State Road 780 (SR 780), known as Fruitville Road, is a east–west street in

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. The western terminus is an intersection with

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/ SR 683 (Washington Boulevard). The eastern terminus is east of an interchange with

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( SR 93) in Fruitville, where the road continues east as County Road 780 (CR 780). West of US 301, Fruitville Road extends to the west of the end of SR 780, ending at an intersection with the

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(

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/ SR 45) in downtown Sarasota.

Route description

SR 780 begins at an intersection with

/ SR 683 in

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, heading east on Fruitville Road, a four-lane

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, continuing onto County Road 780. West of US 301, Fruitville Road continues as an unnumbered four-lane

to an intersection with

/ SR 45 in downtown Sarasota. From the western terminus, SR 780 heads through residential areas with some businesses, widening to six lanes and curving southeast before heading east again, intersecting School Avenue. The state road crosses a

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line and intersects North Lime Avenue. The road continues east through more residential and commercial areas, intersecting North Tuttle Avenue, North Lockwood Ridge Road, and CR 773 (Beneva Road). SR 780 leaves Sarasota for Fruitville and passes through more developed areas, intersecting McIntosh Road, Honore Avenue, and Cattlemen Road before coming to an interchange with

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/ SR 93. Past this interchange, SR 780 comes to its eastern terminus, with Fruitville Road continuing east as CR 780.

History

Historically, SR 780 continued eastward on Fruitville Road past the current terminus, through

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, before

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ging through Old Myakka before becoming Clay Gully Road at the northern boundary of

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. Three miles east of Sandy, Clay Gully Road turns northward at the boundary between Sarasota County and DeSoto County, where it reaches the historic eastern terminus of SR 780, an intersection with SR 70 southeast of Edgeville. The part of former SR 780 east of I-75 became County Road 780 in the early 1980s, after

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designated it a secondary State Road (and applied an "S-" prefix to the State Road 780 designation a decade earlier). This was part of a large set of redesignations that transformed the map of the State of Florida.

Major intersections

References

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