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	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: South Florida Railroad (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The railroad was promised land grants along its line, provided that it be built to Bartow by January 1, 1884, and Tampa by January 1, 1885 or connected with another railroad for that purpose.
		Henck of Longwood, Florida stood up and announced that if he and his fledging South Florida Railroad was given their State Charter along with its generous land grants he would push the railroad through from Sanford to Orlando in time to save the project.
		The South Florida RR was incorporated on October 16, 1878 by Henck, E.F. Crafts, H. Mercer, and Dr. C.C. Haskell, all of Orange County, Florida.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/South-Florida-Railroad (367 words)

	South Florida Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The South Florida Railroad was incorporated on October 16, 1878, but was unable to obtain a charter until December 9, 1879, when they took over the charter of the Lake Monroe and Orlando, which was in danger of losing its land grants.
		Specifically, the Florida Southern would not built any lines south of Pemberton's Ferry and Brooksville or north of Bartow, and the South Florida would build their Pemberton Ferry Branch between the two and assign trackage rights to the Florida Southern.
		The South Florida leased it in 1883, and it was standard gauged on September 21, 1886.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_Florida_Railroad (917 words)

	Jacksonville, Florida - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Florida became a territory of the United States in 1821, and the following year Cowford acquired the name Jacksonville, after the first military governor of the Florida Territory and eventual seventh President of the United States, Andrew Jackson.
		The Florida Theatre, opened in 1927, is located in downtown Jacksonville and is one of only four remaining high-style movie palaces built in Florida during the Mediterranean Revival architectural boom of the 1920s.
		The largest city in the state, it is also the largest deepwater port in the south and a leading port in the U.S. for automobile imports, as well as the leading transportation and distribution hub in the state.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jacksonville (5087 words)

	sOUTH fLORIDA 2
		The Florida Southern was given territory south of Bartow to Charlotte Harbor and North of Pemberton’s Ferry to Gainesville in which Plant and his South Florida RR promised not to invade these regions if the Florida Southern gave up its designs on Tampa Bay.
		To comply with the terms of the agreement between the South Florida and the Florida Southern, the South Florida finished the construction of the 57 mile Pemberton’s Ferry Branch in May of 1886.
		Resold to the South Florida RR # 3 “Kissimmee”; in 1881.
	taplines.net /southflorida/southflorida2 (1803 words)

	The Birth of Miami
		Tuttle’s husband, Frederick, died in 1886, and she decided to move to South Florida due to what was described as the “delicate health” of her children.
		Florida’s famous citrus crop was lost, as well as the winter vegetable crop in the ground throughout the state.
		Ingraham headed the railroad’s land department, which had the responsibility for securing land for the railroad, surveying and laying out the new towns that sprang up on the newly granted railroad lands, and attracting settlers and farmers to these lands.
	www.historical-museum.org /history/found1.htm (2271 words)

	South Bay - For Those Seeking Florida Living and Visiting Info
		South Bay in Western Palm Beach County is a city of approximately three square miles area and a population of nearly four thousand persons.
		South Bay is located approximately 45 miles west of West Palm Beach, 75 miles east of Fort Myers and 75 miles northwest of Miami.
		South Bay is served by both, the Florida East Coast Railway Company (FEC) and by the South Central Florida Railroad (SCFRR).
	www.floridavisiting.com /towns/SouthBay.html (507 words)

	FLORIDA OF THE RAILROAD BARONS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		He came to Florida in 1879 due to the deteriorating health of his first wife, and was recruited by Florida's business community to consider a new career.
		Since South Florida land sold for a fraction of Northern land and less than most farm land in the Deep South, the homesteaders flooded down the rail lines into Florida in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
		In 1876 Florida was a backward agricultural state with poor transportation connections to the North and Midwest.
	www.floridahistory.org /floridians/railroad.htm (2094 words)

	Railroad Museums: FLORIDA
		The Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum, Inc. was founded in 1981 to acquire, protect, preserve and operate interesting and historic examples of railroad rolling stock, artifacts, and other aspects of railroad history, with emphasis on railroads that served the state of Florida.
		South Florida Railway Museum dedicated to provide the public with the history of railroading and how it affected the population growth and industry boom from the 1940's to the 1960's in the South Florida area.
		Our Mission Statement is: To chronicle the history of South Florida as related to the Railroads that brought commerce and development to the area and to educate the general population.
	www.railmuseums.com /namerica/FLORIDA (549 words)

	South Florida Railway Museum - Welcome
		Our challenge is to provide the public with the history of railroading and how it affected the population growth and industry boom from the 1940's to the 1960's in the South Florida area.
		We are planning to teach through the use of railroad artifacts and through the design and the building of a model railroad display depicting the area during that time frame.
		Our desire is to chronicle the history of South Florida as related to the Railroads that brought commerce and development to the area and to educate the general population.
	www.sfrm.org (470 words)

