State Road 549 (SR 549) is a north–south state road in the U.S. state of

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. It runs through the downtown of Winter Haven as 1st Street N, the north–south axis of the city's grid plan.

Route description

The signage of SR 549 begins at its intersection with SR 542 (Central Avenue) in the heart of downtown Winter Haven, near the post office. 1st Street continues southward to SR 540 (Cypress Gardens Boulevard) but is not signed as SR 549. From Central Avenue, 1st Street heads northward, bypassing the

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, skirting Lake Silver, and paralleling

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. SR 549 terminates at the intersection where SR 544 jogs over; from this intersection, SR 544 heads west as Avenue T NW and eventually Havendale Blvd; and north as Lucerne Park Road.

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549 __NOTOC__ Year 549 (Roman numerals, DXLIX) was a common year starting on Friday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. The denomination 549 for this year has been used since the early medieval period, when the Anno Domi ...