County Road 509 (former
SR 509 The current southern terminus of County Road 509 is an intersection with Malabar Road (
CR 514, a westward extension of
State Road 514); the northern terminus is an interchange with
Interstate 95 (
SR 9) in the midst of Pineda, Suntree, and
Viera.
History The northern section of the road was named after the Wickham family, including John Q. Wickham, a Brevard county surveyor and Joe Wickham, a prominent Brevard County politician. Joe Wickham worked with the county to clear the route in 1950s. Since the road led to an undeveloped area, some viewed the project with skepticism. However, the planned road made sense because it ran between two ranges 36 and 37, which effectively divided the county in half. Upon completion, the road led to development of
Suntree and
Viera in the late 1970s. Later, this northern section of Malabar was redesignated as Minton Road, named after Alton M. Minton, who owned a drug store at Mintons Corner Shopping Center. By 1957, the locals referred to the area this road traveled through as Minton's Corner. In the early 1980s, Brevard County exercised
eminent domain and purchased 18 houses to clear land in a road improvement project near the intersection between Wickham and Minton roads. This project aligned Minton Road with Wickham Road. In 2013, a county commissioner reported that Minton is probably the heaviest traveled route in the county. He added that it was failing for lack of proper maintenance. ==CR 511==