Alabama Jack’s is a waterfront bar and grill on Card Sound Road, one of two ways to reach the Florida Keys by car or bike.
Homestead is located about 35 miles southwest of Miami, and is in the middle of a unique agricultural area called the Redland. The Everglades begins just west of the city. Key Largo is 25 miles south on U.S. Highway 1. It is home to about 30,000 people.
The name came about when the Florida East Coast Railway was being extended from Miami to Key West. The railroad passed through the area around the Redlands that had recently been opened up for homesteading.
Since the construction camp at the end of the railroad had no real name, materials were delivered to “Homestead Country”. That got shortened to Homestead, and the name stuck.
