State Road 373 (SR 373) or C.K. Steele Memorial Highway is a east–west

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, in the northern part of the U.S. state or

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. It travels along Orange Avenue between SR 371 and SR 61. In 2018, the

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designated the roadway as C.K. Steele Memorial Highway in honor of late civil rights leader

Charles Kenzie Steele Charles Kenzie Steele (born February 17, 1914 in McDowell County, West Virginia; died in Tallahassee, Florida) was a preacher and a civil rights activist. He was one of the main organizers of the 1956 Tallahassee bus boycott, and a prominent m ...

. The highway continues eastward along Orange Avenue as County Road 373 (CR 373) until it reaches Blair Stone Road, onto which it turns and travels until reaching U.S. Route 27 (US 27;

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). A

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, SR 373A, formerly traveled south along Springhill Road ( CR 2203) to SR 267 in

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Major intersections

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