Documents and Correspondence related to the Early Development of the Florida Panhandle, 1880s

Containers:

Box 10, Folder 2

Biographical / historical:

A collection of ephemera relating to the early development of the area of the Florida Panhandle east of Pensacola, and an ephemeral window into the type of land schemes that led to the population of Florida by northerners. In the late nineteenth century, the area of Port Panama City in the Florida Panhandle was largely undeveloped. In the 1880s, the St. Andrews Bay Railroad and Land company was the second of two companies to sell land in the St. Andrews Bay region to unsuspectin northerners, only to go bankrupt. The company promised to build a railroad from Alabama to Southport, crossing North Bay and eventually terminating in St. Andrews. Though the railway project was abandoned, many people settled in the area as a result of the land sales.

Subjects:

Florida Panhandle (Fla.)--History.
Land grants.

Places:

Florida -- History

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