{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2595", "width": "1627", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "v^\\nn\\no 0\\n5\\naX^ r:\\n_^ r\u00c2\u00bb-^_\\n^.J\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i\\nWT^ o^^\\n4\\nNKV^^ ft\\nN\\nr\\nf.i\\nv^\\nx^\\ni\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2,V -5J,.\\nN^^\\nv^;\\nTi^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f*^\\n^^f", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": ".;*:lT *i.\\nIS\\n5-\\n-f\\nA\\no,v\\n\\\\V\\no-\\nA\\n-Wfii^j^\\n.:V\\n-0\\n.0 s\\na Ci,\\nJ^i^\\nV -j^.\\n0^\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of\\n^0\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2x^.\\na\\\\", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": ".-J.^\\ni\u00c2\u00a7\\n.0-", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2513", "width": "1495", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "THBJ\\nGreat Atlantic Coast Line\\nTHE DIRECT ROUTE to\\nCHARLESTON, SAVANNAH, JACKSONVILLE\\nAND ALL POINTS IN\\n53 DVH I X. El S S IKC O I^ T El ]R\\nTHAN BY ANY OTHER ROUTE.\\nFor comfort this route is unexcelled. Its improved passenger transportation\\narrangements for the Fall and Wint.er business of 1873-74 with its\\nDOUBLE DAILY FAST SCHEDULES\\nVia Richmond, Wilmington and Augusta,\\nAnd the advantage of the\\nVia BALTIMORE, PORTSMOUTH AND WELDON,\\nEspecially recommend it to the traveling public as the best and most desirable\\nroute between the\\nFIRST-CLASS PASSENGER COACHES,\\nUnsurpassed in style of modern finish, run through to Wilmington from Rich-\\nmond and Portsmouth, and from Wilmington to Charleston and Augusta.\\n^PULLMAN S ELEGANT PALACE SLEEPING CARS\\nAre run through from\\nBALTIMOEB TO SAVANNAH WITHOUT CHANGE!\\nThus affording through sleeping car accomodations on\\none continuous schedule between\\nBALTIMORE AND SAVANNAH.\\nTRAINS RUN WITH SPEED, REGULARITY AND CERTAINTY OP CON-\\nNECTION, AND PASSENGERS AVOID ALL MIDNIGHT CHANGES.\\nFIItST-CZiASS EATINQ HOUSES along the entire line, where ample\\ntime is afforded and at suitable hours.\\nBaggaffe Checked Through. Tickets Good Until Used,\\nWith privilege of stopping oflf at all terminal points.\\nTHROUGH TICKETS sold throughout the East to all points South via this line\\nand all information given at the principal Railroad OfBoes, North and South.\\nGeneral Office 397 Broadway, New York.\\nW. J, WALKER, A. POPE,\\nGeneral Agent. Geu l Freight Ticket Agent.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "Brid*^\\n^A", "height": "2842", "width": "2147", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "SEWI NG M ACHINES.\\nTlie sales of Sewing Machines in 1873, as reported under oath, in 1873, to the owners of\\nthe Sewing Machine Patents, show that the\\nI\\nManufacturing Co.\\nLAST YEAR SOLD\\n219,758\\nMACHI NES,\\nOR\\n38,498 more than in 1871,\\nNinety per Cent, of them being for\\nE^^M^ILY USE.\\nTHIS IS OVER,\\n4 6 O O O\\nMore Sewing Machines than were sold by any other company during the same\\nperiod, and over\\nOf all the MacMnes sold in 1872.\\n9Mm Mim^m^ Mmmmimmtmwims Cm\u00c2\u00ae\\nJACKSONVILLE, FLORIDA.\\nGeneral Office, No. 172 Broughton Street, Savannah, Gra-\\nLocal Agents in the principal Towns and Cities.", "height": "2783", "width": "1932", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "fi\\nm\\nm\\nM\\nM\\na\\n3\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0D\\nn\\nS\\nH\\no\\no\\nrt\\no\\ni\\no -d\\nCO o\\nh\\nGP\\nCO\\no\\nj\\no\\n1\\nI\\nO\\n(6\\n0 o\\n2\\nn\\ncq S\\nH\\nto\\nX 1\\n0)\\no\\nm\\no\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a\\nS", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "Ttt\u00c2\u00a3 IhW^ Of ftOWE^S/\\n7\\nCONTAIKING AN\\nHISTORICAL SKETCH, GEOGRAPHICAL. AGRICULTURAL AND\\nCLIMATIC STATISTICS, ROUTES OF TRAVEL BY LAND\\nAND SEA, AND GENERAL INFORMATION\\nINVAI.UABI.E TO THE\\nJnualili, tourist ot (Jtmiioirant.\\n^JL.^-%^\\nuC\\\\^\\\\j^f\\nEntered according to Act of Congrees, in the yeai- 1873, by the\\nRAILROAD AND REAL ESTATE PUBLISHING BUREAU,\\nin the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.\\nPTXBLISHED EX THE _^\\nRailhoad and Real. Estate PuBLisHiNa Bcbbau,\\nKEW TOKK,\\n1873.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2k%iif)i ^i", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "CHAELESTOIT, SOUTH CAEOLIITA.\\nM O\\nThis well-known and popular first-class Ilotcl, situated in the centre of\\nthe City, and also in the centre of the Wholesale Business Houses, affords\\nfacilities, comforts and attention to Travelers for pleasure, and Merchants on\\nbusiness, second to none in the United States.\\nHaving been recently thoroughly repaired and newly furnished throughout,\\nthe Proprietor pledges himself to spare no pains in its management to main-\\ntain the high reputation heretofore enjoyed by the old CHA.JtI.ESTOK\\nas a first-class house.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2E. H. JACKSON CO.,\\nJProprivtorst\\nGeneral Railway and Steamship Ticket Offlce. Through Tickets sold by\\nRail to all points in the United States, and by Rail or Steamship to BALTI-\\nMORE, PHILADELPHIA and NEW YORK.\\nA. BUTTEEPIELD, General Ticket Agent,\\nP3l^ CHARLESTON HOTEL.\\n0S3", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "V\\ny;^4\\nGuide to Florida.\\nFive years after Christopher Columbus first saw land in\\nthe New World, another navigator, Sebastian Cabot, sailing\\nunder the English flag, discovered the coast of Florida.\\nThis was in 1497. It was not until the spring of 15 12\\nthat the Europeans made a permanent landing. A veteran\\ncavalier of Spain, Juan Ponce de Leon, impelled by a\\nromantic fancy that in the West there existed a fountain\\nwhose waters restored the aged to perpetual youth, raised\\nan expedition of enthusiasts like himself and set sail on\\nthis wondrous voyage of discovery. He saw the coast for\\nthe first time on Easter Sunday, in April, 15 12, which day\\nthe Spaniards call Pasqua Florida, and because the\\ncharming country spread before him was fairly radiant\\nwith wild flowers, he gave it the beautiful nam^of Florida.\\nThis landing was made near the site of the present city of\\nSt. Augustine\\nThe cavalier s search for the immortal spring was\\nfruitless. The Indians harassed and picked off his band\\nwith poisoned arrows, and he was finally forced to quit\\nthe country. He carried with him to Cuba a mortal\\nwound which caused his death soon after his arrival there.\\nA dozen years later Spain again attempted to colonize the\\npeninsula. Narvaez was appointed Governor and landed", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "4 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nwith three hundred men. He made no attempt at settle-\\nment however, but wandered off on an exploring expedi-\\ntion, and after many hardships, finally reached the far off\\ncountry of the Mexicans. The illustrious Ferdinand de\\nSoto, the discoverer of the Mississippi river, followed him\\nto Florida. He landed in Tampa Bay with a thousand\\nfollowers, in the spring of 1539. His march through the\\ninterior was disputed at every step by the aborigines, and\\nhis little army was so decimated by war, fatigue and sick-\\nness, that when his own body was committed to the bosom\\nof the Father of Waters two years later, but a third of\\nthem survived.\\nThe first actual settlement of Florida was made oy the\\nFrench Huguenots who, under Jean Ribault, attempted to\\nplant a colony at the mouth of the St. Johns River in\\n1564. This roused the ire of the Spaniards, who claimed\\nthe country as their own, and an expedition was sent out\\nunder the command of Don Pedro Menendez to extermi-\\nnate the Frenchmen. The Don did his bloody work\\neffectually. The little French city was taken by surprise,\\nand all of its inhabitants were massacred. Above their\\nbodies, which he had suspended from the trees, Menendez\\nleft this inscription Not because they are Frenchmen,\\nbut because they are heretics and enemies of God. But\\nvengeance ^n. the cruel Castilians was swift. Three years\\nlater an expedition under De Gourgues, a Huguenot gen-\\ntleman, set sail from France, and landing at St. Augustine,\\nwhich the Spaniards had just built, attacked and took it\\nafter a severe battle. A portion of the garrison were\\ntaken to the site of the ruined French settlement on the\\nSt. Johns, and there hung to the same trees, with this\\ninscription over their heads: Not because they are\\nSpaniards, but because they are traitors, robbers and mur-\\nderers.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 5\\nIt was in i56 5 that Menendez founded the city of\\nSt. Augustine, the oldest within the present limits of\\nthe United States. From this foothold colonies were sent\\nout along the coast and into the interior of the province,\\nand for an hundred years or more Florida was a growing\\nand thriving Spanish colony. The Indians were almost\\nuniformly hostile, but the superior civilization prevailed\\nover them. Many vestiges of the early Spanish settle-\\nments in the State remain to show what the country was at\\nthis flourishing era of its history. The period of its deca-\\ndence was at the conclusion of the great Continental war\\nof 1753-60, when it passed from Spain into the possession\\nof Great Britain. In the meantime it had been the scene\\nof many conflicts. The English, under Sir Francis Drake,\\nattacked and plundered St. Augustine in 1586. It was\\npillaged by the Indians in 161 1, and sacked by the Buc-\\ncaneers in 1665. Governor Moore, of South Carolina,\\nraided into the colony in 1702, and unsuccessful attempts\\nwere made by the Georgians in 1725, 1740 and 1743 to\\ncapture and destroy St. Augustine.\\nIn 1763 Spain ceded the whole territory of Florida to\\nGreat Britain. So greatly had its prosperity declined that\\nits population did not exceed 600. In 1781, the Spaniards\\ncaptured Pensacola, and three years later, by virtue of the\\ntreaty of 1784, they resumed jurisdiction over the country.\\nDuring the last war with Great Britain the English troops\\nunder Col. Nichols occupied Pensacola, but General Jack-\\nson appearing before the town, they decamped to their\\nfleet. Jackson, while fighting the Indians in 1818, was so\\naffronted by the conduct of the Spanish governor that he\\ntook possession of Pensacola and sent the Spanish prison-\\ners to Havana.\\nThe Spanish government recognized manifest destiny\\nin 1819, and consented to the cession of the entire terri-", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "6 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\ntory of Florida to the United States. The exchange of\\nflags took place in 1821, a territorial government was\\nestablished in 1822, and Florida was admitted as a State\\ninto the Union in 1845.\\nFrom the time of the cession down almost to our own\\nday, there have raged those desolating Indian wars which\\nreddened the border settlements with the blood of Avhite\\nmen, women and children, and made the Everglades re-\\nsound with the dying whoop of the hunted Seminole. The\\nstory of the valor of Coa-cou-chee, of Osceola, and of\\nLittle Cloud, fighting the last battles of their race for the\\nhunting grounds of their ancestors, has passed into poetry\\nand romance.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Florida, like her sister Southern States, was a battle-\\nground between North and South in the late civil war.\\nAfter the passage of the ordinance of secession in 1861,\\nFort Pickens in Pensacola harbor, was invested by the Con-\\nfederate troops, and the Navy Yard was occupied. Fer-\\nnandina and St. Augustine were captured by Admiral\\nDupont s fleet in 1862. The following month the United\\nStates forces occupied Jacksonville, and the Confederate\\nauthorities abandoned nearly the whole of Northern and\\nWestern Florida, including Pensacola, and withdrew their\\narmy into Georgia. The year 1864 was characterized by\\nraids on both sides. General Birney penetrated to Trent\\nCreek, and the Confederate salt works at Ocala were de-\\nstroyed. In February of this year General Trueman Sey-\\nmour marched westward with a large body of United\\nStates troops, and at Olustee was disastrously defeated by\\nthe Confederate army under General Joseph Finegan.\\nHe retreated wirh a loss of 1200 meh, leaving his dead\\nand wounded on the field and during the remaining\\nmonths of the war the Federals were on the defensive.\\nAfter the surrender of Gcaeral Lee, at Appomattox,", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 7\\nVirginia, the people of Florida abandoned further re-\\nsistance, and the State was duly reconstructed by Con-\\ngress.\\nThe State of Florida extends from the parallel of 31\u00c2\u00b0\\nNorth latitude to 25\u00c2\u00b0 North latitude, and lies within 80\u00c2\u00b0\\nand 88\u00c2\u00b0 West longitude from Greenwicl L It is in the\\nsame latitude with the Desert of Saliara, Southern China\\nand Northern Mexico, but its comparative degree of heat\\nis not accurately indicated by its latitude, for it is isother-\\nmal with the Bermudas, Egypt, Northern Hindostan,\\nSouthern California and Louisiana, Moreover, lying\\nbetween the Gulf of Mexico and the Gulf Stream, its main\\nportion is fanned by ocean breezes which materially modify\\nthe temperature.\\nThe shape of the State has been likened to that of a\\nboot; the foot part being Northern Florida, and the leg\\nbeing the peninsula. The first extends about 350 miles\\nfrom East to West, and the peninsula 400 miles from North\\nto South, and ninety miles, on the average, from East to\\nWest. The Gulf Stream skirts the Eastern coast about\\n300 miles. The State contains 59,868 square miles, or\\n37,931,520 acres, and is therefore a little larger than\\nGeorgia, Illinois or Michigan, and almost as large as the\\nNew England States or the rnited kingdoms of Portugal,\\nBelgium and the Netherlands. The extent of her coast\\nline is rather extraordinary. It is not less than i, 100 miles\\na distance nearly equal to that from Portland, Maine, to\\nJacksonville, Florida, in a straight line.\\nThe surface of the eastern section of the State is gener-\\nally level. In Western Florida it is rolling or hilly. The", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "8 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nextreme southern part is covered with swamps. The coast\\nis indented with thousands of bays and inlets formed by\\nthe jutting of the land, and by innumerable islands. The\\nprincipal rivers are the Apalachicola, which has its source\\nin the mountains of Upper Georgia the beautiful Suwanee,\\nin Middle Florida the Withlacoochee, the Ocklawha and\\nthe Indian River, in Southern Florida. The great stream\\nof the State, however, is the magnificent St. Johns, which\\nrises in the Everglades, and. winds northward a distance of\\nfour hundred miles until it empties into the Atlantic Ocean\\nbelow Jacksonville.\\nThe peninsula is filled with beautiful lakes, some of them\\nbeing navigable for large steamers, and one of them. Lake\\nOkeechobee, in the Everglades, being fully forty miles\\nlong and thirty miles wide. The lake scenery, in the\\nneighborhood of the upper waters of the St. John, is un-\\nsurpassed in loveliness. Several of the larger bays on the\\ncoast deserve notice. Tampa Bay, Apalachee Bay and Pen-\\nsacola Bay, are broad and deep enough to float navies.\\nThe State abounds in remarkable mineral springs. The\\nWakulla River rises about ten miles northwest of St. Marks\\nfrom one of them. The water is moderately cold and\\nhighly impregnated with lime. From the big spring of\\nChipola bursts a furious river Silver Spring, in Marion\\nCotmty, is a basin of surpassingly clear and deep water.\\nThe Sulphur Springs of- the Suwanee are a curiosity, and\\nenjoy a local reputation for curing rheumatism, dyspepsia\\nand other kindred diseases. Springs of salt water are\\nnot uncommon in the interior.\\nScientists say that the geological formation of Florida is\\nof comparatively recent origin. The opinion of one of\\nthem, relative to the peninsula, is expressed in this lan-\\nguage The whole peninsula has been formed by the\\nsuccessive growth of coral reefs added concentrically from", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nNorth to South to the first deposits, while the accumula-\\ntion between these reefs has been a mixture of coral and\\nfragments of shells, the coral prevailing in some parts, as\\nin the regions of the Everglades, and in other portions,\\nespecially the Northern and Eastern, the shell. Agassiz\\nassumes, of the lower half of the peninsula, that if the\\ngrowth be one foot in a century from a depth of seventy-\\nfive feet, and that each successive reef has added ten miles\\nof extent southward, it would have required, on this com-\\nputation, 135,000 years to have formed the southern half\\nof the peninsula. The upper part of Florida is, of course,\\nmuch older.\\nE\u00c2\u00bbrpQi fiige.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^%njtpa Tree.", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "lo GUIDE TO FLORIDA,\\nFlorida undoubtedly possesses the most equable and\\nsalubrious climate, all the year round, of any State in the\\nUnion. The thermometer seldom rises above 90\u00c2\u00b0 in the\\nsummer, nor falls below 30\u00c2\u00b0 in the winter. The summer\\nmay be said to be seven months long, but the heat is not\\nintense. This is attributable in a great degree to the\\ncircumstance that the peninsula is fanned on the East by\\nthe Atlantic breezes, and on the West by those of the\\nGulf of Mexico, both of which can be sensibly felt in the\\nmiddle of the State.\\nThe winter in Florida resembles very much the season\\nknown in more northern latitudes as the Indian Summer.\\nThe climate of Florida, however, has the additional ad-\\nvantage of being more dry and elastic. Rain falls rarely\\nduring the winter months. Five out of six days are bright\\nand cloudless, and of the most agreeable temperature. In\\nSouthern Florida frost very rarely appears. Even as far\\nnorth as the Suwanee River there are generally but two or\\nthree nights in a whole winter when ice as thick as a half\\ndollar is found. A consequence of the evenness of the\\ntemperature is the very delightful salubrity of the nights\\nin the sultriest season of the year, by which the body is\\nrefreshed, the sleep rendered sound, and the natural facul-\\nties are restored to vigor.\\nThe following tables show the range of the thermometer\\nthroughout the year in Florida, and the evenness of the\\ntemperature as compared with that of given points in the\\nNorthern States.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. ii\\nObservations made at Jacksonville for five years, from\\n1857 to 1861, both inclusive, showing the highest and\\nlowest range of the Thermometer each mottth. The\\nfigures are the mean of three daily observations\\nMonths.\\nJanuary...\\nFebruary.\\nMarch..\\n\\\\pril\\nMty\\nJiiuo\\nJjiy\\nAuff i?t.\\nSeptember\\nOctober\\nNovember.\\nDecember.\\n1857.\\n1858.\\n1859.\\n1860.\\n1861.\\nH.\\nL.\\nH.\\nL.\\nn.\\nL.\\nH.\\nL.\\nB.\\nL.\\n72\\n16\\n76\\n38\\n76\\n30\\n76\\n40\\nfil\\n44\\n77\\n39\\n79\\n39\\n79\\n44\\n75\\n42\\n\u00c2\u00ab5\\n41\\n83\\n34\\n84\\n45\\n83\\n40\\n83\\n43\\n81\\n47\\n86\\n49\\n89\\n53\\n92\\n58\\n80\\n54\\n91\\n61\\n91\\n66\\n92\\n64\\n92\\n58\\n94\\n64\\n91\\n73\\n92\\n73\\n94\\n70\\n97\\n69\\n98\\n73\\n89\\n68\\n96\\n74\\n95\\n70\\n98\\n74\\n92\\n70\\n95\\n75\\n94\\n75\\n91\\n75\\n93\\n73\\n91\\n73\\n92\\n64\\n86\\n64\\n92\\n70\\n89\\n65\\n92\\n58\\n81\\n42\\n85\\n62\\n84\\n50\\n87\\n53\\n86\\n57\\n82\\n27\\n79\\n39\\n79\\n35\\n80\\n25\\n79\\n45\\n80\\n39\\n78\\n40\\n79\\n36\\n72\\n32\\n74\\n38\\nREMARKS.\\nIce one to two in-\\nches thick, Jau.