History
Killian Drive is named in honor of Dan Killian who was an area pioneer and county commissioner, responsible for the first area schools, churches and street lights. His country store was about one block south of the historic "Dice House", now at SW 77th Avenue and SW 100th Street. Killian Drive pre-dates Coral Gables.
In the 1950s, Kendall was being developed with different “boundaries” than being used by the community today. Signs indicating its original northern boundary – “North Kendall Drive,” South 88th Street (SR 94) – are still being used as street identifiers (although they are gradually being replaced by “Kendall Drive” signs), while signs identifying the southern edge of Kendall – “South Kendall Drive,” SW 104th Street – have long since disappeared.
When the State Road signs were erected in 1982, they lined a route thrice as long as the current alignment and identified it as State Road 936. Originally, the western terminus was at the intersection of SW 104th Street and SW 137th Avenue (SR 825) in Kendall (although some commercial maps as recent as 2004 incorrectly show SR 990 extending two miles (3 km) further to the west to SW 157th Avenue near the Hammocks) and the eastern terminus was an intersection with Red Road/West 57th Avenue (then SR 959) in Pinecrest at the parking lot of the original Parrot Jungle and Gardens (now Pinecrest Gardens Park). The western end was truncated to SR 985 by 1990; about four years later, the SR 936 signs were replaced with SR 990 signs. By the end of the decade, the SR 990 signs were removed from Killian Drive east of South Dixie Highway (US 1), about the same time the Florida Department of Transportation eliminated part of SR 959 south of Dixie Highway was.
Read more about this topic: Florida State Road 990
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