	Railroads and Transit in Florida
		South Florida officials, however, have embraced the proposal and hope to draw 7,000 passengers to the train each morning and evening to make it successful enough to continue and grow after the three-year trial period.
		The history of railroading in Florida spans almost 170 years and is closely linked with the state’s development and growth.
		On passenger trains, railroads operated lots of equipment other than sleepers, coaches, dining cars, etc. This equipment was generally called 'head-end' equipment, these 'freight' cars were at one time plentiful and highly profitable for the railroads.
	www.lakemirabel.com /Railroad/Florida1.html (2261 words)

	City of South Bay, FL - Profile of South Bay, FL
		South Bay, Florida is located approximately 45 miles west of West Palm Beach, 75 miles east of Fort Myers and 75 miles northwest of Miami.
		South Bay is approximately 40 miles from the nearest North/South interstate.
		South Bay is served by the Florida East Coast Railway Company (FEC) and by the South Central Florida Railroad (SCFRR).
	www.southbaycity.com /public_documents/SouthBayFL_WebDocs/profile (691 words)

	South Florida history
		The Florida land boom fit the spirit of the Roaring Twenties when women were bobbing their hair and raising their hemlines, bootleg liquor was enjoyed at speakeasies, and South Florida became the nation’s winter playground with its beaches, fancy hotels, horse races, and top-name entertainers.
		When a major hurricane struck South Florida in September of 1926, killing over one hundred people and causing millions of dollars in damage, Miamians were forced to confront the end of the Boom.
		But the story of South Florida has always been one of arrivals, from the early Tequesta Indians to the homesteaders of the 1800s, to the modern influx of Cuban and Haitian refugees, South Americans, Europeans, Canadians, and Americans from other states.
	www.historical-museum.org /history/southfla.htm (1732 words)

	South Florida Railroad
		The railroad’s promoters could not raise the cash needed to start construction and they called what they thought would be their last meeting in November of 1879.
		Henck was made president of the railroad and on his way back to Florida he stopped in Pittsburgh, PA to purchase ten miles of thirty-pound rail and a little narrow gauge locomotive from Porter on November 12, 1879.
		But by then the South Florida’s supply of rails had been exhausted and because of the railroad building boom in the country there would be a three-month lull in completing the road to Orlando.
	www.taplines.net /southflorida/southflorida (2188 words)

	Transportation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		The land on the south side of Lake Monroe, the future site of Sanford, was the northern edge of a large parcel of one of these grants that, by the time of the American Civil War, had come into the possession of the Confederate General Joseph Finnegan.
		The rivers of Florida were the only ways to get around the rugged, swampy interior of Central Florida and allowed lumber and produce to be sent to Jacksonville on barges.
		The first railroad in the area around Sanford was the South Florida Railroad from Longwood to Sanford in 1880.
	pegasus.cc.ucf.edu /~tbeaureg/Transportation.html (546 words)

	Floridian: The founders of Florida fantasy
		Plant's South Florida Railroad put Tampa on the map and connected the sparsely populated west coast of the state with the rest of the world.
		He moved himself and his railroad down the coast, shifted his taste from the exuberant Spanish style to the classic Colonial Revival and, with the Hotel Royal Poinciana, the Palm Beach Inn and the Breakers, turned the sleepy burg of Palm Beach into society's winter playground.
		The railroad was finished in 1912, and Flagler, 82, rode it to Key West for an elaborate celebration.
	www.sptimes.com /2002/12/08/Floridian/The_founders_of_Flori.shtml (2394 words)

	City of Sanford Florida
		To the south a second garrison was established at Fort Reid.
		Florida became a state in 1845 and that same year Orange County was created.
		The residential neighborhood was established to the south away from the threat of flood and disease.
	www.ci.sanford.fl.us /san125/san125book.html (2905 words)

	South Florida Ecosystem History Website - Florida Bay
		Currently, under the South Florida Initiative of the Ecosystem Program, scientists at the U.S. Geological Survey are studying the paleoecologic changes taking place in Florida Bay in hopes of understanding the physical environment and restoring the region to a a more pristine, natural state.
		Cores collected from Florida Bay are first sampled for pollen, dinoflagellates and diatoms, washed through a seive stack to remove fine-grained mud, and analyzed for bottom-dwelling, or benthic, organisms, such as mollusks, foraminifera, and ostracodes.
		The railroad, built between 1905 and 1912, has significantly impacted Florida Bay by cutting off the flow of water between the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico.
	sofia.usgs.gov /flaecohist/floridabay.html (1199 words)