\\n19th and 20th, 1857.\\nAt 7 A. M., Nov.\\n25, 1860, the Ther-\\nmometer stood at\\n25 deg.\\nIt is proper to observe that there is a marked difference\\nin the theometric range at Enterprise, two hundred miles\\nsouth of Jacksonville, the temperature being much more\\neven.\\nThe following is a comparative table, showing the monthly\\nand yearly mean of twenty years at St. Augustine, of\\nthirty-one years at West Point, and of thirty five years\\nat Fort Snelling, Minn.\\nSt. Auviiettn\\nFla\\nWest Point,\\nN. Y.\\nFt. Snelling\\nMinn.\\nJan\\n57.03\\n23.28\\n13.7(J\\nFeb.\\n59.94\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2JS.80\\n17.57\\nMar.\\nApl.May\\n68.7873.50\\n79.36\\n48.70\\n59.8;\\n31.41 06.34 58.97\\nJun\\n63.41\\n08.46\\nJuly\\n80.90\\n73.75\\nAug\\n80.5(i\\n71.83\\nSep,\\nOct.\\n78.60 71.1\\nNov.\\n64.12\\nDec.\\n57.26 69.61\\n64.31 53.04 42.23 31.98 50.73\\n58.86 47.1531 67 16.8946.54", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "12 GUIDE TO FLORIDA\\nIn Florida an extraordinary variety of valuable produc-\\ntions are successfully cultivated. Lying as it does partly\\nwithin the temperate zone and partly within the semi-\\ntropical regions, within its limits may be seen flourishing\\nmost of the vegetation familiar to the soil of the Middle\\nand Western States, together with the fruits of the West\\nIndies. At least one-fourth of the entire area of the State\\nis south of the line of frost, and will grow successfully the\\norange, the lemon, the citron, the grape fruit, the banana,\\nthe pine-apple, and the cocoa-nut. Most of the tropical\\ntrees and shrubs grow spontaneously. Tobacco, sugar and\\nhemp have been cultivated to some extent, and can be\\nmade very valuable productions if systematically treated.\\nThe yield of sugar is much more to the acre than in Louis-\\niana. Cotton has hitherto been the leading staple. In-\\ndian corn has been largely raised, but not in sufficient\\nquantities to supply the home demand. Within a few\\nyears the raising of early vegetables for the Northern trade\\nhas been commenced, with great success, on the St. Johns\\nRiver, and along the railroads. Among the vegetables\\nwhich are readily grown and bring remunerative prices,\\nare tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, green peas, beans, cab-\\nbages, turnips, beets, squashes, onions, asparagus, and\\nsweet and Irish potatoes. Wheat has been partially culti-\\nvated in the northern part of the State. The Ramie plant\\nhas just been introduced, and it is believed will become\\nan important staple. Arrowroot, indigo, the castor bean^\\ncan be raised without difficulty. The large growth of the\\nMulberry renders the conditions favorable to the produc-\\ntion of the silk worm. There is no reason why tea and\\ncoffee cannot be cultivated, as the climate and soil are\\nespecially adapted to the purpose. Of the fruits other\\nthan tropical, the peach, grape, fig, pomegranate and plum\\nare produced. Berries grow profusely.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 13\\nFlorida is the best timbered State in the Union. Over\\n30,000,000 of acres are covered with heavy forests. The\\nbusiness of cutting and shipping lumber is large and in-\\ncreasing. Florida also exports naval stores, and at Key\\nWest there are extensive salt works. Further remarks on\\nthe soil and productiveness of the State will be found in\\nthe paragraphs devoted to the advantages of Florida for\\nimmigrants.\\nAccording to the census of 1870 the population of Flor-\\nida aggregates 187,748; of which 96,057 are whites and\\n91,689 blacks. This shows a proportion of a fraction over\\nthree inhabitants to the square mile; a density about\\nequal to that of the States of Kansas and Texas. The\\npopulation of the State in i860 was 140,123, so that in\\nspite of the ravages caused by the civil war, the increase\\nin ten years has been 47,625, or thirty-four per cent.\\nThe leading cities and towns in the State are Jackson-\\nville with a population of 13,000, Fernandina with 2,500,\\nTallahassee with 2,500, St. Augustine with 3,500, Lake\\nCity with 2,000, Pensacola with 2,000, Gainesville with\\n1,500, Key West with 5,000; Palatka with 1,000, Quincy\\nwith 800, and Apalachicola with 1,000.\\nThe seat of government is at Tallahassee. The new\\nconstitution, adopted by the people and approved by\\nCongress in 1868, vests the executive power in a Gover-\\nnor, who is elected for four years. He is assisted in his\\ndeliberations by a Cabinet, composed of the principal\\nofficers in the State, viz the Secretary of State, the\\nAttorney-General, the Comptroller, the State Treasurer,\\nthe Surveyor General, the Superintendent of Instruc-", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "14 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\ntion and the Commissioner of Immigration. This is a\\nnovel feature in the framework of a State government, but\\nwas suggested by the success of the arrangement in the\\nFederal system. The legislative power is vested in a\\nSenate and Assembly. The former consists of twenty-\\nfour members, elected for four years the latter of fifty-\\nthree members, elected for two years. The judicial pow-\\ner is vested in a Supreme Court, Circuit Courts, County\\nCourts and Justices of the Peace. The Judges of the Su-\\npreme Court are appointed for life, of the Circuit Courts\\nfor eight years, and of the County Courts for four years.\\nThe election for State and County Officers and Members\\nof the Legislature takes place the first Tuesday after the\\nfirst Monday in November. Annual Sessions of the Legis-\\nlature are held, beginning on the first Tuesday after the\\nfirst Monday in January.\\nThe present State government (1873-4) is as follows\\nGovernor, Ossian B. Hart.\\nLieutenant-Governor, M. L. Stearns.\\nSecretary of State, Geo. J. Alden.\\nComptroller. Robert H. Gamble.\\nTreasurer, S. B. Conover.\\nAttorney-General, J. B, C. Drew.\\nCommissioner of Immigra-\\nV T. S. Adams.\\ntion, f\\nSuperintendent of Public _ _,\\nI Charles Beecher.\\nInstruction,\\nAt the last Presidential election in the State (1872) the\\nvote was as follows Grant, 17,765 Greeley, 15,428 Re-\\npubUcan majority, 2,337. The Republicans elected two\\nmajority in the State Senate, and three majority in the\\nHouse of Representatives.\\nFlorida, though one of the first-settled countries on this\\ncontinent, has really all the characteristics of a new State.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TP FLORIDA. 15\\nIts scanty population has been scattered over a territory\\nof nearly 60,000 square miles, and has heretofore been en-\\ngaged almost wholly in agriculture. The social conveni-\\nences and advantages enjoyed in the thickly-settled States\\nfurther North must not, therefore, be expected here. But\\nimmigration is pouring in and the State is rapidly im-\\nproving. Schools and churches are to be found in all the\\ntowns and villages throughout the State, and a new sys-\\ntem of public education has been provided for in the new\\nconstitution. In reference to the feeling of the old inhab-\\nitants towards new comers, the State Commissioner of Im-\\nmigration, Mr. Adam\u00c2\u00bb, (himself a Northern man) writes\\nIn our correspondence the question is often asked:\\nIs it safe for a Northern man to come to Florida The\\nanswer is That there is no sort of danger whatever. The\\nimmigrant of good character and habits will be readily\\nreceived by all. Southern men and women are not su-\\nper-human, and cannot be expected suddenly to absolve\\nthemselves from the domination of those trains of political\\nthought and those prevalent social notions that have ruled\\nthem for years, or to sympathize at once with the political\\nideas of a triumphant radicalism. But the whole popula-\\ntion of the State is becoming rapidly convinced that\\nmen, money and labor, are to be watch-words in the\\nsuccess of the future of Florida. Indeed, any\\ngood citizen that proposes to pay special attention to his\\nown affairs, will be welcomed by all, and this without any\\nsacrifice of principle or any abridgment of his rights of\\nfree thought and free speech. Northern men and women,\\nwho may come and persist in associating exclusively with\\neach other, and sequester themselves diligently from all\\nsocial intercourse with old residents, will be allowed thus\\nto indulge their social predilections without let or hin-\\ndrance.", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "i6 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nThe All-Rail Routes.\\nVisitors to Florida, going from the North, make Sa-\\nvannah the first objective point. It can be reached from\\nEastern points via connecting lines to Baltimore, From\\nN. Y. by the N. Y. and Phila. R. R., rmining through\\ntrains to which are attached cars having all the modern\\nimprovements to Baltimore, Washington and Richmond.\\nFrom Baltimore, via Bay Li7ie oi Stea77iers to Portsmouth,\\nVa., connecting with Atlantic Coast Line, Or, From\\nWashington, via ^//i?a//, or Acquia Creek, to Richmond; at\\nRichmond two routes compete for the travel the Upper\\nRoute, via Danville, Charlotte and Augusta, and the\\nAtlantic Coast Line, via Petersburg, Wilmington and\\nCharleston. The Great Southern Mail Route,\\nvia Washington, Lynchburg, Knoxville, Chattanooga,\\nAtlanta, Macon, and Jesup Junction, giving the tourist\\nan opportunity to visit the most interesting localities in\\nthe entire South.\\nTravelers from points North and West of the Ohio\\nRiver will find at the Railroad Ticket Offices in all of the\\nprincipal cities schedules, giving the distances and time\\nto Savannah and Florida.\\nFrom Cleveland, Columbus, Cincinnati, Toledo, De-\\ntroit, places on Lakes Erie and Michigan, and points\\nNorth and East of Louisville, the Short Line is via\\nLouisville and Nashville R. R. From St. Louis, and\\npoints North and West, the most direct route is via the\\nSt. Louis and Iron Mountain R. R.\\nThe Rail connections, North and West, are in excellent\\ncondition. Drawing Room and Palace Sleeping Cars are\\nattached to all Through Trains. Polite and attentive\\nConductors and good Eating Houses on the entire route.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 17\\nSchedules of the diiferent routes will be found on adver-\\ntisement pages at back of book.\\nThrough Tickets For Sale at\\nBOSTOIV\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At Slf, T9, S2 134 Washington Street; Boston\\nProvidence Depot; Boston Albany Depot; Old Colony\\nDepot; No. 3 Old State House; Boston, Hartford Erie De-\\npot; and No. 15 U. S. Hotel Block.\\nTXT:^\u00c2\u00a5 YORK\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At 229, 263, 303, 397 944 Bdway,\\n9 Astor House and all the principal Hotels and at foot Court-\\nlandt Street. BROOKLYN 1 Court Street, City Hall Square.\\nPHIL.ADEI.PHIA\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At 409, 700 \u00c2\u00a728 Chestnut st.; Ex-\\nchange in Continental Hotel 44 South Fifth Street; and at the\\nPhiladelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore Depot, corner Broad\\nand Prime Streets.\\nBAl.TIj i *RE\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At the Camden Street Station, Baltimore and\\nOhio Railroad Depot; 149 150 W Baltimore st. S. E. cor-\\nner Baltimore and Calvert Street.\\nWASHBi^JGTOIV At Adams Express Building, opposite Balti-\\nmore Depot; at the Maryland Avenue Depot at 511 603\\nPeunsylv-ania Avenue; Steamers, foot 7lh Street; and at the\\nprincipal Hotels.\\nAlso at the Railroad Ticket Offices in Richmond, Charleston, Macon,\\nAtlanta, Nashville, Memphis, Louisville, St, Louis and New\\nOrleans\\nBy Sea to Florida.\\nFrom New York, Boston, Philadelphia and Baltimore.\\n(By Steamship to Savannah and Rail to Florida.)\\nThe Sea Routes from New York are via New York and\\nSavannah Steamships, consisting of three lines of com-\\nmodious and well appointed Steamers. The Leo and\\nVirgo, of Murray, Ferris Go s Line, sail from Pier i6\\nEast River, alternately on Tuesdays. The Steamships ITer-\\nmmi Livifigston, Genl. Barnes, San Jacinto and San\\nSalvador, of the Empire Line, from Pier 8, North River,\\non all Thursdays and Saturdays, W. R. Garrison, Agent,\\nNo. 5 Bowling Green and the Steamships Huntsville and", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "i8 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nMontgomery of the Black Star Line, will also leave Pier\\n13, North River, every Saturday. Robt. Lowden,\\nAgent, 93 West Street.\\nThe New York and Charleston Line of Steamships,\\ncomposed of staunch and favorite vessels, thoroughly sea-\\nworthy and Avell-appointed in every respect, consisting of\\nthe James Adger, Manhattan, South Carolina, Champion,\\nGeorgia, and Charleston, sell Through Tickets, via the Sa-\\nvannah and Charleston R. R., to all points in Florida.\\nTheir sailing days are Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays,\\nfrom Pier 29 North River. H. H. Morgan Co., Agents.\\nBy Sea, from Boston.\\nThe Boston and Savannah S. S. Co. dispatch the new\\nand elegant Steamers Seminole and Oriental, on the loth,\\n20th and 30th of each month returning, leave Savannah\\non the same dates. Through Tickets to all points in Flor-\\nida sold by F. Nickerson Co., Agents 205 State Street,\\nBoston.\\nBy Sea, from Philadelphia.\\nThe Philadelphia and Southern Mail Steamship Co.\\nhave a weekly line to Savannah, leaving every Saturday,\\nfrom Queen Street Wharf. The Wyoming and (J. W. Lord\\nare noted as first-class vessels, and have obtained a most en-\\nviable reputation for the regularity of their trips. Through\\nTickets sold to all points in Florida and the interior of\\nGeorgia and Alabama. W. L. James, Agent, 237 and 239\\nDock Street, Philadelphia.\\nBy Sea, from Baltimore.\\nThe Baltimore and Savannah Steamship Compan\\ndespatch, at intervals of five days, one of theu", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 19\\nthoroughly sea-worthy and commodious Steamers to Sa-\\nvannah. The Line is extremely well managed, and the\\nAmerica, Saragossa, and JYorth Point are commanded by\\nexperienced and able officers. Through Tickets to all\\npoints in Florida and the interior are sold by the Agent,\\nJames B. Andrews, Flannigan s Wharf, Baltimore.\\nFrom Charleston and Savannah to Florida.\\nThe quickest and most comfortable route is via the Sa-\\nvannah and Charleston and Atlantic and Gulf Railways.\\nTravelers and invalids avoid the discomforts and risks at-\\ntendant upon a sea voyage along an exposed, and at times,\\nstormy coast. The Bar of the St. Johns, at Jacksonville,\\n\\\\Fla., is frequently so rough that steamers are unable to\\ncross it, and great inconvenience and suffering from sea-v\\nsickness has been experienced by travelers, from thia\\ncause. To those who are proof against the mal-de-mer,\\nand prefer the sea, there is a weekly line of boats from\\nCharleston and Savannah to Jacksonville. The passenger\\nby Rail will have the advantage of Palace Sleeping Cars\\nrunning through, without change, from Savannah to Jack-\\nsonville, where boats connect with the St. Johns River\\nand the St. Augustine Railroad. The route of the Atlan-\\ntic and Gulf Railroad is through the south-eastern section\\nof Georgia. If connects with the Florida net-work of\\nrailroads at Live-Oak Station, in Florida, and this brings\\nit in close railway and steamboat connection with all prin-\\ncipal points in the State. The Express Train of the Atlan-\\ntic and Gulf Railroad leaves Savannah daily, at 5.00 p. m.,\\nand through passengers are due at Jacksonville in 15\\nhours, at Tallahassee in 18 hours, at St. Marks, on the\\n}ulf of Mexico, in 19}^ hours, and at Cedar Keys, in\\nbouth- western Florida, in 25^^ hours. At Jacksonville\\nthere is daily steamboat connection with all the towns and", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "20 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nlandings on the St. Johns River. See advertisement of\\nBrock s Line\\nFlorida can also be reached from New Orleans by\\nSteamers of the New Orleans, Florida and Havana S. S.\\nCo., which touch at Cedar Keys, en route to Key West\\nand Havana. Northern visitors to Florida, who wish to\\nreturn home either by the way of Havana or the Missis-\\nsippi River can avail themselves of this convenient route,\\nembarking at Cedar Keys. I. K. Roberts, Agent New\\nOrleans, Florida and Havana S. S- Co., New Orleans, La.\\nIt has been well said that no part of the United States\\ncan furnish a more exciting and agreeable winter hunting-\\nground than Indian River and the Gulf Coast. Turkeys,\\nDucks, Squirrels, Deer and Bear are to be found through-\\nout the State. The hunter in the Indian river region\\nmay comfortably camp out, month after month, with a\\nsingle blanket, taking as he needs his sweet potatoes from\\nthe ground, and the orange, lemon and banana from the\\nplantations along the route, and in the continuous sunshine\\nof an unending spring surfeit himself with the pursuit of\\ngame.\\nIn the rivers and bays of Florida the lover of angling\\nwill find his real paradise. They literally swarm with\\nvaluable fish. Mullet, Bass, Sheepshead, Trout, Perch\\nsalt water and fresh and innumerable other varieties\\nabound. The fish caught in the Lower St. Johns will run\\nfrom one to forty pounds in weight. Lakes Harney and\\nJessup are abundantly stocked with fish of excellent\\nquality, which are easily caught with nets, hooks or spears.\\nJ", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "IMPORTANT TO TOURISTS AND INVALIDS.\\nPAVOniTB nOUTE TO PLOniD A\\nVIA\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nBALTIMORE,PORTSMOUTH WELDON,\\nPopularly known to the traveling public as the\\nK#WWH\u00c2\u00ab\\nOne op the Magnificent Bat Line Steamers\\nLeaves Baltimore Daily, except Sundays, at 4 P. M.\\nConnecting at Portsmouth, next morning, with Aix Rah. for\\nf iiniiigtoD, ColMtila, Amsta, Ctiarlestoii, SaTaiinali, anl\\nALL FLORIDA^ POINTS I\\n^0~ The Steamers of this line are the most elegant south of New York, are\\nfurnished with every comfort, are lighted with Gas, provided with Bath\\nRooms, and are supplied with all improvements calculated to insure the\\nCOMFOMT and ENJOTMEJiToi the XRAVEI^EB.\\nHaving access to the Markets of Baltimore and Norfolk, unquestion-\\nably the best in the country, passengers will find the Favfs provided on\\nthese Steamers to be equal to any Motel or Sestaurant in tlie\\ncountry.\\nTrains RUN THROUGH to WILMINGTON, froi Portsiontli, Witliont Change.\\nAt Wilmington take Sleeping Car through to Charleston or\\nAugusta and arrive at Savannah the following afternoon.\\nSUI rEIC and SREASEAST, and an ENTIRE NIGHT S JRE8X\\non the SA T IINE STEAMERS.\\nQuick Time, Luxurious Fare, and superior State-Room Accommodations.\\nBaggage Checked Through to all principal Southern Points.\\no\\nf~ Passengers Xenving NEW YORK at 9:00 A. M. and PHIIiA-\\nJ EIiJPIHIA at 12.00 M., make close connection tct Raltimore\\nWith Say Liine Steamersm\\nPULLMAN S PALACE SLEEPING CARS\\nOn all Night Trains connecting with this line.\\nTICKETS GOOD VNTII, VSED, with the privilege of stopping over\\nat all Terminal Points, can be obtained at all Principal Ticket Offices, North\\nand South. Schedules giving time and all necessary information can be ol\\ntained wherever Through Tickets are sold.\\nW.J.WALKER, EMMET 3ROWN,\\nGeneral Passenger Agent. General Ticket Agent.", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "St. Augustine, Fla.,\\nE. E. VAILL CO., Proprietors.\\nThis new and elegant Hotel has accommodations for 200 guests,\\nand is most delightfully situated on the Plaza facing the South\\nThe house is provided with every modern improvement, is light\\ned with G-as, has a\\nEilMari Moom^ EowliBg Allejj etc.