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Detail - Map of the State of Florida showing the progress of the surveys accompanying annual report of the Surveyor General, 1859

Detail - Map of the State of Florida showing the progress of the surveys accompanying annual report of the Surveyor General


Title: Detail - Map of the State of Florida showing the progress of the surveys accompanying annual report of the Surveyor General
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Description: A detail from the 1859 railroad map of Florida showing drainage, cities and towns, roads, railroads, location of the land grant railroads and indicating the 6- and 15-mile limits of grants in the northern Florida peninsula. Township grids based on the Tallahassee basis parallel and the Tallahassee prime meridian. Land office locations are given. The map scale is 1:1,140,480. Manuscript annotation found on map reads: "See Report made to Hon. W. S. Herndon House of Reps. Jany. 17, 1874 Vol 13. p. 147--See to Hon. D. S. Yulu Oct 22nd, 1875." Alachua County is labled "Machua," and Marion County is "Manon."
Place Names: 1840-1859, Gainesville, Jacksonville, Saint Augustine, Tallahassee
ISO Topic Categories: transportation, inlandWaters, boundaries
Keywords: Detail - Map of the State of Florida showing the progress of the surveys accompanying annual report of the Surveyor General, physical, political, transportation, physical features, county borders, railroads, roads, transportation, inlandWaters, boundaries, Unknown,1859
Source: , Annual Report of the Surveyor General (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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