Description: Railroad map of Hernando County, Florida showing river drainage, cities and towns, roads, and railroads in 1859. Several U.S. Forts are shown as well as the site of Major Dade�s Massacre (1835- Second Seminole War). Township grids based on the Tallahassee basis parallel and the Tallahassee prime meridian shows the extent of land survey in Florida. The map scale is 1:1,140,480.
Source: , Annual Report of the Surveyor General for 1859 (New York, NY: General Land Office, 1859)
Map Credit: Courtesy of the Geography and Map Division of the Library of Congress. |
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