\\nattached. An ICE HOUSE has just been erected, and a EESTAU-\\nEANT opened where aU the luxuries of the season are to be found.\\nThe St. Augustine Hotel commands a\\nTHE BAY AND HARBOR OF ST. AUGUSTINE,\\nand a Birds-eye View of the City itself.\\nThe proprietors will endeavor to make their guests as comfort-\\nable as possible, no pains having been spared in providing the best\\nhelp from the North.\\nThe Prices of Board vary according to location of room and\\nlength of stay.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\n23\\nAlligator hunting is a sport peculiar to these southern\\nlatitudes and can be enjoyed to perfection along the\\nrivers, lakes and lagoons of Florida. It takes a practiced\\neye to detect an alligator, for it closely resembles a rotten\\nlog, half-submerged and motionless. Shooting the alliga-\\ntor from the decks of the river steamers is a common\\nenough custom, but the real alligator hunt is to be had on\\nthe upper lakes where they swarm in almost countless\\nnumbers. Hunting parties for Lake Harney are made up\\nat Enterprise, on the Upper St. Johns. The expense is\\nnot much and the amusement prodigious.\\nSt. Augustine.\\nThe antiquarian and enthusiast in historical research\\nwill find abundant material of interest in the visible traces\\nof the Spanish occupation of two and three centuries ago.\\nRemains of ancient cities, forts, breastworks, churches,\\nand roads may be found, sometimes when least expected,\\nin the midst of dense forests which have grown up and\\ncovered the vestiges of the early civilization. St. Augustine", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "24 GUIDE TO FLORIDA,\\nthe oldest city on the North American continent, is unsur-\\npassed in interest to the antiquarian. The battle fields\\nof the later Indian wars also have a peculiar attractive-\\nness. Here the tourist may study the historic spots illus-\\ntrated by the valor and genius of Jackson, Taylor and\\nWorth. The State of Florida offers rare opportunities\\nfor study to the students in Geology and Botany. The\\nformer have an interesting and important subject for in-\\nvestigation in the extraordinary coral formation of the\\npeninsula; the latter in the wonderful and varied growth\\nof floral and other vegetation. Several professors of\\nNatural History from Northern institutions of learning\\nwere in Florida last year, collecting specimens of insects,\\nbirds, fishes and beasts. There are several excellent tax-\\nidermists in Savannah who make a business of preparing\\nspecimens for naturalists.\\nThere are those to whom field and water sports are un-\\ninteresting. They travel for a love of change merely, or\\nto behold the beautiful and novel in nature or to enjoy\\nidleness a\u00c2\u00a7 a relaxation from severe and unremitting\\njabor. The soft, balmy air, the clear, blue sky, the genial,\\nthough never enervating warmth, the tropical richness of\\nthe verdure, the bright-plumaged birds filling the forests\\nwith their music, the placid, transparent lakes and river\\nscenery of unsurpassed loveliness, fulfil all the conditions\\nrequired by this class of tourists. No American need\\nseek an Italy across the waters when one lies here, almost\\nwithin a day s travel.\\nk::^^", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 25\\nFor more than a century Florida has been a resort for\\ninvalids from all parts of the world and particularly for\\nthose afflicted with pulmonary complaints. The dryness,\\nevenness and salubrity of the climate are-a most delightful\\nand health-restoring change from the piercing winds and\\nfrigid temperature of the Northern, Middle and Western\\nStates in the winter. That many consumptives who have\\ncome to Florida die of the disease is true, but it is equally\\ncertain that they had postponed their visit until it was\\nbeyond the power of any climatic change to effect a cure.\\nBut there are thousands of persons threatened with the\\nconsumptive s death who have recovered their health in\\nFlorida, or at least have lengthened their iays not un-\\npleasantly.\\nIt is estimated that at least forty thousand people visited\\nFlorida last winter, .of whom about a fourth were invalids.\\nThe many beautiful villages and landings on the St.\\nJohns River, as far up as Enterprise, were crowded with\\nthese seekers for renewed life and health. St. Augustine\\nand the Indian river country, on the Atlantic coast, were\\nalso filled with visitors of the same character. Among\\nthese were not only people troubled with lung diseases,\\nbut those who were suffering from nervous complaints and\\nfrom physical and mental prostration. Many were over-\\nworked business men from the great cities of the North\\nand West, who sought this delicious and invigorating\\nmode of recuperation.\\nThe mildness of the atmosphere in winter permits much\\nexercise in the open air. It is not uncommon for the\\nnative ladies to walk late in the moonlight evenings\\ncovered, as to the head, only with a lace veil. Some\\nnights are damp and chilly, particularly in the Northern", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "2j6 GUIDE TO FLORIDA,\\nparts of the State, and a little fire is comfortable but\\nusually, throughout the winter, the inhabitants sit without\\na fire and with open doors and windows. These remarks\\nare not intended to convey the idea that caution as to\\nclothing can be neglected by the invalid. A writer on\\nthis point says As a rule, invalids should not expose\\nthemselves to the night air nor be tempted on warm, bright\\ndays to lay aside thick shoes and comfortable clothing.\\nThe invalid should always be dad in woolen clothing, and\\nthe robust do not require a linen suit except in the summer\\nmonths.\\nStatistics testify to the healthfulness of Florida. Not-\\nwithstanding the fact that so many thousands of consump-\\ntives resort to the State for relief, the proportion of deaths\\nfrom pulmonary complaints in it is less than in any other\\nState in the Union.\\nThe census of i860 showed that these deaths were as\\nfollows:\\nMassachusetts, one in 254\\nMaine, 289\\nVermont, _ _ 404\\nNew York, 473\\nPennsylvania, 580\\nOhio, 677\\nCalifornia, 727\\nVirginia, 757\\nIndiana, 792\\nIllinois, 878\\nFlorida, 1,447\\nThere is a wide-spread misapprehension respecting the\\nmalarial character of the interior of Florida. It is sup-\\nposed that in some parts the air is charged with the most\\npoisonous and noxious vapors .arising from the swamp\\nlands, and that fevers are common in consequence of it.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 27\\nIt is true that there is much swampy land in the State,\\nand that wherever there is a dense vegetable growth accom-\\npanied by decomposition, malarious diseases arise, but in\\nthis case, the magnificent breezes, which sweep across the\\ncountry, clear the atmosphere and purge it of its evil\\nhumors. All fevers in Florida assume a much milder\\ntype than in other sections where they are prevalent.\\nSurgeon-General Lawson, of the United States Army, in\\nhis report explicitly asserts this. He says that statistics\\nshow that the ratio of deaths to the number of cases of\\nremittent fever has been much less among the troops serv-\\ning there than in any other portion of the United States.\\nIn the Middle Division the proportion is i death to 36\\ncases of remittent fever in the Northern Division, i to\\n52; in the Southern Division, i to 54; in Texas, i in 78;\\nin California, i in 122; in New Mexico, i in 148; while\\nin Florida it is i in 287.\\nThe remedial character of the springs, which abound in\\nevery part of the State, must not be overlooked. Some\\nare known to be highly beneficial to rheumatic and dys-\\npeptic patients. A reference to the index of this work\\nwill give inquirers the location of several of the best\\nesteemed spas in the State.", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "28 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nThe Legislature of Florida has taken active measures\\nto induce immigrants, from the North and West and from\\nEurope, to settle in the State. A Department of Immigra-\\ntion has been established in connection with the State\\nGovernment the officer is styled Commissioner of Immi-\\ngration, and he is a member of the Governor s Cabinet.\\nThe Bureau furnishes, upon application, all the informa-\\ntion an intending settler may desire about the price,\\ncharacter and situation of lands and the means of getting\\nto them.\\nIt may be succinctly said that the inducements to immi-\\ngration to Florida consist in the cheapness of the lands,\\nease of tillage, wide scope of crops, heavy profits and\\nhealthfulness of climate. The lands of the State are\\nclassified as swamp lands, high and low hummock and\\npine. The first are the most durably rich lands in the\\nUnion. Ditching is indispensable in preparing them for\\nprofitable cultivation then they produce a succession of\\nluxuriant crops with the most wonderful vigor. They\\nare especially adapted for sugar, and have been known to\\nyield four hogsheads to the acre, which is more than twice\\nthe average of Louisiana productiveness. There is at least\\na million of acres of this land vacant in Florida, most of\\nwhich can be bought of the State for less than two dollars\\nper acre.\\nThe characteristic of the hammock, as distinguished\\nfrom the pine land, is, that it is covered with a growth of\\nunderbrush, while the latter is open. Whenever the land\\nis not so low as to be called a swamp and produces an\\nundergrowth of shrubbery, it is called hammock. These\\nlands stud the pine forests every few miles and vary in\\nextent from twenty acres to forty thousand acres. The", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORfDA. 29\\nlow hummocks require a little ditching, and are adapted\\nto the growth of the cane. The high hummocks are\\ncomposed of very rich soil and produce, with very little\\ncultivation, all the crops of the country. They require\\nno other preparation than clearing and ploughing, and\\nare the lands most sought after by new settlers the price\\nvaries from 25 cents to ^25.00 per acre, according to\\nlocation.\\nThe pine lands are generally cleared by girdling the\\ntrees and cutting away the underbrush. The following\\nyear nothing remains but the trunks and dry branches\\nwhich offer no further impediment to the rays of the sun.\\nThe fertility of what is denominated first-rate pine is\\nremarkable. Some districts have yielded during fourteen\\nyears of successive cultivation, without the aid of manure,\\n400 pounds of Sea Island Cotton to the acre. The poorer\\nclasses of pine lands are valuable for the raising of Sisal\\nhemp. They afford an excellent range for cattle, and are\\nworth still more for their timber and naval stores. Prices\\nof first-rate pine land varies from 25 cents to ;gio\\nper acre, according to location.\\nUnimproved lands on the St. Johns River can be had\\nat from ;^5 to $15; and improved lands in the same\\nlocality at from ;^2o to $^0. Plantations in other parts\\nof the State, partially cleared and having some improve-\\nments, such as buildings and fences, are worth from ^3 to\\n$10 per acre. Lands, having orange groves in bearing,\\nare from ^50 to $250 per acre. On account of the genial\\nclimate, the finished, compactly-built dwelling-houses of\\nthe more rigorous North are not required. Less expen-\\nsive buildings, the cost being not more than from ^200\\nto ^500, will answer every purpose of health and comfort.\\nThe extraordinary variety of crops suitable to the\\nsoil of Florida is alluded to on another page. Many of", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "30 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nthem, with much less of the cost and hard labor expended\\nin other farming sections of th^ Union, can be made\\nexceedingly profitable. For settlers of small means the\\nearly vegetable cultivation and the raising of fruit make\\nhandsome returns, and for large capitalists there are\\nfortunes in the production of cotton, sugar, fine Cuban\\ntobacco and naval stores. There are also similar induce-\\nments in stock raising, the cutting of timber and lumber,\\nsalt making and the fisheries. Enterprising men and\\nwomen, who know how to keep a hotel, can settle any-\\nwhere along the railroad lines or on the St. Johns, and\\ndepend on constant and remunerative business.\\nVisitors to Florida, for the first time, are usually appre-\\nhensive about snakes. Notwithstanding its tropical situ-\\nation there are few poisonous reptiles in Florida. In\\nsome localities the rattlesnake may be found, if sought for\\ndiligently, but generally the only snake visible is a species\\nof harmless, water snake. The alligators are not aggres-\\nsive towards strangers. They are rather disposed to run\\nthan fight when attacked. The mosquitoes flourish in the\\nsummer season, as they do everywhere else, but are less\\nvoracious than the Jersey breed. The other bugbear to\\nthe stranger in Florida the malarial fever, is spoken of\\nelsewhere. When it does occur, it is of the very mildest\\ntype, is not necessarily dangerous and yields easily to\\nsimple rOijedies.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 31\\nCharleston, the principal city of South Carolina, and the\\nlargest on the Atlantic coast of the United States south of\\nBaltimore, is situated on a tongue of land between tlie\\nrivers Ashley and Cooper. Its population in 1870 was\\n48,956, of which 26,173 were negroes and mulattoes. It\\nis a large cotton and rice marf, and is connected with the\\ninterior of the country by extensive lines of railway.\\nHistory Charleston was originally settled by the\\nEnglish in 1679. It was one of the most important and\\nopulent of the old colonial cities. In 1776 the British\\nfleet, under Sir Peter Parker, was beaten off by the fort on\\nSullivan s Island. The city was captured by the British in\\n1780. The great civil war of 1860-65 began here with\\nthe passage of the ordinance of secession in December,\\ni860.\\nHarbor The harbor is one of the largest and hand-\\nsomest on the coast of America. The ruins of Fort Sum-\\nter, situated at its entrance, constitutes the spot of most\\ninterest to strangers visiting Charleston, Castle Pinckney,\\na short distance from the city, and Fort Moultrie, on Sulli-\\nvan s Island, are also fortresses of historic renown, A\\npacket yacht conveys visitors to these points every after-\\nnoon, information of the hour of sailing, etc., may be\\nobtained at the hotels.\\nHotels The principal one is the Charleston Hotel,\\nan exceedingly handsome structure, and conveniently lo-\\ncated on Meeting at the intersection of Hayne and Pinck-\\nney streets. This house has long been noted as one of the\\nmost comfortable hostelries in the South, and its present\\nproprietor, Mr. E. H. Jackson, ably sustains its reputation.\\nThe Pavillion and Planters Hotels are cheaper houses and\\nare well patronized.", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "32 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nStreets Meeting street is the longest and most ele\\ngant avenue. King street is the fashionable shopping\\nthoroughfare. They run parallel the entire length of the\\ncity.\\nPublic Bllilciings\u00e2\u0080\u0094 St. Michael s Church, a ven-\\nerable edifice on the corner of Broad and Meeting streets,\\nis worth seeing. The Post Ofifice building at the lower\\nend of Broad street, is an ante-revolutionary structure. In\\nits cellars American prisoners were cruelly incarcerated\\nduring the war for independence. The new Custom House\\nis an imposing marble building. The Orphan House on\\nCalhoun street is one of the architectural ornaments of the\\ncity. On its grounds is a marble statue of William Pitt\\nerected by the citizens of Charleston previous to the Revo-\\nlution. The Charleston College, the. Medical College,\\nRoper s Hospital, the City Hall, the Citadel, and the Ar-\\nsenal, are large and handsome buildings. There is an in-\\nteresting museum connected with the Charleston College-\\nFlacciS ^vorth Visiting Pleasant trips may be\\nmade by the ferry-boats to Moultrieville and Mount Pleas-\\nant, the summer resorts of the Charlestonians. Magnolia\\nCemetery, a short distance beyond the city lines, is a beau-\\ntiful spot and has many fine monuments. The Battery, at\\nthe lower end of Meeting street, is a magnificent prome-\\nnade and affords an excellent view of the harbor. The\\nBurnt District, which extends from river to river across the\\nmiddle of the city, marks the track of the great fire of\\n1864, The Markets should be visited on a Saturday night,\\nand some of the large Rice Mills are interesting. A trip\\nto the wonderful Phosphate Grounds should not be omitted.\\nAt the Academy of Music, one of the most elegant theatres\\nin the Union, operatic and dramatic performances are given\\nduring the winter.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 33\\nThe commercial emporium of the Empire State of the\\nSouth is beautifully situated on the Savannah River, about\\n18 miles from its mouth. Savannah, next to New Orleans,\\nis the largest port of shipment of cotton in the Southern\\nStates, and one of the largest in the world. It is advan-\\ntageously placed for a great, thriving and increasing busi-\\nness, the Savannah river affords it water communication\\nwith the Northern part of the state for 380 miles. The\\nAtlantic and Gulf Railroad connects it with the rich and\\ngrowing sections of Southern, Middle and Upper Georgia,\\nand with Florida and the Gulf ports. The Georgia Central\\nroad running through Middle Georgia to Atlanta and the\\nSavannah and Charleston Railroad to Charleston, S. C, are\\nimportant links connecting the city v/ith the West and\\nNorth. There are four lines of first class steamers to\\nNew York, and weekly lines to Baltimore, Philadelphia\\nand Boston.\\nSavannah according to the census of 1870 had a popula-\\ntion of 28,235, ofwhich 13,068 were colored. Its receipts\\nof cotton in 1871-2 amounted to 457,159 bales. It also\\nexported 34,000,000 feet of lumber, and the total value\\nof its exports that year was ^50,000,000, which gave it the\\nrank of the third exporting port in the United States. The\\ncity is handsomely laid out with broad streets closely\\nshaded by water oaks, live oaks, magnolia, sycamore and\\npride of India trees. At nearly every other corner\\nthere is a public square, planted with these magnificent\\nshade trees. The number of these squares is 24. Broad\\nand Bay streets have grassy promenades in the middle,\\nwith carriage ways on either side.\\nThe principal Hotels are the Pulaski House and Screven\\nHouse, both on Johnson Square. The other hotels are\\nthe Pavilion and Marshall House.", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "34 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nThere are many fine buildings in Savannah, among which\\nmay be mentioned the City Exchange, New Market House,\\nSt. Andrews Hall, the New Custom House and the Hall of\\nthe Georgia Historical Society. The Independent Pres-\\nbyterian Church afid St. John s Episcopal Church have\\nconsiderable architectural merits.\\nStrangers will $nd many spots in and about Savannah\\nworth visiting. Fort Pulaski, a few miles down the river\\nwas the scene of a long siege during the late war. The\\noriginal cost of its construction was JS988,859.\\nForsyth Park though small in area (20 acres)\\nis quite a resort for the citizens and attractive to strangers,\\nas it is composed mostly of the natural growth of the\\nforests. The fountain in the centre, is considered a beau-\\ntiful model. It is after the style of the fountains in the\\nPlace de la Conco^ d in Paris. The walks are prettily laid\\nout, and covered with shell. It is the fashionable resort for\\nthe elite of the city.