Pompano's first traffic light was located at the intersection of what is today Martin Luther King Boulevard and Dixie Highway. It is not clear in exactly what year it was placed there.

Variously called Hammon Road, Hammonville Road and Hammondville Road (no one knows where "d" came from)before being renamed in honor of the civil rights leader, it stretched west from Pompano to the agricultural fields.

It allowed farmers to truck their produce to the packing sheds and the railroad, rather than barge them on one of the local canals.

The stream of produce trucks during the harvest season, together with the Dixie Highway being the only north-south through road, made the intersection the busiest and most dangerous in Pompano.