The Allman Brothers Band’s Dickey Betts to Receive Namesake Stretch of U.S. Route 41 in Native Florida

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Allman Brothers Band’s co-founder, the late “Ramblin’ Man” Dickey Betts, will be honored in his home state of Florida with a namesake stretch of memorial highway on U.S. Route 41, located in Sarasota County.

The decision came on Wednesday, February 25, when the Florida House passed a bill designating a section of a major road as the “Dickey Betts Memorial Highway.” Notably, the memorial asphalt extends from the North Creek neighborhood, near Jacksonville, Fla., to Blackburn Point Rd., which borders Osprey, Fla…

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