\\nHonaTenture Cemetery, one of the loveliest\\nspots in the world, has rural charms peculiar to itself.\\nThe long avenues, by the side of which the dead are sleep-\\ning are arched by the branches of great trees from which\\nthe gray moss sweeps in heavy festoons. There are some\\nnoticeable monuments in the cemetery.\\nThunderbolt, a picturesque bluff, 5 miles from the\\ncity, from which a good view of the country can be ob-\\ntained, is a favorite resort for pleasure parties.\\nTtomiments. A monument in honor of General\\nNathaniel Greene adorns Johnson Square. One to the\\nmemory of Count Pulaski is erected on the spot where he\\nfell in the attack on the city m 1779.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "IMPORTANT TO INVALIDS OTHERS.\\nfilBITI IIT1 FlOi lyillll TO THI iBll\\nVIA\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWeldon, Portsmouth and Baltimore,\\nPopularly known to the traveling public as the\\nPassengers leaving Jacksontelij: and Tat.t.ahassee by evening\\ntrains, Savannah by morning trains, connect with this popular line\\neither via Chaeleston or Augusta. Evening Trains -with PtrLL-\\nMAN SiiEEPiNQ Caes attached leave both the latter places and arrive\\nat Wilmington next morning from which point an entire train runs\\ninto POBTSMOXTTH WITHOXn; CHANGE OF CAES.\\nOne of the Magnificent Bat Line Steamees leaves Pobtsmotjth\\nDatlt, except Sundays, at 7:30 P. M,, on arrival of train, putting\\npassengers in Baltimore next morning in ample time for New York\\nTraius, refreshed and invigorated by luxurious fare and superior\\nstate room accommodations.\\n^^The Steamers of this Line are the most elegant south of New York, are\\nfiirnisbed with every comfort, are lighted with Gas, provided with Bath\\nRooms, and are supplied with all improvements calculated to insure the\\nCOMMOBX and MN^OYMENT of the TRA.TEI,I:M.\\nHaving access to the MARKETS of BALTIMORE and NORFOLK,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nunquestionably the best in the country,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 passengers will find the fare pro-\\nvided on these Steamers to he Mqnal to any Botel or Jiestaurant\\nin the country.\\nSupper, BreaJkfast and an Entire Night s Best\\nON BAY LINE STEAMERS.\\nBAGGAGE CHECKED THOUGH TO ALL POINTS NORTH.\\no\\nTICKETS TBJROJTGB: ST THIS IINE, good untU used, with pri-\\nvilege of stopping over, can be obtained at all offices of connecting lines, and\\nat Ticket Offices in Jacksonville, Savannah and Charleston jJso, on CHAR-\\nLESTON, SAVANNAH AND ST. JOHN S RIVER STEAMERS.\\nW. J. WALKER, EMiriET BROWIV,\\nGeneral Passenger Agent, General Ticket Agent.", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "36 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nThe Theatre is open during the winter season and\\npresents the best musical and dramatic artists of the coun-\\ntry in succession.\\nWhitefield s Orphan House. The remains of\\nthis institution, to the establishment of which the celebra-\\nted Whitefield, one of the pioneers of Methodism in Ameri-\\nca, devoted the best years of his life, may be seen about\\nnine miles from the city.\\nSavannah enjoys an enviable reputation for salubrity.\\nDuring the winter months the hotels and private boarding\\nhouses are filled with Northern visitors. The climate is\\nbetter suited to some invalids than points further South.\\nTourists bound to Florida by the Atlantic and Gulf Rail-\\nroad usually sojourn a few days in Savannah to enjoy its\\ngenial weather and visit its places of interest.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 37\\nPOINTS OF PEOMINENCE\\nIN\\nloijida mi in J^uf^etn (j)e0t:3ia,\\nON THE LINE OF THE\\nATLANTIC AND GULi? EAILROAD.\\nThis Railroad is the great connecting link between the\\nAtlantic coast railroads from the North (via Savannah)\\nand Southern Georgia and Florida, It affords a through\\nrailroad connection for passengers and freight between\\nthose flourishing sections and Baltimore, Philadelphia,\\nNew York and Boston.\\nThe main trunk extends from Savannah to Bainbridge,\\non the Flint River, nearly to the Alabama State line, a\\ndistance of 236 miles. There are two branch roads; one\\nbeginning at Lawton and extending to Live Oak, a distance\\nof forty-eight miles, and connecting with the Jacksonville,\\nPensacola and Mobile Railroad and the other from Tliom-\\nasville to Albany, Ga., a distance of fifty-eight miles.\\nThe Atlantic and Gulf Railroad also connects at Jesup\\nwith the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, and passengers\\nand freight are taken either for the coast or for all points\\nin Middle and Upper Georgia and Alabama.\\nThe following is the Time Table of the", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "ATIiANTIO GULF RAILROAD.\\nInyalids and cilier Trayelers to Florida can avoid a Sea-Yoyage Uy taKngtlis ronte.\\nioHN Screven, Pres., Savannah,Ga. j H. S. Haines, Gen. Supt, Savannah, Ga.\\n).MACDONALD,Treas. J. Evan?,G T A Payins t,\\nC. D. Owens, Gen. Agent, 229 Broadway, N Y.\\nAccom.\\n$6 50A.M,\\n7 40\\n8 20\\n903\\n9 42\\n10 20\\n1058\\n37\\n13 00 NN\\n1 2SP.M\\n2 10\\n305\\n4 S\\n5 20\\n60s\\n64s\\n7 30 P.M.\\n725A.M,\\n803\\n830\\n9 ^2\\n10 18\\n10 54\\n11 27A.M,\\n12 02N n.\\nJT2 SSN n,\\na 40 P.M.\\n3 35\\n418\\n450\\n542\\n6 13\\n650\\nn\\n55\\nExpress iMls\\n*4 30 P.M.\\n500\\n518\\n546\\n613\\n641\\n705\\nI750\\n9 00\\n9 35\\n10 10\\n10 48\\n11 30 P M.\\n12 00Nh t\\n12 20 A.M.\\n1 00 i,\\n152\\n2 12\\n2 56\\n3 28\\n3 55\\n418\\n4 44\\n5 25A.M.\\n5 2SA.M,\\n6 20\\n7 06\\nI735\\n833\\n904\\n9 40 A.M.\\n5 35A.M\\n6 52\\n7.6\\n7 43 I 528\\n8 15 A.M. 236\\nP. M.\\n*4 30\\nP. M.\\n1 7 50\\nA. M.\\nI OD\\ns 24\\n303\\n331\\n3 55\\nA. M.\\n10 12\\nA. M.\\n105s\\nA. M.\\nOctober 12, 1S73.\\nMis Express. Accom\\nIve.. .Sav^nnnh 1. ,.ar.\\nMiller s\\nWav s\\nFleming s\\nMcintosh.\\nWalthourville\\nJohnson\\nDoctortown\\nJesup^\\nScreven\\nPatterson....\\n.Blackshear\\nTebeauville\\nGlenmore\\nArgyle\\nHomersville.\\nZ\\\\\\\\ -ia\\nStocton\\nNaylor\\nValaosta\\nOusley s\\n....-Quitman\\nDixie s\\nBoston\\nar.. Thomasvilie^ ..Iv\\n1 ^36\\n226\\n220\\nJ2T2\\nI 204\\nJ197\\n190\\n,183\\n179\\nIV... Thomasville^....ar\\nOkloknee\\nt) Pelham\\ng Camilla g;\\nS Baconton R\\nHardaway\\nAlbany\\nIv\\nThom-sville ^..ar.^\\nCairo\\n....Whigham\\n..Climjx\\nar.....Bainbridge8..iv^\\nleave] [arrive\\nSavannah 1\\nleave] [arrive\\nJesup^\\nleave] [arrive\\nI.awt- n3\\nStaten ville\\nJasper\\nSuwanee\\nLlveOak^\\narrivk] [leave\\nJacksonville\\narrive] [leave\\nTallahassee\\narrive] [leave\\n8 20 A\\n.M.\\nS 45 P-?l.\\n750\\n4 30\\n7 32\\n402\\n703\\n323\\n637\\n246\\n6 10\\n2 12\\n5 4\u00c2\u00ab\\n1 37\\n5 17\\nI 00 P.M.\\n5 00\\nH 12 ION H\\n405\\nJ\\nII I3AM.\\n328\\n10 26\\n2 52\\n9 45\\nJ 2 10\\n835\\nI 27 A\\n.M.\\n7 43\\n12 5SN\\nHT\\n702\\n12 30N\\nHT\\n6 20\\nII 35 P.M.\\n\u00c2\u00a75 40A.M.\\n1^35\\n7 45 P-M.\\n1107\\n7 06\\n10 50\\n6 42\\n10 04\\n538\\n9 31\\n4 53\\n9\u00c2\u00b0S\\n4.6\\n7 05 P.M.\\n7 05 P.M,\\n6 23\\n5 34\\n504\\n4 26\\n356\\n3 20 P.M.\\n7 05 P.M.\\n5 53\\n5 3\u00c2\u00b0\\n502\\n4 32 P.M.\\nA. M\\n8 20\\nA. M.\\n5 00\\nNIGHT.\\n12 00\\n103s\\n9 54\\n9 27\\n9\u00c2\u00b05\\np. M.\\n2 40\\np. M.\\n2 30\\nP. M,\\n2 10 P.M,\\n12 3on oi*\\n45 A.M.\\n10 53\\n10 18\\n938\\n855\\nt8 15 J\\nC ca", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA, 39\\nCONNECTIONS.\\n2 With Savannah and Charleston, and Central (.Ga.) Railways, and New York,\\nPhiladelphia, Baltimore and Boston Steamships. With Macon and\\nBrunswick Railroad. With Florida Division. With Jacksonville,Pensacola\\nand Mobile Railroad. With Atlantic, Gulf and West India Transit Com-\\npany s Railroad daily, except Sunday. 6 With Albany Division. With\\nthrough trains ou South-western Railroad. 8 with steamers for Columbus,\\nFort Gaines, Eufaula, and Apalachicola.\\nMacon Passenger Train.\\nLeaves Savannah daily, 4 30 p. m., arriving at Jesup daily, 8 15 p. m. arrives\\nat Macon daily, s SS a-m- leaves Macon daily, 7 45 p. m. leaves Jesup daily,\\n5 a. m., arrives at Savannah daily, 8 20 a. m. Connects at Macon with trains\\non Macon and Western, and South-western R. Rs.\\nNOTES.\\nSleeping car runs through to Jacksonville. Sleeping car runs through tM\\nand from Macon. Passengers for Brunswick take this train, arriving at\\nBrunswick, daily, to 30 p. m. Leave Brunswick 2 30 a. m., arrive at Savannah\\n8 20 a. m. Passengers from Macon by M. B. 8 00 a. m. train, connect at\\nJesup with train for Florida. Passengers from Florida connect at Jesup with\\ntrain arriving in Macon 4 30 p m.\\nThe following are the stations on the Atlantic and Gulf\\nRailroad after leaving Savannah\\nMillers lo miles from Savannah, 226 miles from\\nBainbridge. Wood station.\\nThe railroad crosses the Little Ogeecnee River, just east\\nof this station.\\nWays 1534^ miles from Savannah, 220^ miles\\nfrom Bainbridge. Wood station. There are Presbyterian\\nand Baptist Churches near here. The County seat of\\nBryan County is near here. Within one mile east of\\nthis station the road crosses the Great Ogeechee River.\\nSome of the largest rice plantations in Georgia are\\nsituated on its banks. A short distance below the\\nbridge the blockade runner, Rattlesnake, previously\\nthe Nashville, was sunk by the guns of the Federal\\nfleet, then lying below Genesis Point. On this point was\\nthe Confederate battery. Fort McAllister, whicli was cap-\\n39", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "40 GUIDE TO FLORIDA\\ntured after a sharp fight, by Sherman s Army, on its\\nmarch to the sea.\\nFleming 24 miles from Savannah and 212 miles\\nfrom Bainbridge. Telegraph office. About fifteen miles\\nfrom here, on the shore, is the harbor of Sunbury,\\none of the best on the Georgia coast, and one of the ear-\\nliest settlements in the State. Visitors may see there the\\nold Sunbury Fort and have a fine view of St. Catherine s\\nSound. At Fleming are Methodist and Baptist Churches.\\njflclntosh 32 miles from Savannah and 204\\nmiles from Bainbridge. This station is two and one-\\nhalf miles from the village of Flemington, Liberty County\\nfive miles from Hinesville, the County seat and ten miles\\nfrom Riceboro, the head of water navigation on the North\\nNewport River.\\nWalthourTilie 39 miles from Savannah, 197\\nmiles from Bainbridge. The village of Walthourville is\\nthree miles from the station, and in ante bellum days\\nwas the summer residence of the wealthy planters of Lib-\\nerty County. It was the birth-place of a number of the\\nmost eminent men of the State, and was noted for the\\nintelligence and refinement of its society. Present popu-\\nlation, 300. The place is a resort for invalids. There are\\ngood boarding houses kept by Messrs. Brown and Miller.\\nRates from $1.50 to ^2.00 per day for transient visitors.\\nThe neighborhood abounds with^ deer -and partridge.\\nThere are two churches in Walthourville, one Presbyterian\\nand one Baptist.\\nJ^ohnstOEl 46 miles from Savannah, 190 miles\\nfrom Bainbridge. Population, 150. The village con-\\ntains a boarding-house, kept by Mrs. Johnston, two saw\\nmills and a shingle mill near by. Plenty of game will\\nbe found in the vicinity.\\nUpon leaving this station, the road descends into the", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 4\\nvalley of the Altamaha River. This river is one of the\\nlargest in the State and is formed by the junction of the\\nOconee and Ocmulgee Rivers the former, navigable for\\nsteamboats to Dublin^ and the latter to Macon. Darien,\\nwhere a large trade is carried on in lumber and timber,\\nlies near the mouth of the Altamaha. The Atlantic and\\nGulf Railroad crosses this stream upon a substantial lattice\\nbridge of four spans, formed upon brick pieces of suffi-\\ncient height for steamers to pass below. The swamp\\nabounds in cypress and oak. The cypress is manufactured\\ninto shingles, and shipped to Macon, Savannah and North-\\nern ports, and quantities of oak staves are exported to\\nFrance and Spain.\\nOCtortoiim 53 miles from Savannah, 183\\nmiles from Bainbridge. This station is near the site\\nof an old Indian town, which was the abode of a famous\\nmedicine man, whence the name of the station.\\nJesup ^57 miles from Savannah, 179 miles from\\nBainbridge. Telegraph office. Junction of the Macon\\nand Brunswick Railroad. Passengers take cars here for\\nMacon, Atlanta, and all points in Middle and Northern\\nGeorgia, Alabama and Tennessee, Connection is also\\nmade here with the growing and prosperous city of Bruns-\\nwick, forty miles distant on the Atlantic coast. The pop-\\nulation of Jesup is about 100. Hotels, kept by Mrs. Clary\\nand Mr. Williams, will accommodate about sixty guests.\\nRates $3.00 per day.\\nScreven 68 miles from Savannah, 168 miles\\nfrom Bainbridge. Wood station.\\nUpon the line of the road for the thirty miles west of\\nthis station, in the finest lumber region of the State, are\\nsituated eight or ten large circular saw mills engaged in\\ncutting lumber for shipment, via Savannah, to the Northern\\nStates, Europe, the West Indies and South America. The", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "42 GUIDE TO FLORIDA\\nlumber interest is annually increasing in importance, and\\nadds largely to the revenues of this road. The shipments\\nof lumber over the road have increased from 8,000,000\\nfeet in 1866, to 32,000,000 feet in 1871. Short lateral\\nbranches are being constructed into the virgin forests on\\neither side of the line, and it is probable that the annual\\nshipments will continue to increase for many years to\\ncome.\\nPatterson 77 miles from Savannah, 159 miles\\nfrom Bainbridge. There are three churches in the\\nvicinity.\\nHSlacUsliear 86 miles from Savannah, 150 miles\\nfrom Bainbridge. Population, 800. County seat of\\nPierce County. There are in the village and vicinity four\\nsaw mills and a grist mill. The Knoles House accommo-\\ndates travelers at ^2.50 per day or ^7.00 per week. The\\ncountry hereabouts is heavily timbered and large quan-\\ntities of round and square timber are cut and shipped. The\\nSouth East Georgian is published here, and there is a Meth\\nodist Church in the village.\\nTen miles west of Blackshear the Brunswick and Albany\\nRailroad crosses the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.\\nTebeaUFilEe 97 miles from Savannah, 139\\nmiles from Bainbridge. Telegraph office. Population\\nabout 100. Situated near the head of the great Okafono-\\nkee Swamp, which abounds with game and fish, and is a\\nfamous resort of ihe sportsman. The Railroad House at\\nthis station, kept by J. W. Remshurt, will accommodate\\nabout thirty guests at ^2.00 per day. There are two saw\\nmills in the neighborhood, cutting about 15,000 feet of\\nlumber daily.\\nGlenmoice 108 miles from Savannah, 128 miles\\nfrom Bainbridge. Wood station.\\nArgyle 115 miles from Savannah, 121 miles from\\nBainbridge. Wood station.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 43\\nBomersville 122 miles from Savannah, 114 miles\\nfrom Bainbridge. Population, 200. County seat of\\nClinch County. The Okafonokee Swamp is near by.\\nCowart s Hotel and Hodge s boarding house afford\\ngood accommodations to visitors and sportsmen. Sugar\\ncane is raised to some extent on the neighboring plan-\\ntations.\\nI^aiVton 131 miles from Savannah, 105 miles\\nfrom Bainbridge. Telegraph office. Junction with\\nthe Florida branch of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad,\\n(which see, at the end of this article.) The Railroad\\nHouse accommodates travelers at ^2.00 per day. In\\nthe village the Primitive Baptists have a small meeting-\\nhouse. Tiie climate here is agreeable and the water excel-\\nlent. The country is heavily covered with yellow pine.\\nStockton 139 miles from Savannah, 105 miles from\\nBainbridge. Wood station.\\nIVayJor 144 miles from Savannah, 97 miles from\\nBainbridge. Population, about 75. There are two saw\\nmills and a wool-carding establishment near here.\\n\\\\^aEdoista. 157 miles from Savannah, 79 miles from\\nBainbridge. Telegraph office. Population, 2000. County\\nseat of Lowndes County. The largest town on the rail-\\nroad between Savannah and Thomasville. It ships about\\n5000 bales of cotton per season, and contains several mills,\\nfive white and two negro Churches, and two good hotels,\\nStuart s Railroad Hotel and Tranquil Hall, where accom-\\nmodations may be had at ^5.00 per week for permanent\\nguests. The South Georgia Times is published here. In\\nthe neighborhood are many natural curiosities; one\\nof the small rivers enters a cave and disappears.\\nOcean Pond and Long Pond, from three to five miles in\\nextent, afford the best fresh-water fishing in Georgia.\\nFrom this station westward to Thomasville, the road", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "44 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\npasses thioagh a region which, perhaps, offers more\\ninducements to emigration than any other part of Southern\\nGeorgia or Florida. It is a rolling country, well watered,\\nand thickly wooded with yellow pine and other timber.\\nThere are many thrifty farmers engaged in planting cotton,\\ncorn and sugar cane, and in raising stock for the Savannah\\nmarket. In summer the southerly winds are cooled in\\npassing over the Gulf of Mexico, and the nights are\\nalways pleasant. Cases of malarial disease are rare, and\\nmosquitoes are almost unknown. In short, there is no\\nother part of the Southern country possessing the same\\nadvantages of climate, soil and productions, of health,\\nproximity to schools, churches and centres of trade, where\\nland can be purchased at as small a price as in this vicin-\\nity. The Atlantic and Gulf Railroad was only extended\\nto Thomasville at the beginning of the late war, and as it\\nis not on any of the great Southern Through Lines, it has\\nin a great measure escaped the attention of persons going\\nSouth in pursuit of health or seeking a home.\\nOusley 1 66 miles from Savannah, 70 miles from\\nBainbridge. Population, 150. Travelers are accommo-\\ndated by J. A. and W. H. Ousley. In the vicinity are\\nseveral pretty lakes.\\nTwo miles west of this station the road crosses the\\nWithlacoochee River, an affluent of the Suwanee. Upon\\nits banks and near the road are two springs (one of them\\na sulphur spring), which enjoy quite a local reputation.\\n^aiitniaM 174 miles from Savannah, 62 miles from\\nBainbridge. Telegraph office. One of the most flourishing\\ntowns in Southern Georgia. Population, 1500. County\\nseat of the fertile county of Brooks, which contains ten\\nwater and six steam mills. In Quitman are two carriage\\nmanufactories, a cotton and wool factory with a capital of\\n575,0005 five churches, belonging to the Methodists,", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 45\\nBaptists and Presbyterians thirty business houses, mostly\\nbuilt of brick, and three educational institutions the\\nLovick Pierce College with 60 students, Quitman Academy\\nwith 100 students, and the Howard Institute (colored)\\nwith 60 students. This young town was planned and the\\nstreets blazed out of the pine forests in i860. Last year\\n6000 bales of cotton were shipped from its depot. The\\nQuitman Banner is published here. In the county is a\\npartially explored cave, called the Devil s Hopper, which\\nis a great natural curiosity. The sulphur springs are four\\nmiles distant from the town. Travelers are accommodated\\nat the City Hotel by J. G. Jenkins, and Mcintosh House,\\nby Mrs. B. Mcintosh. Rates, ^2.00 per day, |i 0.00 per\\nweek, ;^2o.oo per month. Students, 10. 00 per month,\\nDixie iSi miles from Savannah, 55 miles from\\nBainbridge. Bryan s Hotel has good accommodations at\\n1^1.50 per day. Near by is Dry Lake, a large and beauti-\\nful sheet of water, and a sink hole into which three rivers\\nempty and show no outlet again.