Flomaton’s Four-Laning of Highway 113 project

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The Town of Flomaton, population 1,588, is located in the center of Escambia County and borders to the north the Town of Century in Escambia County, Florida. State Highway 113, which is two-lane, is the most direct route from Interstate 65 to Northwest Florida’s beaches. Flomaton is also where hurricane evacuation traffic from Florida’s four-lane Highway 29 to I-65 has bottlenecked year after year.

In the town archives is a letter dated August 31, 1967 from former Alabama State Highway Director, Herman Nelson to Flomaton resident and then State Senator Ernest Jackson agreeing to four-lane the highway. The rights-of-ways were purchased by the State of Alabama in 1971; however, the project was stopped. Now, more than 30 years later – after a study was submitted to Gov. Riley and monetary pledges were made by Flomaton and Escambia Counties in Alabama and Florida – a groundbreaking was held in September 2007 and construction on the new four-lane highway has begun.