[2][3] What is now called Beach Boulevard is actually an extension that was added to the original, post-Civil War road called Hogan Road, which stretched from the South bank of the St Johns River downtown, and led Southeast across the bridge over Little Pottsburg Creek and moved onward toward St Augustine.

The Southbank section of Hogan Road between Parental Home Road and the South bank of the St Johns River downtown was renamed Beach Boulevard and added to the new section, thus allowing the new Beach Boulevard to exist under one name from the South bank of the St Johns River, all the way out to the Atlantic Ocean.

All that is left of the original Hogan Road is the Northbank section downtown, and a small piece of the original Southbank section that stretches from just west of Parental Home Road South across the Little Pottsburg Creek, and ends at the intersection of Southside Boulevard.

[4] Construction began before World War II but was suspended between fall 1941 and 1945.

[5] In 2009, construction was completed on a six-lane, dual span, concrete beam fixed bridge with a 65-foot vertical clearance over the Intercoastal Waterway that replaced the former four-lane, dual span McCormick drawbridge.