\\nBoston 188 miles from Savannah, 48 miles from\\nBainbridge. Population, 400. Ships 1800 bales of cotton.\\nSeveral steam saw mills here, and Methodist, Baptist and\\nPresbyterian churches. Boston is the proposed terminus\\nof two new railroads one to St. Marys, Georgia, and the\\nother to Greenfield, Georgia, and is growing rapidly.\\nTtiomasville 200 miles from Savannah, 36 miles\\nfrom Bainbridge. Telegraph office. Junction with Albany\\nbranch of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, (which see, at\\nthe end of this article.) Population, 4000. County seat\\nof Thomas County. The town is situated on the highest\\nland between Savannah and the Flint River, and is 97 feet\\nhigher than Albany. It is the centre of a thriving trade\\nand bids fair to become the most important town in\\nSouthern Georgia. Its location is dry and healthy, and", "height": "2501", "width": "1482", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "46 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nit is tnerefore a favorite resort for Northern invalids. The\\nstreets are broad and beautifully shaded with evergreens.\\nThe town has Episcopal, Methodist, Baptist, Presbyterian\\nand Roman Catholic churches five saw mills, a foundry\\nand a tannery, and supports a newspaper, the Southern\\nEnterprise. The South Georgia Agricultural and Mechan-\\nical Association holds its annual fairs here, generally con-\\ntinuing five days. The country around is cultivated with\\ncotton and sugar, and is well settled. Travelers and invalids\\nwill find accommodations at the Gulf Railroad House, kept\\nby G. W. Parnell, and Young s Hotel, by John McKinnon;\\ncharges ^3.00 per day or 12.00 per week. At the board-\\ning houses rates are from ^20.00 to ^25.00 per month. A\\nSwiss Colony is successfully engaged in the grape culture\\nnear Thomasville. Thomasville shipped about 12,000\\nbales of cotton last year.\\nCairo 214 miles from Savannah, 22 miles from Bain-\\nbridge. Population 6(i. Boarding houses kept by W. T.\\nRigsby, William Powell and Wily Pearce. Rates ^i.oo\\nper day.\\n^Whigliani 221 miles from Savannah, 15 miles from\\nBainbridge. A considerable trade done here with the\\nsurrounding country.\\nClimax 228 miles from Savannah, 8 miles from\\nBainbridge. Wood station. At this station the road\\ndescends westward into the valley of the Flint River.\\nBainbridg e 236 miles from Savannah. The\\nWestern terminus of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.\\nTelegraph office, and the head of navigation on the\\nFlint River, which is navigable all the year. Steamboats\\nmake semi-weekly trips to Columbus, Georgia, on the\\nChattahoochee and Apalachicola, Florida, on the Gulf of\\nMexico. The population of Bainbridge is 2000. It con-\\ntains a cotton factory, two steam saw mills, and three", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 47\\nchurches. Two newspapers, the Southern Sun and the\\nArgus are printed here. The neighboring lakes abound\\nwith fresh-water fish. The Sharon House, kept by John\\nSharon, is a first-class country house. Board ;^3.oo per\\nday, $15.00 per week.\\nBainbridge is the county seat of Decatur County. The\\nlocal shipments of cotton are 11,000 bales. The steamers\\nlanding here bring about 16,000 bales per annum for ship-\\nment by rail to Savannah. The town is rapidly improving.\\nIt is also the terminus of the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and\\nColumbus Railroad, (narrow gauge) now under construc-\\ntion.\\nFrom Lawton, Georgia, to Live Oak, Florida.\\nlia.f\u00c2\u00a5toil 131 miles from Savannah, 132 miles from\\nJacksonville. The junction of the main trunk of the\\nAtlantic and Gulf Railroad and the Florida Branch.\\nForrest 143 miles from Savannah, 121 miles from\\nJacksonville. Wood station.\\nStatenTille ^^151 miles from Savannah, in miles\\nfrom Jacksonville. Population, about 50. The place con-\\ntains Baptist and Methodist churches.\\nJasper 163 miles from Savannah, 99 miles from\\nJacksonville. Population, 150. County seat of Jasper\\nCounty. Invalids take conveyances here for the Upper\\nWhite Sulphur Springs, 18 miles distant. The country here-\\nabout is pleasant and healthy. Visitors to Jasper can be\\naccommodated at the Stewart House, kept by Judge H. J.\\nStewart, and the Hately House, by Mrs. Z. Hately.\\nCharges, $15.00 to $20.00 per month, $2.00 per day.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "48 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\n^mvanee 171 miles from Savannah, 90 miles\\nfrom Jacksonville. Wood station. About one mile from\\nhis statioa is a most remarkable Sulphur spring, upon the\\nrocky shore of the widely-sung Suwanee Ribber, and\\nembowered in the live-oak and magnolia trees which shade\\nits placid surface. The spring is about fifteen feet deep\\nand as many fact in diameter its crystal-pure waters, as\\nthey pour into the river, are so clearly separate from the\\ndark current flowing down from the Okafonokee Swamp,\\nthat the line of demarkation may be observed for some\\ndistance below the spring. This spring is well known for\\nits efficiency in cases of rheumatism and dyspepsia, as is\\nalso the Upper White Sulphur, some miles farther up the\\nriver.\\nlilTC Oak 179 miles from Savannah, 83 miles from\\nJacksonville. Telegraph office. Junction with the Jack-\\nsonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad.\\nFrom Thomasville to Albany, Georgia.\\nXllomaSTllle 200 miles from Savannah, 60 miles\\nfrom Albany. Junction of the main trunk and the Albany\\nDivisionof the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad.\\nOkloknee 211 miles from Savannah, 49 miles from\\nAlbany.\\nPellia.m 224 miles from Savannah. 36 miles from\\nAlbany.\\nCamilla. 232 miles from Savannah, 28 miles from\\nAlbany. Telegraph office. A new town, laid out in 1857,\\nand growing rapidly. Population, 500. Ships 5000 bales", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 49\\nof cotton. It is situated in the midst of a flourishing cot-\\nton region. The town contains several steam saw mills,\\ntwo corn mills, Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian\\nchurches, two good hotels and a number of boarding\\nhouses. Prices at the former, per day $2.00 to ;^2.5o;\\nper week, ^5.00 to ^6.00. County seat of Mitchell County.\\nFrom this station to Albany the road runs near the east\\nbank of the Flint PJver, and through an almost continuous\\nbelt of extensive and fertile cotton plantations.\\nSacoilton 242 miles from Savannah, 18 miles from\\nAlbany.\\nIlai*dawa.y 252 miles from Savannah, 8 miles from\\nAlbany.\\nAlbany Telegraph Office, 258 miles from Savannah\\nand on the Flint River. The terminus of three railroads,\\nthe Albany Branch of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, the\\nBrunswick and Albany Railroad to the Atlantic coast, and\\nthe South-western Railroad to Macon. Population, 3500.\\nCounty seat of Dougherty County. This is also a new\\nplace and has risen to the dignity of an incorporated city.\\nIt contains a number of mills and foundries, seven churches,\\na newspaper, (yhtJVews) and two hotels the Town House,\\nkept by Collier Co., and the Albany House by M.\\nBurnes. Rates, I3.00 per day and ^30.00 per month.\\nUpland cotton is the staple product of the surrounding\\ncountry. Blue Spring, three miles from Albany, is a bold\\nstream, gushing from the earth, and abounding with fisli.\\nThe many ponds in the county are supposed to have an\\nunderground connection with this spring.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "50 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nFrom Quincy, via Live Oak, to Jacksonville, by the\\nJacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad.\\nThe Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad con-\\nnects the Apalachicola River in Western Florida with the\\nAtlantic Ocean at Jacksonville, and therefore traverses the\\nentire Northern section of the State, east of the Apalachi-\\ncola. It also connects at Live Oak with the Atlantic and\\nGulf Railroad, and all stations in Georgia at Tallahassee\\nwith St. Marks and the Gulf of Mexico, and at Baldwin\\nwith Fernandina in the North and Cedar Keys in the\\nSouth. At present the road is in running condition from\\nQuincy east to Jacksonville, a distance of 189 miles. The\\nroad will be completed this winter to Chattahoochee, and\\nthe work of making the connection with Pensacola and\\nMobile will be pushed forward rapidly.\\nThe following are the stations on this road, going east\\nQuincy 189 miles from Jacksonville. Telegraph\\noffice. Population, 800. County seat of Gadsden\\nCounty.. The Willard House, kept by Mrs. Willard, is\\nrecommended. Board, ^3.00 pei day. There is a board-\\ning-house kept by Mrs. Innes. Quincy has three churches\\nMethodist, Episcopal and Presbyterian. A weekly news-\\npaper, the Quincy Journal, is published here. The\\nvillage is situated in Gadsden County, which before\\nthe war cultivated fine Cuba tobacco on a large and remu-\\nnerative scale. The early vegetable business is flourishing.\\nThe neighborhood of Mount Pleasant, 12 miles from\\nQuincy, is engaged in the cultivation of the Scuppernong\\ngrape, and produces a wine equal to the best of the Call-", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 5\\nfornia and Ohio vintages. A number of Swedish immi-\\ngrants have settled in Gadsden County, and have done so\\nwell that a large party has been iuduced to join them.\\nQuincy is 22 miles from Bainbridge.. Georgia, and with it\\nhas daily stage communication.\\nMidway 12 miles from Quincy. 177 miles from\\nJacksonville.\\nTallat aissee 2 4 miles from Quincy, 165 miles from\\nJacksonville. Telegraph office. The capital of the State\\nof Florida, and county seat of Leon County. Population,\\n2500. There are two newspapers published in Tallahassee,\\nthe Floridian, conservative, and the Sentinel, republican.\\nThe principal hotel is the City Hotel, by Mrs. Mary\\nArcher It has accommodation for 150 guests. Board,\\n^4.00 per. day. There are no manufactories. Leon\\nCounty, in which Tallahassee is situated, is wholly a farm-\\ning county, and contains some of the best rolling lands in\\nthe State. About 12,000 bales of cotton are raised an-\\nnually. The climate is delightful, the summer s heat being\\ntempered by the Gulf breezes. In the neighborhood of the\\ncity are Lakes Bradford, Jackson and Lafayette. Tlae\\nname of the second was given by General McCall, who\\nwas on Jackson s staff. Lake Lafayette received its name\\nfrom the grant of land made by Congress to the Marquis,\\nwithin the area of which the lake is situated. Tallahassee\\nis connected with St. Marks on the Gulf of Mexico, by a\\nbranch of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile Railroad.\\nTrains run through in an hour and a half. (See notice of\\nSt. Marks, at the end of this article.) The society of this\\ntown is distinguished for its intelligence and refinement.\\nCtiaires 35 miles from Quincy, 153 miles from\\nJacksonville.\\nlj9oyds 42 miles from Quincy, 147 miles from Jack-\\nsonville. Population, 200. The village contains a Bap-", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "52 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\ntist and two Methodist Churches. The railroad here runs\\nthrough a flat, pine-wood country.\\ninonticello Junction\u00e2\u0080\u0094 51 miles from Quincy,\\n138 miles from Jacksonville. Connection is had here with\\nthe town of Monticello, county seat of Jefferson County,\\nwhich is the terminus of a branch road, four and a quarter\\nmiles distant. The population of Monticello is about 2000.\\nTelegraph office. The Monticello Advertiser is published\\nhere, and there are Episcopalian, Methodist, Baptist and\\nPresbyterian churches. The principal hotel is the Monti-\\ncello, with good accommodations, and kept by Mrs. M.\\nA. Madden. Board and lodging may be had for ^25.00\\nper month. Lake Miccosukie is in this vicinity. Its\\nbanks are famous in the ancient history of Florida, as the\\ncamping ground of De Soto and in modern history, as\\nthe field of a sanguinary battle between General Jacksou\\nand the Miccosukie tribe of Indians.\\nMonticello is twenty miles distant from Dixie, on the\\nAtlantic and Gulf Railroad,\\nAucilla 58 miles from Quincy and 131 miles from\\nJacksonville.\\nQoodman 65 miles from Quincy and 124 miles\\nfrom Jacksonville. These two stations are shipping points\\nfor a fine planting country.\\n]?Iadi$on 79 miles from Quincy and no miles from\\nJacksonville. Telegraph office. Population between 700\\nand 800. County seat of Madison County. The village\\ncontains Methodist, Baptist and Presbyterian churches.\\nThe lands hereabouts are good, and there is considerable\\nearly garden truck raised for the Northern markets. The\\nPhoenix Mills in the village are of large capacity. Trav-\\nelers can be accommodated at the house of Mr. W. E.\\nHowells, at ^2.50 per day. In the County of Madison the\\nbeautiful Lakes Rachel and Mary Frances, and Cherry\\nLake are situated. They abound with fish.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 53\\nEllaTille 94 miles from Quincy and 95 miles from\\nJacksonville. An extensive lumbering place situated on\\nthe Suwanee River, which empties into the Gulf of Mex-\\nico. Population, about 500. There are large saw mills at\\nthis place, whose cutting capacity is fifty thousand feet\\ndaily, also planing and grist mills. A boarding house in\\nthe village is kept by Mrs. Drew. The church is used by\\nall denominations.\\nLive Oak 107 miles from Quincy and 82 miles\\nfrom Jacksonville. The junction with the Atlantic and\\nGulf Railroad to Savannah, and all railroad points North.\\nTelegraph office. Countyseatof Suwanee County. Popula-\\ntion, 800. The village contains a saw mill, a planing mill,\\na manufactory and a church, which is used alternately by\\nthe Episcopalians, Baptists, Methodists and Presbyterians.\\nThe Live Oak Herald \\\\s published here. Conner s Hotel\\naffords good accommodations. Fare, ;^3.oo per diem.\\nThere is a private boarding house kept by Mrs. McLarran.\\nNear the village are many waterfalls, some of them very\\npretty. The site of Live Oak was once an Indian camping\\nground. The Live Oak Times is published here.\\nliVelUborn 119 miles from Quincy and 71 miles\\nfrom Jacksonville. Passengers going to White Sulphur\\nSprings stop here. Population, 350. Wellborn is situated\\non the highest point above the level of the Gulf, on this\\nrailroad. It is in a healthy country and a resort for inva-\\nlids. The celebrated White Sulphur Springs on the\\nSuwanee River, are eight miles distant. They are much\\nused by sufferers from dyspepsia and rheumatism. Lake\\nWellborn and several other inland sheets of water, are in\\nthis neighborhood, and are well stocked with fish. The\\nvillage contains two churches, one used by the Baptists,\\nand the other by the Methodists and Presbyterians. Trav-\\nelers and invalids are accommodated at the houses of H.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "-54- GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nD. Rigsbee, S. L. Williams and others. Rites, ^1.50\\ndaily, ^7.00 to $8.00 weekly, ^20.00 to i jo.oo monthly.\\nJLake City 130 miles from Quincy and 59 miles\\nfrom Jacksonville. Telegraph office. A city of 2000\\ninhabitants. An United States signal service station and\\nthe seat of justice of Columbia County. The place con-\\ntains cotton, saw and grist mills and seven churches be-\\nlonging to the Roman Catholic, Presbyterian, Methodist,\\nEpiscopalian and Baptist denominations. The Lake City\\nPress, edited by Captain E. W. Davis, is published here.\\nLakes Isabella, De Soto and Hamburg are within the city\\nlimits, and Indian Lake within a quarter of a mile. There\\nis a chalybeate (iron, sulphur and magnesia) spring, about\\nhalf a mile from the city, and one of the best sulphur\\nsprings in the South within 12 miles. The lakes and\\nstreams are stocked with trout, bream, perch, (mawmouth,\\nspeckled, sand and mud) gar and other varieties of fish\\nand the surrounding country with deer, bears, wild turkeys,\\npartridges, snipe, (English and gray) and wild ducks.\\nEvery planter has from one to two dozen orange trees.\\nThe dim remains may be seen, about Lr.lf a mile from Lake\\nCity, of trenches built by De Soto in his conflicts with the\\nIndians over three hundred years ago. The city has three\\nhotels, the Cathey House by J. W. Cathey, Hancock\\nHouse by Mrs. Ashurst, and Thrasher House by T. B.\\nThrasher, each containing from 25 to 30 rooms.\\nOlltistee 142 miles from Quincy and 47 miles from\\nJacksonville. ,\u00e2\u0080\u009e01ustee is the site of the most important\\nbattle fought in Florida during the late civil war. Major\\nGeneral Trueman Seymour, with a large body of United\\nStates troops, in February, i 864, marched from Jackson-\\nville, westward, and at this place encountered the Confed-\\nerate army under Brigadier-General Joseph Finegan. A\\ndesperate battle ensued, which lasted all day, and was", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO KLORIDA. 55\\ncharacterized by great bravery on both sides. General\\nSeymour was beaten, and retreated from the field, aban-\\ndoning his dead and wounded to the enemy. His loss\\nwas 1 200, including Colonel Fribley, of the negro troops,\\nkilled. Finegans s loss was 250. The Confederate cavalry\\npursued General Seymour as far as Baldwin, picking up\\nmany prisoners.\\nSanderson 152 miles from Quincy and 37 miles\\nfrom Jacksonville. Telegraph Office. County seat of\\nBaker County.\\nBaldwin 170 miles from Quincy and 19 miles\\nfrom Jacksonville. Telegraph Office. Junction with the\\nFlorida Railroad, connecting with Fernandina and the\\nAtlantic Ocean on the north, and Cedar Keys and the\\nGulf of Mexico, on the south. (See article on the Florida\\nRailroad.) The telegraph line to Cuba branches off at\\nthis station.\\nH^llite B[oil\u00c2\u00a7e 178 miles from Quincy and 11\\nmiles from Jacksonville.\\nJacksonTille 189 miles from Quincy. Termi-\\nnus of the J. P. M. Railroad. Telegraph Office. Boats\\nfor all points on the St. Johns River, and connecting with\\nthe St. Augustine Railroad at Tocoi, are taken here. (See\\narticle on the St. Johns River.)\\nFrom Tallahassee to St. Marks.\\nA branch railroad of 2 1 miles in length, connects Tal-\\nlahassee with the port of St. Marks, on the Gulf of\\nMexico.\\nSt. Marks 21 miles from Tallahassee. Telegraph\\nOffice. A small settlement. Connection is made here\\nwith steamers for New Orleans, Pensacola, Apalachicola,\\nCedar Keys, Key West and Havana.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "56 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nFrom Fernandina, via Baldwin, to Cedar Keys,\\nBY THE Florida Railroad.\\nThe Florida Railroad stretches across the State, from\\nthe city of Fernandina in the extreme north-east, to Cedar\\nKeys on the Gulf of Mexico, 154 miles south-west thus\\nconnecting the waters of the Gulf and the Atlantic with\\nan iron link. The road is well built and comfortable, and\\npasses through some of the most picturesque parts of\\nPlorida. Through trains leaving daily from either termi-\\nnus make the passage in twelve hours.\\nThe following are the stations on this route\\nFernandina Telegraph Office. An old but\\nthriving city situated on the inner or western shore of\\nAmelia Island, and at the mouth of the Amelia River,\\nwhich divides it from the main land, and forms, with Cum-\\nberland Sound, one of the best and safest seaports on the\\nAtlantic coast, south of the Virginia capes. The city was\\nbuilt by the Spaniards. For many years it languished,\\nbut the compl-etion of the railroad connection with the\\nGulf of Mexico gave it a new start, and it is now one of\\nthe most promising cities in the South. The population is\\nabout 2500. The harbor of Fernandina is so capacious,\\nthat, during the war of 181 2, when the town was Spanish\\nand neutral, more than three hundred square-rigged\\nvessels were congregated together in its waters at one\\ntime. The harbor is land-locked, aud indeed can hold\\nimmense fleets in safety from the raging gales of the Atlan-\\ntic outside. Vessels drawing 19 or 20 feet can cross the\\nbar at high tide, while vessels of the deepest draught can\\nunload at the wharves.