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Lyons Road stretches from Broward Boulevard to the south, to Atlantic Avenue to the north. Lyons Road is also constructed in several segments along Palm Beach County. The private lands required to complete this project has been a decades-long construction project. It originally stretched from Palm Beach County south to Cypress Creek (the C-14 canal), then turned west at what is now West Atlantic Boulevard to dead end at the Two Mile Canal (now Riverside Drive in Coral Springs). Portions of Lyons Road came into existence north of what is now Coconut Creek Parkway simple because drainage of an agricultural area known as Punkin Swamp required digging of shale and sludge that was piled up alongside a drainage ditch. Flattened out, it became the base of a road that was eventually paved.

The road is named for Henry Budd Lyons, who drained thousands of acres of swampland and turned it into bean farms, starting in 1911.

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Coordinates:   26°19'3"N   80°11'11"W
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