User:DanTD/Sandbox/Florida State Road 33/History section

The following is an attempt to add a history section to the article on Florida State Road 33.

History
The current Florida State Road 33 was established during the great renumbering of 1945, after the original SR 33 was replaced by Florida State Road 85 in Okaloosa and Walton Counties. The route originally began at began at U.S. Route 92 (later U.S. Business Route 92) in Lakeland, Florida and ended at Florida State Road 44 west of the merge with U.S. Route 441 in Leesburg, Florida.

It was rerouted from Iowa Avenue one block west to Massachusetts Avenue in the 1970's, with a connecting road between East First Street and north of Bon Aire Street.

South of the current US 92, SR 33 became a city street within Lakeland, though some traces of Massachusetts Avenue's status as part of SR 33 can still be found in the city, mainly on railroad signal boxes at the crossing of the CSX Carters Subdivision.

North of SR 50 in Mascotte, the road was downgraded to a county road.

North of U.S. Route 27 in Okahumpka, the route was extended in a hidden overlap with US 27 and hidden SR 25 until it branched off at Dixie Avenue in Leesburg.