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 57\\nThe lumber interest in this city is very considerable and\\nis increasing. There are four large saw mills in operation,\\nand others are contemplated. English capital has lately\\nstarted a large cotton-ginning establishment, and a cotton-\\nseed oil manufactory. In the vicinity are numerous sugar,\\ncotton and orange plantations, mostly of a moderate size.\\nIt is to the market gardener that the neighborhood of Fer-\\nnandina offers the greatest inducements. Vegetables can\\nbe raised, particularly in the winter season, so much earlier\\nthan at the North, that they are a very profitable article of\\nshipment to New York.\\nFernandina has seven churches, one Episcopal, one\\nPresbyterian, two Methodist, two Baptist and one Roman\\nCatholic. It is the seat of the Episcopal Bishoprick of\\nFlorida. A large and flourishing academy for young\\nladies is under the charge of the Bishop. There are two\\nnewspapers published in the city, the Island City and the\\nSunny South. The hotels are the Norwood House, J. R.\\nPearson, proprietor the Virginia House, J. M. Payne,\\nproprietor and the Florida House, Thomas Leddy, pro-\\nprietor. The rates per day are from ^2.00 to $3.50, but\\nat these and numerous boarding houses, liberal terms can\\nbe made by the week or month. The healthfulness of\\nFernandina cannot be surpassed in the south. The cool\\nsea breeze in summer makes it a delightful residence, while\\nthe general mildness of the climate in winter renders it\\nequally attractive.\\nDirect communication is had with all the principal\\nrailroad points in Florida and seaports to the northward\\nand a new railroad is contemplated from Fernandina to\\nJacksonville, which will lessen the traveling distance be-\\ntween that place and Savannah. Besides its pleasant\\nclimate, Fernandina has, in its neighborhood, some places\\nof historical interest and na ural beauty, which make it", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "v58 GUIDE TO FLORIDA\\nattractive to visitors. The magnificent sea beach affords\\nat low water a drive of eighteen miles on a road as smooth\\nand hard as the bed of a billiard table. An interesting\\nexcursion is to Dungeness, miles distant the seat of\\nthe illustrious General Nathaniel Greene of Revolutionary\\nmemory. The estate was presented to the General by the\\npeople of Georgia, in recognition of his services as com-\\nmander of the Southern provincial army during the most\\ncritical period of the struggle. It consists of about\\n10,000 acres, and has been iaid out with great taste and\\ncare. The gardens are superb. The visitor can see here\\nhow the olive flourishes in the South, making beautiful\\ngroves traversed by avenues also avenues of live oaks,\\nthose giants of the forest, hanging with the sombre though\\ngraceful Spanish moss, which droops in long festoons from\\nevery limb. On the beach, about half a mile from the\\nDungeness mansion, may be seen the grave of General\\nHenryLee, of Virginia, the famous Light Horse Harry\\nof the Revolution. He died at this place in March, 1818,\\naged 6^ years. A headstone, erected by his son, General\\nRobert E. Lee, the Commander-in-chief of the Confed-\\nerate armies, marks the spot where the hero is buried.\\nOai t s Road 12 miles from Fernandina, 142\\nmiles from Cedar Keys. Wood station.\\nCalfialian 27 miles from Fernandina, 127 from\\nCedar Keys; small station population, 20 to 25. There\\nis a missionary Baptist church here, and another church\\n(colored) being erected. The station is situated on an\\nextensive marl bed, and is surrounded by a valuable forest\\nof yellow pine, cypress, live oak, white oak, c. Travel-\\ners who have a curiosity to see live rattlesnakes can gratify\\nit in the woods hereabouts.\\nBaldwin Telegraph Office. 47 miles from Fer-\\nnandina, 107 miles from Cedar Keys- The junction with", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nsg\\nthe Jacksonville, Pensacola and Florida Railroad. The\\nCity of Jacksonville is only 20 miles distant. Population\\nof this settlement, about 150. It contains two hotels, the\\nBaldwin House and the Florida House, which have\\naccommodations for 100 guests. Charges, $4.00 per\\ndiem.\\nTrail Rldg^e 2 miles from Fernandina, 92 miles\\nfrom Cedar Keys.\\nStarke 73 miles from Fernandina, Si miles from\\nCedar Keys. Population, 250. There is a church in the\\nvillage, and three within the distance of a mile, all Meth-\\nodist. No hotel, but a good boarding house, kept by Mrs.\\nT. B. Hoyt, who charges ^1.50 perday,or^25 per month.\\nThere are a number of lakes from two and a-half to ten\\nmiles distant, some of them large with very clear water.\\nGame is scarce, but fresh water fish abound in the lakes.\\nThis part of Florida is principally inhabited by small far-\\nmers, who cultivate the sea is land cotton, corn, sugar cane,\\nsweet oranges, peaches and a variety of garden pro-\\nductions.\\nWaldo 84 miles from Fernandina and 70 miles from\\nCedar Keys. Junction of the railroad now being con-\\nstructed to Tampa Bay. Population, about 125. Has\\ntwo Baptist and one Methodist churches. No hotel, but\\nboard can be obtained in private families, at from ;^i5,oo\\nto ;^2o.oo per month. The village has two mills for gin-\\nning cotton. Santa Fe Lake is about two miles distant.\\nIt is about nine miles long and four, wide, and affords\\nexcellent facilities for boating and fishing. About six\\nmiles from Waldo there is a natnral sink in the land cover-\\ning about two acres. A stream runs into it continually,\\nand yet there is no visible outlet. The Santa Fe River\\ndisappears several miles from the village, and flows under\\nground, thus forming a natural bridge. The lakes and", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "p6o GUiDE TO FLORIDA.\\ncreeks here about are filled with trout and perch, and the\\nwoods with deer, ducks, quails, etc. This neighborhood\\nis remarkable for its healthfulriess. The only local dis-\\nease is the malarial fever, which prevails during the later\\nmonths of summer, but which is in a mild form and easily-\\ncontrolled by remedies. The climate is peculiarly adapted\\nto sufferers from diseases of the lungs, the air being dry\\nand pleasant.\\nOainesYille 96 miles from Fernandina, 55 miles\\nfrom Cedar Keys. Telegraph Office. The largest and\\nmost important station on the Florida Railroad, and a\\nfavorite resort for invalids. County seat of Alachua\\nCounty. Population, 1500. The town contains Presbyte-\\nrian, Baptist, Methodist and Episcopalian churches, three\\nflourishing academies, two newspapers, the Independent,\\nrepublican, and the New Era, conservative, and three\\nhotels with good accommodations. The latter are Oak\\nHall, Colonel Lemuel Wilson, proprietor Exchange\\nHotel, P. Shemwell, proprietor; Beville House, Mrs. S.\\nP. Beville; board, ^2.00 to ^3.00 per day, or ^25.00 to\\n^30.00 per month. There are two livery stables, affording\\nample means for conveyance into the interior and to the\\nnatural curiosities with which the vicinity abounds. The\\nAlachua, a body of water, termed in Florida, a sink,\\nis the recipient of several streams, with a subterranean\\npassage to the ocean. It is filled with alligators and all\\nkinds of fish, and the surrounding scenery is very charm-\\ning and romantic. In Alachua County there is a large\\nand beautiful prairie, twenty miles long and five miles\\nwide. The county is the largest in the State, with a pop-\\nulation of 20,000. There are twenty-eight public schools.\\nA tri-weekly mail line starts from Gainesville for Tampa\\non the Gulf. Passengers are taken. There is plenty of\\ngame in the woods. Oranges, lemons, limes, grapes.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA 6i\\nbananas and peaches thrive here. Peach trees sometimes\\nbear at the age of fifteen months, a thing unknown in any-\\nother section of the Union. Garden truck is raised in\\nabundance for the Northern markets. Immigrants are\\nwelcomed. Land from 75 cents to ;^5o.oo per acre. New-\\nmansville and Micanopy are important towns in the comity,\\nwhich have stage connections with Gainesville.\\nArcher 113 miles from Fernandina, and 41 miles\\nfrom Cedar Keys. The Suwanee River is distant about\\n25 miles. Population, 200. No hotels, but travelers are\\naccommodated at the houses of Joseph S. McDonell and\\nMrs. Young. There are three Methodist and one Baptist\\nchurches. Hereabouts are magnificent pine forests and\\nbeautiful prairie views.\\nBronson 122 miles from Fernandina, and 32 miles\\nfrom Cedar Keys. A new place, settled mostly since\\nthe war. Population about 100. It is the county seat of\\nLevy County. There is one church (Methodist), and a\\nhotel of limited capacity, the Jackson House, but the fare\\nis excellent. Board can be obtained in private families at\\nabout ^i.oo per day. Twelve miles from the village is an\\ninexhaustible bed of iron ore, which has not yet been\\nworked. The railroad here passes through some of the\\nfinest land in the State, the Gulf hummock, adapted for\\nthe culture of sugar cane, cotton, corn, c. In the\\nneighboring creeks, besides many varieties of fish, there\\nare an abundance of soft-shell turtles, which, when prop-\\nerly prepared, make a very savory and delicious dish.\\nOtter Creek 135 miles from Fernandina, 19 miles\\nfrom Cedar Keys.\\nPaliaaetto 144 miles from Fernandina, 10 miles\\nfrom Cedar Keys.\\nCedar Keys 154 miles from Fernandina, 126 miles\\nfrom Jacksonville. The Gulf of Mexico terminus of the", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "62 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nFlorida Railroad. Regular packet steamers connect here\\nwith New Orleans, Key West and Havana. Population,\\n400. There are two hotels, the Gulf House, fare ;g2.5o,\\nand the Exchange, ^3.00 per day. The Suwanee River en-\\nters the Gulf eighteen miks west of Cedar Keys, and the\\nWithlacooche, eighteen miles south. The former is\\nnavigable to Ellaville. Cedar Keys is situated on a fine,\\nlarge bay, which affords excellent facilities for bathing,\\nboating and fishing.\\nThe New Orleans, Florida and Havana Steamship Com-\\npany dispatch one of the steamers of their line every\\nSaturday morning for Havana, New Orleans and Key\\nWest. Passengers desiring to go by these steamers should\\nbe in Cedar Keys on Friday night.\\nThis grand water-course of Eastern Florida, has it^\\nsource in the springs and swamps of the southern extremity\\nof the peninsula, and flowing northward, for a distance of\\nfour hundred miles, turns abruptly eastward in the neigh^\\nborhood of Jacksonville, and empties into the Atlantic\\nOcean. Its whole course lies through an extremely level\\nregion. For one hundred and fifty miles it has an average\\nwidth of more than one and a-half miles, and is said to\\ncarry a volume of water much larger than does the Rio\\nGrande, which is one thousand miles long. In some\\nplaces it expands to a width of six miles, nor docs it conv\\ntract at any point to less than a r^.ile, below Lake George.\\nMany of the tributaries of the St. Johns are navigably\\nto quite a distance by steamboats, and it is believed tha)", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 63\\nthis river and its navigable branches give one thousana miles\\nof water transportation. The river scenery is not only-\\nbeautiful, but to the stranger s eye, has the additional\\ncharm of novelty. The luxuriance of the tropical vegeta-\\ntion, the pretty villages nestling amid magnificent shade\\ntrees or orange groves along the banks, and the broad,\\nplacid waters through which the steamer ploughs its way,\\ncombine to make a picture of surpassing loveliness.\\nThe banks of the St. Johns are the principal attraction\\nto the invalids coming to Florida in search of a balmy\\nclimate, change of scene and pleasant surroundings.\\nThousands of visitors from the North are scattered among\\nits towns and villages every winter. The means of access\\nare easy and comfortable. Large steamers ascend as far\\nas Palatka, from which smaller steamers continue the tour-\\nist s journey on the St. Johns to Lake Monroe, and on the\\nOclawaha River to Silver Springs, and the interior lake\\ncountry. The regular packets from Jacksonville are the\\nFlorence, which runs to Palatka, 75 miles and back, every\\nday; and the steamers Darlington and Hattie, a semi-\\nweekly line to Enterprise, a distance of 205 miles.\\nThese steamers are commanded by polite and gentlemanly\\nofficers, and are very well furnished. The local fares on\\nBrock s line of steamboats, from Jacksonville to Green\\nCove Springs and intermediate landings, are ;^i.oo from\\nJacksonville to landings between Green Cove Springs and\\nPalatka, ^2.00. Meals, i 00 each extra. From Jackson-\\nville to Mellonville and Enterprise, including meals and\\nstaterooms, jgg.oo; and from Palatka to Mellonville and\\nEnterprise, including meals and staterooms, ^6.00. The\\nthrough trip from Jacksonville to Enterprise, including\\ntime of stoppages, consumes ^6 hours.\\nThe following are brief notices of the principal points\\non the river", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "64 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nJacksonTille County seat of Duval County.\\nTelegraph Ofitice. The commercial emporium of East\\nFlorida, and the largest city on the Atlantic coast of the\\nUnited States south of Savannah; is a place of about\\n13,000 inhabitants. It is situated on the western bank of\\nthe St. Johns river, 25 miles from its mouth. The city is\\nregularly incorporated, having a Mayor and Board of\\nAldermen, and is the seat of the United States District\\nCourt, and of the Federal Customs and Internal Revenue\\nOffices. There are twelve churches within its limits:\\nThree being Baptist, three Methodist, two Episcopalian,\\ntv/o Presbyterian, one Roman Catholic and one Second\\nAdventist. Banking facilities are offered at the Banking\\nHouses of D. G. Ambler and Denny Brown, both on\\nBay street. There is a Freedman s Saving Bank situated\\non the corner of Ocean and Bay streets. The leading\\nhotels are the St. James, a large and commodious house,\\nkept by Wilder Co.; the Metropolitan, by Bettelini\\nTogni the Price House, by A. P. Holbrook; the St. Johns,\\nby Mrs. Hudnall the Rochester, by J. B. Jamison the\\nMagnolia, the Ocean, the Stickney and the New England.\\nThere are besides nearly one hundred boarding houses^\\nmany of them first-class and equal to the best hotels for\\ncomfort and desirableness of location. Price of board\\nranges from ^10.00 to ;^25.oo per week at the hotels.\\nPleasant furnished rooms in private houses can be had for\\nfrom ^4.00 to ;^6.oo per week, which includes lights, fuel\\nand attendance and board, without rooms, at the hotels,\\nis $11.00 per week. It can be obtained for less at the\\nboarding houses. Unfurnished cottages can be had from\\n$20.00 to $30.00 per month; washing is extra, and costs\\nabout $1.00 per dozen.\\nJacksonville takes its name from General Andrew Jack-\\nson. It is regularly laid out, the streets crossing each", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 65\\nother at right angles and being adorned with handsome\\nshade trees. Bay street is the principal business thorough-\\nfare. On the northwestern side of the city is a picturesque\\nbluff, covered with fine residences, called La Villa. A\\ncharming view up the river can be obtained here. The\\nsuburban villages of Riverside, Reed s Landing, South\\nShore and Alexandria are connected with the city by the\\nferryboat Fanny Fern, which makes several trips daily.\\nThe commerce of Jacksonville is large, the wharves being\\nwell crowded with shipping, and arrivals and departures\\nfor all parts of the world being constant. The largest\\nbusiness interest is the cutting and shipping of lumber.\\nThere are a number of large saw mills in the city, and the\\nshipments last year aggregated as much as 50,000,000 feet.\\nThe cotton, sugar, fruit, fish and early vegetable crops of\\n.Florida also pass through Jacksonville for distribution at\\nthe North and at foreign ports. By the Jacksonville, Pen-\\nsacola and Mobile Railroad, rapid communication by land\\nis had with Savannah and Fernandina in the North, Tal-\\nlahassee and St. Marks in the West, and Cedar Keys on\\nthe Gulf of Mexico in the South. There is telegraphic\\njCommunication with all parts of the United States. Two\\nnewspapers are printed in Jacksonville, the Courier, con-\\nservative, and the Union, republican, both tri-weeklies.\\nMulberry Grave The first landing-place after\\nleaving Jacksonville, 1 2 miles distant, on the west bank.\\nA beautiful grove.\\nMandarin 15 miles from Jacksonville, on the\\neast bank, a village of 200 inhabitants, one of the old-\\nest settlements on the river; has several stores and two or\\nthree fine orange groves. This place is of interest to\\nNorthern visitors as being the winter residence of Mrs.\\nHarriet Beecher Stowe. Her house is near the bank, a\\nfew rods to the left of the shore end of the pier. It is a", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "66 GUIDE TO FLORIDA\\nmoderate-sized cottage of dark brown color. The most\\nconspicuous feature of her place are some towering water-\\noaks. She owns about 40 acres of land, three or four of\\nwhich are planted with orange trees.\\nSUbemia 25 miles from Jacksonville, on the west\\nbank. This is quite a resort for invalids. Mrs. Fleming\\nhas a large, commodious house, which will accommodate\\nabout forty boarders and is one of the first to fill up.\\nMagnolia 28 miles from Jacksonville, on the west\\nbank; a beautiful place, with a fine hotel kept by Messrs.\\nRogers and Adams. With the contiguous cottages about 80\\nguests can be accommodated. Near by is Magnolia Point,\\none of the highest points of land extending into the river\\nbetween Jacksonville and Palatka. A short distance north\\nof Magnolia Point a navigable stream, called Black Creek,\\nempties into the St. Johns. Small steamers from Jackson-\\nville make weekly trips up Black Creek as far as Middle-\\nburg. Large quantities of lumber are floated down this\\nstream to a market. The banks abound with alligators.\\nOreen Cove Springs 30 miles from Jackson-\\nville, on the west bank one of the most popular reports on\\nthe river. The Union House, kept by Remington and\\nReed, will accommodate comfortably about fifty guests.\\nThere are other hotels and several good boarding houses.\\nRates at the hotels, ^3.00 per day; at the boarding houses,\\nper week, ^10 to ^$15. One of the attractions at this place\\nis the Spring, which is held in high esteem for its health-\\ngiving qualities. The water has a temperature of about 75\\ndegrees is as clear as crystal and has a slight sulphurous\\ntaste, not unpleasant. Facilities are afforded to both sexes\\nfor bathing at the Spring. Green Cove promises to be-\\ncome in time a flourishing and populous village.\\nHogarttl s Wharl^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 35 miles from Jacksonville,\\non the east bank a post-office and wood landing.