	Florida Steam Locomotives
		It was later moved to the Florida Gulf Coast Railroad Museum in Parrish.
		Railroad Museum of South Florida at the Lakes Park and Gulf Railroad Train Village in 1995.
		In 1984 she was sold to the state of Florida and in 1986 she was placed on display at the State Agriculture Department Offices in Tallahassee.
	www.steamlocomotive.com /florida (2971 words)

	Railroad Clipart ETC (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		Now began the construction of railroads in various directions; in the next twenty years nearly ten thousand miles of road were built.
		Clipart ETC is a part of the Educational Technology Clearinghouse and is funded by a grant from the Florida Department of Education, Office of Educational Technology.
		Produced by the Florida Center for Instructional Technology, College of Education, University of South Florida.
	etc.usf.edu /clipart/galleries/transportation/railroad.htm (791 words)

	City of Sanford Florida
		Sanford sits on the south shore of Lake Monroe at the head of the navigation on the St. Johns River.
		He planned a new city "the Gate City of South Forida," which he believed would become the transportation hub for all of southern Florida.
		That same year constyruction began on the South Florida Railroad with a terminus in Sanford.
	www.ci.sanford.fl.us /wt/wtmain.html (648 words)

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		Deerfield Beach, FL Railroads have played an important role in the history of South Florida -- and they continue to make important contributions to our lives today.
		You can learn all about the history of railroads in South Florida, as well as the commerce and development they made possible at the South Florida Railroad Museum.
		The museum is on the south side of the road, on the other side of the divide.
	www.southflorida.com /attractions/20005,0,5675171,printer.location (203 words)

	ORLANDO history images pictures (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16)
		In the early years (1840-1880), Orlando and Central Florida could have been called "The Wild South." Cattle raising was the primary way to make a living and the towns in Central Florida looked more like Laredo and Dodge City than towns in Georgia or the Carolinas.
		In 1880 The South Florida Railroad extended its line down into Orlando from Sanford and the rest of the nation.
		Orlando continues to be one of the fastest growing communities in Florida as well as the United States.
	www.cfhf.net /orlando/index1.htm (330 words)

	Welcome to the Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Museum History
		The coming together of persons and events in a rare mix that helped shape today's premier railroad museum in the state of Florida and one of the finer rail museums in the United States.
		President Pearson liked the idea and thus the seed of a South Florida institution was germinated.
		At the same time the Miami Railroad Historical Society (MRHS) was created under the umbrella of the UM to oversee the maintenance and operation of the locomotive on the university property.
	www.goldcoast-railroad.org /history1.htm (483 words)

	South American and International Railroad - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Florida state law chapter 4266, approved June 2, 1893, incorporated the South American and International Railroad Company, owned by Albert W. Gilchrist, of Punta Gorda, Florida, John W Whidden, of Arcadia, Florida, and James G. Gibbes, of Columbia, South Carolina,
		The railroad was promised land grants along its line, provided construction was begun within two years of the act, and at least six miles were complete within three years.
		This page was last modified 09:59, 2 December 2004.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/South_American_and_International_Railroad (111 words)

	South Florida Rescue Railroad : CafePress.com
		South Florida Rescue Railroad was designed to assist 501c3 rescue groups in pulling and transporting Dogs and Cats from high kill facilities in all of South Florida to no-kill rescues.
		Currently 800,000 unwanted pets are killed each year in Florida alone.
		SFRR's goal is to promote spay/neuter and adoption to the community while saving the lives of as many homeless animals as possible throughout South Florida.
	www.cafepress.com /SFRR (111 words)

	Relocating and Moving to Alameda, Alameda County, California
		The advent of the South Florida Railroad brought more and more visitors to nearby Sanford, many of whom migrated to Orlando.
		A growing number of newcomers hail from south of Florida, namely Puerto Rico.
		Situated in the middle of Florida's lakes region.
	www.drelocation.com /florida/orangeco/orlando.htm (329 words)

	Tampa, Florida
		The city of Tampa, situated on an inlet reaching far into the west coast of Florida, is the economic centre of western Florida.
		After the Second Seminole War a port and trading centre was established here, and this soon developed into a regional centre.
		The Civil War brought a period of stagnation, until a boost was given to the town by the construction of the South Florida Railroad.
	www.planetware.com /florida/tampa-us-fl-tampa.htm (241 words)

	South Florida CEO
		He is confident that Scripps’ presence in South Florida will have a profound positive impact on the state economy.
		“This development is a seminal moment in Florida’s history and will propel the state to the forefront of the biotech industry,” Bush said in an Oct. 10, 2003 prepared statement announcing that Scripps would open a center in Palm Beach County.
		A blossoming Scripps Florida could be a campaign showpiece should Bush decide to follow family tradition and run for president in 2008.
	www.southfloridaceo.com /insight50.html (375 words)

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