Florida State Road 827

The former State Road 827, locally known as Loxahatchee Road and Browns Farm Road, stretched 17 miles along the southern edge of the Hillsboro Canal, originally extending from Sixmile Bend to present-day Parkland. Its original (1945) northwestern terminus was an intersection with (then-)US 441-SR 80 (which became SR 880 after US 441 and US 80 were rerouted three miles to the north; most of SR 880 was transformed into Palm Beach County Road 880 in the 1980s). The southeastern terminus was an intersection with US 441 (SR 7) in Broward County. State Road 827 was signed east-west.

After the establishment of the Everglades Wildlife Management Area by the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission [ [http://www.nova.edu/ocean/eglades/sum00/wcas.html Overview of Water and Wildlife Management Areas] ] in the 1960s, the portion of SR 827 within its boundaries was removed from the state highway system. Shortly afterward, a second section east of Browns Point) was reverted to Palm Beach County control (many commercially-prepared maps from the 1970s to the present show this second section as part of Palm Beach County Road 827). For at least two decades, SR 827 was an "interrupted" State Road.

By 1990 the southeastern segment was transitioned from State to County control [Florida Department of Transportation "Official Florida Transportation Map" 1989] [Florida Department of Transportation "Official Florida Transportation Map" 1991] ; the northwestern section followed suit within a few years and became CR 827 [Florida Department of Transportation "Official Florida Transportation Map" 1998] . Despite indications from several commercial maps, only the part of the original SR 827 northwest of Browns Point is currently signed as CR 827.

The former SR 827 crossed a vast stretch of the Everglades wetlands along the opposite side of the Hillsboro Canal from the Arthur R. Marshall Loxahatchee National Wildlife Refuge and through a region managed by the South Florida Water Management District and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.

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