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 67\\nPicolata 45 miles from Jacksonville, on the east\\nbank. This small settlement is the site of an ancient\\nSpanish city, of which scarce one vestige remains. Two\\ncenturies ago, it was the main depot of supply for the\\nSpanish plantations of the up country, and through it, were\\nshipped to St. Augustine and abroad, such products as the\\nsettlers raised. The Franciscan monks erected a splendid\\nchurch here and some religious houses for their order.\\nOpposite Picolata, on the western bank, are the remains of\\na great earthwork fort belonging to the Spanish era.\\nTocoi 53 miles from Jacksonville, on the feast bank.\\nThe depot of the St. Augustine Railroad. The distance\\nto St. Augustine is 15 miles, and trains connecting with\\nthe river boats run through in 4 hours.\\nFederal Point 6^ miles from Jacksonville, on the\\neast bank. Wood station.\\nOrang e Mills 64 miles from Jacksonville, on the\\neast bank. There are several fine orange groves at this\\nlar,ding.\\nJDancey s Place\u00e2\u0080\u0094es miles from Jacksonville. A\\npost-office and orange grove. The plantation of Colonel\\nDancey is here.\\nPalatka 75 miles from Jacksonville, on the west\\nbank. The largest town on the St. Johns River after\\nleaving Jacksonville. Population, about 1000. It occupies\\nan elevated site above -he river, and extends about half\\na mile along the banks. As Palatka has a thriving back\\ncountry to support it, there are many stores and a flourish-\\ning business doing. A telegraph line is in operation\\nat a convenient point, connecting this thriving town\\nwith all points of the United States. A newspaper is pub-\\nlished here. There are two good hotels, the Putnam\\nHouse, kept by Geo. McGinley, late of the Screven\\nHouse, Savannah and the St. Johns, by P. H. Peter-", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0082\u00ac8 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nman. This place is steamboat headquarters for the Upper\\nSt. Johns and its tributaries. The steamers Florence,\\nDarlington and Hattie, en route to Enterprise, lie over\\none night at Palatka, to discharge and receive freight\\ngiving passengers an opportunity to spend a few hours on\\nshore if they desire. Steamers run from Palatka to Dunn s\\nLake, and also up the Ocklawaha River to Silver Spring,\\nOcala, and the head of navigation, a distance of i8o\\nmiles. Opposite to Palatka, on the eastern bank, is a\\nhandsome orange grove of 500 trees. It is kept in excel-\\nlent order and is worth visiting. The St. Johns becomes\\nnarrower at this point.\\nWclaka 95 miles from Jacksonville and 20 miles\\nfrom Palatka, on the east bank, is the site first, of an old\\nIndian village, and afterwards, of a flourishing Spanish\\nsettlement. It is near the entrance to Dunn s Lake, and\\nalso to the Ocklawaha River. The scenery along the\\nOcklawaha is very wild and picturesque, and is much ad-\\nmired by tourists. There are some magnificent planta-\\ntions on the banks, aiKi large quantities of cotton and\\nsugar are raised. Silver Spring is a basin of beautiful,\\nclear and deep water. This the site of a Seminole village\\nof 600 inhabitants.\\nliSlke G-eorg^e After leaving Welaka, the river\\nwidens into Little Lake George, four miles wide and seven\\nmiles long, and then into Big Lake George, one of the\\nloveliest sheets of water in the world; twelve miles wide\\nand eighteen miles long. It is dotted with pretty islands,\\none of them called Rembert, being seventeen hundred\\nacres in extent, and having one of the largest orange\\ngroves on the river. The banks of Lake George are musi-\\ncal with the song and brilliant with the plumage of the\\nSouthern birds. Flocks of herons, the -white curlew, the\\ncrane, the pelican, the loon and the paroquet may be\\nseen. The latter can be bought of the negroes.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 69^\\nVolusia\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5^ miles from Lake George, and 65 miles\\nfrom Palatka, on the east bank; a wood station, AA ith a\\nconsiderable settlement back from the river. This is the\\nsite of another ancient Spanish city, wiped, out by the\\nwars of the past, so that not a trace remains. It was the\\nprincipal point on the line of travel between St. Augus-\\ntine and the Musquito Inlet country. The modern village\\nwas settled in i8i8. During the Seminole war a fort was\\nbuilt here, and from this post General Eustis, in command\\nof the left wing of the army, composed mostly of regu-\\nlars and drafted three months men from South Carolina\\nand Georgia, set out to cross the country to the Witbla-\\ncoochee, to join General Scott. After a brief and fruit-\\nless campaign of three months, General Scott and his\\narmy recrossed the river at Volusia on their way to St. Au-\\ngustine.\\nMeans can be had at Volusia to get to New Smyrna and\\nIndian River on the coast; a famous country for the\\nhunter. New Smyrna is celebrated as the spot settled by\\nDr. Turnbull and his colony of 1500 Minorcans, in- the\\nyear 1767. TurnbuU s wife being a native of Smyrna, in\\nAsia, the settlement was named New Smyrna. The\\ncrop cultivated by Turnbull was indigo, of which he\\nraised thousands of dollars worth annually. These col-\\nonists not being dealt with according to contract, all\\nabandoned the settlement and located in and near St.\\nAugustine, where their descendants now reside. The only\\npermanent monument left by Turnbull is a large canal,\\ndraining the swamp that bears his name into the Hillsboro\\nRiver at New Smyrna.\\nOrangre CJrOYC\u00e2\u0080\u0094 10 miles from Lake George.\\nWood landing.\\nHawkinsTille\u00e2\u0080\u0094 20 miles from Lake George. Wood\\nlanding.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "^o GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nBine iSprin^ 33 miles from Lake George. Wood\\nlanding. Near here is one of the largest springs in the\\nState. The water boils up from a bottom eighty feet wide,\\nand forms a considerable river. The spring is several hun-\\ndred yards from the St. Johns, but the stream flowing from\\nthe spring is large enough, at its confluence at the river,\\nfor the steamers to float in it. It is a most interesting\\nsight to look over the side of the steamer, into the crystal-\\nclear water, and observe the every-day life of the shoals of\\nfish below, as they flit here and there, seeking a living,\\nmaking love to and war on each other, quite unconscious of\\nthe lookers-on in the element over their heads. It is a\\ncapital place for a naturalist to observe the ordinary habits\\nof aquatic animals.\\nJflellonville 125 miles from Palatka, and 200\\nmiles from Jacksonville on the west bank of Lake Mon-\\nroe. One of the most important landings on the Upper\\nSt. Johns. It was formerly the site of Fort Mellon, built\\nduring the Indian War. There are two hotels here either\\none of them furnishing fair accommodation, at moderate\\nfigures. There is a flourishing back country, and\\nseveral stores do a good business. The orange groves\\nin the neighborhood are handsome and productive. Lake\\nMonroe, upon which Mellonville is situated, is twelve\\nmiles long and five miles wide. It is crowded with fish of\\nmany varieties, and the opportunities for rare sport to the\\nangler, are unsurpassed. Wild fowls are likewise abun-\\ndant.\\nlillterprise Almost directly opposite Mellonville,\\non the east bank of Lake Monroe; is 130 miles from\\nPalatka and 205 miles from Jacksonville, and the head of\\nregular steamboat navigation. Here is one of the best\\nand most popular hotels on the river, the Brock House a\\nlarge comfortable building, capable of entertaining one", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 7\\nhundred guests. It is usually crowded during the winter.\\nAttached to it are a billiard saloon and a ten-pin alley.\\nThe rates for board rank from ;^i5.oo to ;^2o.oo per week,\\naccording to rooms. The Green Spring, at Old Enter-\\nprise, about a mile from the Brock House, is worth a\\nvisit, as well as the orange groves in the vicinity. The\\nSpring is of a delicate green color, and at times transparent.\\nIt is nearly eighty feet in diameter, and fully one hundred\\nfeet deep. The waters are sulphurous, and few fish live in\\nthem. Enterprise is the great headquarters for the sports-\\nman. Fishing and hunting expeditions are fitted out here\\nfor the upper lakes and the Indian River country. Horses\\nand bpats are kept on hire, and during the winter a small\\nsteamboat makes frequent excursions to Lakes Jessup and\\nHarney, taking parties who wish to enjoy the ravishing\\nscenery and indulge in that novel and exciting sport,\\nalligator shooting. The run up to Lake Harney and back,\\ncan be made in a day. Lake Jessup, which is in the\\nneighborhood of Lake Harney, is seventeen miles long by\\nfive miles wide, and is so shallow, that it cannot be en-\\ntered by a boat drawing over three feet of water. The\\nSt, John s River has its rise in the Everglades, fully 120\\nmiles further south than Enterprise, but tourists do not\\nusually ascend beyond Lake Harney, twelve miles from\\nEnterprise. The climate in this locality is perceptibly\\nmilder than below. The winter resembles very much the\\nmonths of May and June at the North, though without\\ntheir occasional scorching heat.\\nThe Southern Inland Navigation and Improvement\\nCompany have contracted to deepen the waters of the\\nSt. Johns, from Enterprise, as far as Lake Washington.\\nThis much-needed improvement will give inland commu-\\nnication with Indian River, Sand Point, Mosquito Inlet,\\nIndian River Inlet, Susannah, Jupiter Inlet, and the capes,", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "72 GUIDE TO FLORIDA..\\nand opens up the entire south-east coast of Florida to the\\nextremity of the Peninsula. To the tourist in search of\\nadventure, this section of the State presents a magnificent\\nfield. The Indian River is alive with every variety of fish\\nthat inhabit the Southern waters, and the woods abound\\nin game.\\nSince the completion of the railroad from St. Augustine\\nto Tocoi, on the St. Johns River, access to this picturesque\\nand beautiful old Spanish town has been easy, pleasant and\\nrapid. The regular packet steamers up the St. Johns\\nRiver leave Jacksonville at eight and nine o clock a. m.,\\ndaily, Sundays excepted and connect at Tocoi (5 7 miles\\nfrom Jacksonville) with the St. Augustine Railroad. The\\ntrain leaves Tocoi at two o clock p. m., and is due at St.\\nAugustine at The distance between Tocoi and St.\\nAugustine is fifteen miles. Through fare from Jack-\\nsonville, by the steamers Florence, Darlington and Hattie,\\n;^3.oo. Meals and staterooms, ;^i.oo extra.\\nSt. Augustine, the most ancient town in North America,\\nis situated on a peninsula nearly surrounded by the St.\\nSebastian River and St. Augustine Bay. The population\\nis 3500 souls, mostly of Spanish and Minorcan descent.\\nAcross the Bay is Anastasia Island. The town was\\nfounded by Menendez, the Spanish Governor of Florida,\\nin 1565, which was forty-three years before the settlement\\nof Jamestown, in Virginia, and fifty-five years before the\\nlanding of the Pilgrims on Plymouth Rock. St. Augus-\\ntine has had an eventful history. First, it was laid waste\\nby the French, under De Gourgues in 1580, it was\\nattacked and plundered by the English, under Sir Francis", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 73\\nDrake. In 161 1, it was pillaged by the Indians. In 1665^\\nthe English buccaneer, Davis, sacked it, after the inhabi-\\ntants had taken refuge in the fort. In 1702, Governor\\nMoore, of the English Colony of South Carolina, invaded\\nFlorida, and attacked the city, but was baffled by the fort.\\nIn 1 71 2, the inhabitants suffered from a famine in conse\\nquence of the non-arrival of supply ships from Spain. In\\n1725, the Georgians, under Colonel Palmer, were beaten\\noff. In 1740, General Oglethorpe, the Governor of Geor-\\ngia, laid regular siege to the place, planting his batteries\\non Anastasia Island and bombarding the fort for thirty-eight\\ndays. He failed to force the Spaniards to surrender, and\\nretired. The city passed into British possession, by\\ntreaty, in 1763, and held a British garrison during our\\nRevolutionary war. In 1784, it was re-ceded to Spain,\\nand in 181 9 transferred to the United States. During the\\nlate war between the States, it changed masters three\\ntimes.\\nThe following is a brief summary of the principal\\nplaces of business and of interest to visitors in St.\\nAugustine.\\nHotels. The St. Augustine Hotel, which has just\\nbeen finished, is a large, commodious building, and has\\nfirst rate accommodations (see advertisement, page 22),\\nFlorida House, Magnolia House (see advertisement), and\\na number of good boarding houses. St. Augustine has\\ntelegraphic communication with Jacksonville.\\nOld TOWBI Wall\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Built by the Spaniards two\\ncenturies ago. It protected the town on its northern side,\\nand extended across the peninsula from shore to shore.\\nThe gateway of the old wall still stands, and is a pictur-", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "74\\nGUIDE TO Florida.\\nesque and imposing ruin, with ornamented lofty towers\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0and loop-holed sentry-boxes. The ditch is clearly\\nmarked.\\nFort inarion The old Spanish fort once called\\nSan Juan. It was begun in 1620, and built principally by\\nthe forced labor of Indian slaves who toiled on it for one\\nhundred years. It stands on the sea front, at the upper\\nOuperBroa.\\nInterior of Fort Marion.\\nend of the town, and its material is almost wholly the\\nCoquina rock, quarried on Anastasia Island. Its castel-\\nlated battlements, says Rev. Mr. Trumbull, its formid-\\nable bastions with their frowning guns, its lofty and im-\\nposing sally-port surmounted by the Spanish arms, its port-\\ncullis, moat, drawbridge, its circular and ornate sentry-\\nboxes, its commanding outlook tower, and its stained and\\nmoss-grown massive walls impress the external observer", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORID^.. 75\\nas a relic of the distant past while a ramble through its\\nheavy casemates, its cfrumbling Roman chapel, with elab-\\norate portico and inner altar and holy-water niches, its\\ndark passages, gloomy vaults, and more recently-discovered\\ndungeons, bring you ready credence of its many tradi-\\ntions of inquisitorial tortures. A visit to the fort by\\nmoonlight also is recommended.\\nCathedral. The old Catholic cathedral, with its\\nquaint Moorish belfry, its chime of four bells in separate\\nniches, and its clock, together forming a cross, and its\\nantique interior, is one of the most interesting objects in\\nSt. Augustine. The oldest of the bells is marked 1682.\\nOther Churches. The Episcopalians have a neat\\nchapel on the Plaza. There are also Methodist, Baptist\\nand Presbyterian churches in the city.\\nThe Plaza. ^A fine public square in the centre of\\nthe city is called the Plaza de la Constitution. On it\\nstand the ancient markets, and it is faced by the cathe-\\ndral, the old palace, the convent, and the Episcopal church.\\nIn the middle is a monument erected in honor of the\\nSpanish Liberal Constitution. Effigies of John Hancock\\nand Samuel Adams were burned on this spot by the British\\ntroops early in the Revolution. The Plaza is a very\\npleasant resort for idlers, who will find a firm, green turf\\nfor lounging, benches and shade trees. The visit by\\nmoonlight is enchanting.\\nThe Palace, or old Government house of the Span-\\nish era, on the Plaza, is now used as the post-office and\\nUnited States Court Rooms.\\nBarracks occupied by United States troops, said\\nto have once been a monastery or convent.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "76 GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nConvents. Theie are two, the old Spanish convent\\nof St. Mary s, an interesting building, and the new con^\\nvent, a tasteful edifice built of Coquina.\\nCemeteries. The old Huguenot burying-ground is\\na place of much interest In the military burying-ground,\\nunder three pyramids of Coquina, stuccoed and whitened,\\nare the ashes of Major Dade and 107 men of his command,\\nwho were massacred by Osceola and his band.\\nSea-Wall. A fine sea-wall of nearly a mile in\\nlength, built of Coquina, with a coping of granite, pro-\\ntects the entire bay front of the city, and affords a de-\\nlightful promenade on a moonlight evening. In full view\\nof this is the old light-house on Anastasia Island, built\\nmore than a century ago, and now surmounted by a fine\\nrevolving lantern.\\nThe Bay and Anastasia Island. Boating\\non the bay is a favorite amusement on moonlight nights.\\nThe sail by day across the bay to Anastasia Island is\\ncharming. Beautiful shells of all descriptions may be\\ngathered on the beach, and sea-mosses and lichens may be\\ncollected for albums.\\nStreets. They are nearly all quite narrow one,\\nwhich is nearly a mile long, being but fifteen feet wide.\\nMany of the houses, with high roof and dormer windows,\\nhave hanging balconies along their second stories, which\\nseem almost to touch each other across the narrow street.\\nThere are a number of fine modern residences in the city,\\nand the gardens and orange trees are worth seeing.\\nSt. Aii\u00c2\u00a7:ustine by Iffooniight.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Hon.\\nMrs. Yelverton writes: Moonlight nights are the\\nglory of St. Augustine. So bright and cool, and soft and\\nbalmy, few can resist the enjoyableness of a stroll, or the\\ndreamy bliss of sitting out on the veranda listening to the", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 77\\nechoes of the band, or the tinkling of some distant guitar,\\ndreaming over all the happiness we know past, present\\nor to come.\\nThe country west of the Apalachicola River has not yet\\nbeen brought into railroad communication with the other\\nparts of the State. Its comparative isolation was the\\ncause of the recent movement in favor of annexing it to\\nAlabama. The extension of lines of the Jacksonville,\\nPensacola and the Mobile Railroad, will soon remove any\\nfeeling of discontent which may exist in Western Florida.\\nThe following are the principal cities and towns in this\\nsection of the State.\\nApalachicola. This city was formerly the seat of\\na very considerable trade. It was the shipping port for\\nthat rich cotton-growing region lying on the Chatta-\\nhoochie and Flint Rivers, which empty into the Apalachi-\\ncola River, and thus into Apalachicola Bay. The Chatta-\\nhoochee is navigable as far up as Columbus, Georgia a\\ndistance of 367 miles. The building of numerous rail-\\nroads in lower Georgia and Alabama, which tapped the\\nriver line, diverted trade from this old city to Mobile and\\nSavannah. The population has decreased, but it still can\\nboast about 1000 inhabitants. Owing to its fine site there\\nis no reason why, with capital and energy, its former pros-\\nperity should not be revived.\\nJflarianna. County seat of Jackson County. This\\ntown is situated on the Chipola River, an affluent of the\\nApalachicola, and navigable at certain seasons by small\\ncraft to Marianna. The business of this town is ordina-\\nrily done through Bellevue and Neal s Landing, about iS\\nmiles distant, on the Chattahoochee.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "78 GUIDE TO FLORIDA\\nThe extension of the Jacksonville, Pensacola and Mobile\\nRailroad will pass through Marianna, and must very much\\nincrease its prosperity, already ensured by the fertility of\\nthe adjacent country.\\nPensacola The principal city of Western Florida.