Street, and eventually you reach it - the end of America. There is a big black, red and yellow marker informing you that you are at the southernmost point of the United States. From the end of the road the Caribbean Sea stretches away to Cuba, 90 miles over the horizon. - Information Supplied By: Herbert W Armstrong Library