\\nPopulation, 2,000. It is situated on Pensacola Bay, and\\nis enjoying a lucrative and growing trade. At the entrance\\nof the bay lies Santa Rosa Island, upon which is built Fort\\nPickens, the scene of one of the most famous sieges of the\\nearlier years of the late war between the States. The city\\nwas laid out by the English in 1763. Pensacola may be\\nreached from Jacksonville and Eastern Florida by means\\nof the railroad to St. Marks on the Gulf, and regular packet\\nsteamer from St. Marks to Pensacola Bay. The Pensacola\\nand Loiiisville Railroad connects at Pollard with the\\nMobile and Montgomery Railroad.\\nThe following observations upon the future of Pensacola\\nare taken from a pamphlet issued by the New City Com-\\npany:\\nThe City of Pensacola has natural advantages which\\ndestine it to become, by rapid strides, the Chicago of the\\nSouth. It is situated on the north coast of the Gulf of\\nMexico, in latitude 30 deg. 28 m. north, and longitude 87\\ndeg. 22 m. west of Greenwich, only ten miles from the\\nopen sea. Its thoroughly land-locked harbor covers an\\narea of over two hundred square miles, being about thirty\\nmiles long, and from five to eight miles in width, having\\nunsurpassed anchorage, and a depth of from thirty to thir-\\nty-five feet. The entrance to the harbor is about half a\\nmile wide, with an average depth on the har o{ twenty -four\\nfeet. The same depth is readily secured at the wharfage\\nline of the city. A laden ship of largest tonnage can ap-\\nproach the city at any time in the year, or leaving its\\nwharves can be in the open sea in an hour-and-a-half.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA. 79\\nThe rapid development of the iron mines of Ala-\\nbama, whose natural outlet to the markets of the world is\\nthe port of Pensacola, will not only contribute a consid-\\nerable quota to the commerce of this port, but will, in\\nconnection wifli the Florida forests, furnish superior mate-\\nrial for ship-building, which, at no distant day, must rival\\nin extent the similar industry of northern ports the prox-\\nimity and cheapness of all material required giving build-\\ners in this locality peculiar advantages.\\nSouthern or Tropical Florida is, properly speaking, that\\npart of the State lying south of latitude 28 deg. north. It\\ncomprises an area of 20,000 square miles, and has a pop-\\nulation of about 9,000 inhabitants. About half of this\\npopulation reside on the Island of Key West and the\\nneighboring Keys and islands extending into the Gulf of\\nMexico, and are engaged in the business of wrecking and\\nfishing. The raising of cattle upon the main-land is the\\nall-absorbing business of the inhabitants, who reside from\\n30 to 40 miles apart, and allow the cattle to graze on the\\npublic domain. The herds are immense in Manatee\\nCounty alone, there are 100,000 head of cattle.\\nThe main-land is level and divided into hummocks, pine\\nopenings and prairies. The hummocks are very rich, and\\nare covered over with a dense growth of timber consist-\\ning of live oak, water oaks, magnolia, bay, etc. The soil\\nis sandy. The pine openings are covered with scattering\\npines and a grass which affords fine pasturage. The prairie\\nlands occupy the interior portion of the State, bordering\\nupon the Kissimee River, the head waters of the St. Johns,\\nand the upper Caloosahatchee. They are dotted over with", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "8o GUIDE TO FLORIDA\\nsmall clumps of hummocks, containing from one to five\\nacres each, which give beauty and variety to the scenery,\\nand afford shelter during the heat of the day to innumer-\\nable herds of deer and cattle. There are also numerous\\nsmall lakes of pure water, filled with fish, some of which\\nare only a few rods in extent, while others are from two to\\nten miles in length. These prairies are the paradise of\\nthe herdsmen and the hunters.\\nThis section of Florida is capable of producing all the\\ndifferent products of the West Indies. There is a constant\\nsea-breeze off the Gulf Stream, commencing about eight\\no clock, A. M., and lasting until nearly sundown. The\\nclimate is very exhilarating. The thermometer averages,\\nthe year round, 73 deg. and the extremes are 5 7 deg. and\\n92 deg.\\nA railroad is projected from Jacksonville, along the\\nSt. John s River into Southern Florida. At present, the\\nmeans of getting to the harbors, on the extreme southern\\ncoast, are by sailing vessels from Jacksonville, Key West\\nand New Orleans, or overland, by the mail carrier s con-\\nveyances .from Gainesville on the Florida Railroad, and\\nEnterprise on the Upper St. John s River.\\nThe following are some of the most notable places in\\nSouthern Florida:\\nTampa Bay On the western coast, is a noble har-\\nbor for the largest vessels, and is about 40 miles long.\\nTowards the interior it divides into two branches, called\\nLittle Tampa and Hillsborough Bay. It is dotted with\\nsmall islands, the pleasantest of which is Egmont. In the\\nwaters of Tampa Bay enormous quantities of fish, and tur-\\ntles may be found. In shoal places the fish are so numer-\\nous that they impede the passage of boats. Sea fowl are\\nexceedingly numerous the beautiful flamingoes, in partic-\\nular, appear in long files drawn up on the beach, like", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORIDA 8i\\nbands of soldiers in red uniforms. The village of Tampa\\nhas regular mail communication with Gainesville, and\\npassengers avail themselves of the mail wagon for transit.\\nA railroad is projected to Waldo, on the Cedar Keys and\\nFernandina Railroad; when it is completed, Tampa will\\nbecome one of the most important ports on the Gulf.\\nChsiFlotlc Harbor, or Boca Grande, on the west-\\nern coast, south of Tampa Bay. It is about 25 miles long,\\nand eight to ten miles wide, and is sheltered from the sea\\nby several islands. The entrance between Boca Grande\\nKey and Gasperillo is six fathoms deep and three-quarters\\nof a mile wide.\\nThe fisheries in and around Charlotte Harbor are very\\nvaluable, and may be made more so. Probably a thousand\\npersons could find profitable employment. The fish are\\ncaught with seines. The finest oysters on the coast are\\ngathered here.\\nAlpativkee l^wamp, upon the head waters of\\nthe St. Lucie River, is the only swamp of any magnitude\\nin Tropical Florida.\\nIndian IS, Ives* is a vast lagoon along the Atlantic\\ncoast of Florida, extending a distance of nearly 100 miles.\\nIn some places it is four miles wide, and in others, not\\nmore than fifty yards wide. The Indian River country is\\nfilled with game, and is a celebrated resort of the sportsman.\\nliaL C Okee-Cho-bee A large, wild, solitary lake,\\nnear the everglades. Its length is twenty miles.\\nTlie Everglades Situated almost in the southern\\nextremity of the peninsula, is a vast shallow lake, over-\\ngrown with grass, pond lilies and other aquatic plants, in-\\nterspersed vWth innumerable small islands, of from one to\\none hundred acres each. These islands are principally\\nhummock lands, covered over with a growth of live and\\nwater-oaks and cocoa plums, with an undergrowth of", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "82 1:;U1DE TO FLORIDA.\\nmorning-glories, grapes and other vines, and are extremely\\nfertile. The water is from four inches to four feet deep,\\nand is very clear and pure. In many places are channels\\nand sinks where the water is from ten to fifty feet deep;\\nthese holes are well supplied with fish, of which the trout\\nis the most desirable. Alligators and turtle are abundant,\\nand panthers, wild-cats, and bears are quite numerous.\\nFlowers of the sweetest fragance, and of every hue and\\ncolor, greet the eye. The border and outer margin of the\\nEverglades is prairie, of from one-fourth to one mile in\\nbreadth, and comprises some of the finest and richest land\\nin America, having once been a portion of the Everglades,\\nand formed by the receding of the waters. During the\\nIndian war the Everglades were the last retreat of the Semi-\\nnoles, and it was with the utmost difficulty that the gov-\\nernment dislodged them, so well adapted were the almost\\nhidden islands for defence and concealment.\\nBiscayne Bay At the end of the peninsula, and\\nemptying into Barnes Sound and Florida Bay, is an ex-\\ncellent harbor for all vessels drawing less than ten feet of\\nwater. It can be entered at all times. Great quantities of\\nturtle and sponges of the finest variety are secured here.\\nThe sponges and turtle taken from these waters are valued\\nat 1 00,000 per annum. Lieutenant Governor Gleason\\nsays of the Biscayne Bay country The pure water, the\\nchalybeate and other mineral springs, the magnificent\\nbeauty of its scenery, the salubrity and equability of its\\nclimate, must make Biscayne Bay, at no distant day, the\\nresort of the invalid, the tourist, and the lover of adven-\\nture.\\nThe Keys. These are a series of islands, extending\\nalong the south coast, from Cape Florida to the Dry Tor-\\ntugas, lying between the main-land and the Florida Reefs,\\nand within three to five miles of the Gulf Stream. They", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "GUIDE TO FLORfDA. 83\\nare of uniform character, being of coral formation and\\nvery rocky. Some are only a few acres in extent, while\\nothers contain as many as 15,000 acres. Cayo Largo is\\nthe largest. These Keys are only a few feet above tide-\\nwater, and are mostly covered with a growth of hard-\\nwood timber. The land is too rocky to admit of general\\ncultivation.\\nKey West (The city and port of.) Telegraph\\nOffice. Is situated on the island of the same name, which\\nis seven miles long and one-and-a-half wide. It is eleven\\nfeet above the sea level. The population of the city is\\nabout 10000. It has a large trade in sponges, turtles and\\nfruits, and is a place of some manufacturing importance.\\nThere are twelve or fifteen cigar factories, making in the\\naggregate thirty to thirty-five thousand of the best Havana\\ncigars per diem. There is also a manufactory in successful\\noperation, for canning the pineapple the only one in the\\nUnited States. From five to eight thousand cans are put\\nup daily. Key West has five churches and the usual pub-\\nlic buildings. The United States Admiralty Court sits\\nhere. Two newspapers are published, the Dispatch, dem-\\nocratic, and the Guardian, republican. There are a few\\nlakes on the island, and several beautiful drives. The\\nland is covered in mid-winter with the greenest of foliage,\\nand tropical flowers grow in profusion. The climate\\nhereabouts is mild and agreeable, the thermometer ranging\\nfrom 79 to 86 degrees in summer, and 48 to 60 degrees in\\nwinter. The island is much visited by invalids. Constant\\ncommunication is had with New York, New Orleans,\\nHavana, Galveston and Cedar Keys by packet steamers.\\nThe passage to Havana occupies but a few hours. The\\nNew Orleans, Cedar Keys and Havana steamers afford\\nweekly connection with all points in Upper and Middle\\nFlorida, by means of the Florida Railroad. The principal", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "84- GUIDE TO FLORIDA.\\nhotel in Key West is the Russell House, which takes per-\\nmanent guests at ^15.00 per week. Board can be obtained\\nin numerous private families at reasonable rates.\\nThe Dry Tortugas islands, at the extreme end of\\nthe Florida Keys, and extending some distance into the\\nGulf of Mexico. They were used as a penal place for\\nConfederate prisoners during the late war, and several of\\nthe Lincoln conspirators were confined there. They are\\nforlorn, barren rocks, defended by fortifications, and\\nornamented with a light house.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "INDEX\\nPAGE.\\nAlachua Sink 60\\nAlbany, Ga 49\\nAlexandria 65\\nAlligator Shoo ting 23-71\\nAltamaha River 4I\\nAlpativkee Swamp 81\\nAnastasia Island 73\\nAncient Florida 23-67-69\\nApalachicola 77\\nArcher 61\\nArea of Florida 7\\nArgyle 42\\nAtlantic and Gulf Railroad.... 37\\nAncilla..,, 52\\nBaconton 49\\nBaldwin 55~58\\nBainbridge 46\\nBissayne Bay 82\\nBishop ot Florida, P. E 57\\nBlackshear 42\\nBlue Spring, (Albany, Ga 49\\nBiue Spring, (St. John s Riv.) 70\\nBonaventure Cemetery 34\\nBoston, Ga 45\\nBrock s Steamer Line 63\\nBronson 61\\nBrunswick, Ga 41\\nCairo 46\\nCallahan eg\\nCamilla 48\\nCathedral, St. Augustine 75\\nCedar Keys 61\\nCession of Florida to U. S. 5\\nChaires 51\\nChalybeate Spring 54\\nFAGB.\\nCharleston, S. C 3I\\nHistory 31\\nHarbor 31\\nHotels 31\\nStreets 32\\nPublic Buildings 32\\nPlaces worth Visiting. 32\\nCharlotte Harbor 81\\nChipola Big Spring 8\\nCivil War 6-31-34\\nClimate of Florida lo\\nClimax 46\\nConsumptives, Florida for... 25-26\\nCoosawhatchie 50\\nCotton 12-29-47-51\\nDancey s Place 67\\nDarlington, Steamer 63\\nDevil s Hopper 41;\\nDixie 45\\nDoctortown 41\\nDungeness Estate 58\\nDumi s Lake 68\\nDry Tortugas 84\\nEarly Vegetable Trade 12-57\\nEllaville 53\\nEnterprise 70\\nEverglades 81\\nFederal Point 67\\nFernandina 56\\nFevers 27\\nFinegan, General 6-54\\nFishing in Florida 20\\nFleming 40\\nFlorida Railroad 56", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "86\\nINDEX.\\nPAGE.\\nForrest Station, 47\\nForsyth Park 34\\nFort McAllister 39\\nFort Marion 74\\nFort Pulaski 34\\nGainesville 60\\nGeography of Florida\\nGeological Formation 8\\nGlenmore 42\\nGoodman $2\\nGovernment, present State.... 14\\nGreat Southern Mail Route... 16\\nGreen Cove Springs 66\\nGreene, Genl. Nathaniel, Es-\\ntate of. 58\\nGreen Spring 71\\nHardaway 49\\nHart s Road 58\\nflattie, Steamer 63\\nHawkinsville 69\\n.Havana Steamers 62-83\\nHibemia 66\\nHistoric Sketch 3\\nHogarth s Wharf. 66\\nHomersville 43\\nHotel Business in Florida 30\\nHouses, Cost of Building 29\\nHow to get to Florida 16\\nHuguenots in Florida 4\\nHunting in Florida. .20-23-71-80\\nImmigrants, Florida foT 28\\nIndian River 69-72-79\\nTnvalids, Florida for 25\\nJacksonville 55~64\\nJacksonville, Pensacola and\\nMobile Railroad 5\u00c2\u00b0\\nJasper 47\\nJesup 41\\nJohnston 4\u00c2\u00b0\\nKeys, the Florida... 82\\nKey West 83\\nLake City 54\\nLake George 68\\nLak2 Il.^.iey 7^\\nPAGE.\\nLake Jessup 71\\nLake Monroe 70\\nLake Rachel 52\\nLands, Cheap 28\\nLands, Price of. 29\\nLa Villa 65\\nLawton 43-47\\nLee, General 58\\nLeon County 51\\nLive Oak 48-53\\nLittle Lake George 68\\nLloyd s 51\\nLovick Pierce College 45\\nLumber Business i3-3 -57\\nMadison 52\\nMalaria in Florida 26 i\\nMandarin 65\\nMarianna 77\\nMcintosh 40\\nMellonville 70\\nMicanopy 61\\nMiccosukie $2\\nMidway. 5^\\nMiller s Station 39\\nMobile Steamers 62\\nMonticello $2\\nMonuments 34\\nMosquitoes 3\u00c2\u00b0\\nMulberry Grove 65\\nNaylor 43\\nNewmansville... 61\\nNew Orleans Steamers 62\\nNew Smyrna 69\\nNorthern Florida 50\\nNorthern Settlers 15\\nOcklawaha River 68\\nOkafonokee Swamp_. 4^-43\\nOkeechobee 81\\nOkloknee 48\\nOlustee, Battle of 6-54\\nOlustee Station 54 j\\nOrange Grove 69\\nOrange Mills 67\\nOrange Raising 29\\nOtter Creek 61\\nOusley 44", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\n87\\nPAGE.\\nPalatka 67\\nPalmetto 61\\nPatterson 42\\nPelham 48\\nPensacola S~7^\\nPicolata 67\\nPleasure Seekers, Florida for 20\\nPolitical Parties 14\\nPopulation 13\\nQuincy 5*^\\nQuitman 44\\nRachel, Lake 52\\nRain in Florida 10\\nRattlesnakes 30\\nRembrandt Island 68\\nRiverside 65\\nSanderson 55\\nSanta Fe Lake 59\\nSavannah, Ga 33\\nHotels 33\\nMonuments 34\\nTheatre 36\\nScott, General 69\\nScreven 41\\nScuppernong Grapes $0\\nSea Routes to Florida 17-18\\nSeminolre War 6\\nSeymour s Defeat 6-54\\nSilver Spring 8-68\\nSnakes 30\\nSouthern Florida 79\\nSprings 8-44-48-53-54-66-70-7 1\\nStarke 59\\nStatenville 47\\nSt Augustine S-23-72\\nHotels 73\\nSt. John s River 62\\nSt. Marks 55\\nStockton 43\\nPAGE,\\nStovsre, Mrs. H. Beecher 65\\nSunbury Fort 40\\nSulphur Springs (Suvi^anee) 48\\nSulphur Springs (Withlacoo-\\nchee) 44\\nSuwanee Station 48\\nSuwanee Spa 8\\nSwedish Colony 51\\nSwriss Colony 46\\nTallahassee 51\\nTampa Bay 80\\nTebeauville 42\\nThermometer, Range of 10\\nThomasville 45-48\\nThunderbolt 34\\nTimber 13-30\\nTocoi 67\\nTrail Ridge 59\\nTurnbull 69\\nUpperWhiteSulphur Spr gs. 47-48\\nValdosta 43\\nVegetable Trade 12\\nVolusia. 69\\nWakulla River 8\\nWaldo eg\\nWalthomville 40\\nWay s Station 39\\nWelaka 68\\nWellborn 53\\nWestern Florida 77\\nWhigham 46\\nWhite House 55\\nWh:te Sulphur Springs 53\\nWhitefield s Orphan House.... 36\\nWine Culture 50\\nYelverton, Mrs 76", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "a? UK\\n^^C\\nST. G-EORGE STREET,\\nW. W, PALMEIi, Proprietor.\\n(Late HOUGHTO^f PALMEK.)\\nThis favorite Hotel lias been completely renovated, internally and\\nexternally, and now presents unsurpassed accommodations for\\nTOURISTS AND INVALIDS.\\nSingle rooms and family apartments, en suite.\\nThe cuisine is in every respect unexc_:: .ic-r)?ible.\\nThe Magnolia staiids upon the highest grouad .hi city and ccii^-\\nmands a f.ne view of the ocean.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "Baltimore Savannah Steamship Line\\nCONNECTING CLOSELY AT\\nsayan:^^ah, ga.,\\nWith the ATLANTIC AND GULF RAILROAD for all points in\\nand with Central Railroad and Atlantic and Gulf, to aU points in the South and\\nSouthwest.\\nThe Line is composed of the following Staunch, First-class Steamships, well\\nfitted up for passcDgers.\\n1,000 Tons, 1,000 Tons,\\n^YORTn POIJfTt\\n1,000 Tons.\\nRATES OF PASSAGE,\\nIncluding Meals and Staterooms on Steamers between Baltimore and Savannah.\\nSAVA^f^fAH. $20.00.\\nJacksonville. 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R. and Atlantic and Gulf R. R., to all points in\\nGEORGIA, ALABAMA, MISSISSIPPI, TENNESSEE and LOUISIANA.\\nThe passenger accommodations of these Steamers are not surpassed by any\\nLine out of New York.\\nFOUR STEAMERS PER WEEK.\\nTUESDAYS, THURSDAYS and SATURDAYS\\nPASSAGE RATES, includisg Meals and Staterooms on Steamere,\\nbetween New York and Savannah.\\nSAVANNAH. $20.00.\\nSt. Aug-ustine, Fla $31 25\\nPalatka, Fla 30 25\\nEnterprise, Fla 36 25\\nJacksonville, Fla $2T 75\\nFemandina, Fla 27 75\\nPicolata, Fla 29 25\\nGreen Cove Springs 29 25\\nHibernia, Fla 29 25\\nOrange Mills, Fla 30 25\\nMonticello, Fla SO 50\\nQuincy, Fla 31 50\\nAtlanta, Ga 27 50\\nAlbany, Ga 31 50\\nSelma,Ala 35 00\\nMobile,Ala 41 00\\nNew Orleans, La 47 50\\nGainesville, Fla 30 25\\nLake City, Fla 30 25\\nMadison, Fla 30 25\\nTallahassee, Fla 30 75\\nMacon, Ga 28 75\\nEufaula, Ala 32 00\\nMontgomery, Ala 35 00\\nChattanooga, Tenn 30 00\\nRome,Ga 32 25\\nAtlanta 27 50\\nEvery TUESDAY, from Pier 16, E.R.\\nfoot of Wall St.\\nMURRAY S LINE.\\nx. DE o I -vmoo\\nMurray, Ferris Co., Agents,\\n61 62 South St.\\nEvery THURSDAY, Pier 8, N. R.\\nEMPIRE LINE.\\nH. Liying ston Gen. Barnes\\nWm. R. Garrison, Agent,\\nNo. 5 Bowling Green.\\nEvery SATURDAY, from Pier 8,\\nNorth River.\\nEMPIRE LINE.\\nSan Salvador I San Jacinto\\nWm. R. Garrison, Agent,\\nNo. 5 Bowling Green.\\nEvery SATURDAY, Pier 13, N. R.\\nBLACK STAR LINE.\\nHnntsTille Montgomery\\nR. Lowden, Agent,\\nNo. 93 West Street.\\nCEO. YONCE, Agent,\\nCentl R.E. of Georgia, 409 Broadway.\\nC. D. 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Agent, SAVANNAH, Ga, and to so state it on Ship s Receipt and\\nBill of Lading.\\nFreight Received and Through Bills of Lading issued by Agents of the Li_ie as\\nfollows\\nBOSTON TO SAVANNAH, GA.\\nDIRECT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Steamers SEMINOLE and ORIENTAL leave on the li.ith, 20th\\nand 30th of each month. F. NICKERSON CO., Agents, 205 State St., Boston.\\nBOSTON via NEW YORK TO SAVANNAH, GA,\\nShip daily via BOSTON AND PROVIDENCE R. R. and PROVIDENCE AND\\nNEW YOltK STEAMSHIP CO.\\nGEO. C. MORRILL, Agent, 77 Washington St., Boston.\\nNEW YORK TO SAVANNAH, GA.\\nPOUB DEPAKTUKES PEK ^t BEK.\\nMURRAY, FERRIS CO\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ships Leo and Virgo, Sailing Tuesdays, from Pier\\n16 East River. Office, Nos. 61 and 62 South Street.\\nWM. R. GARRISON Ships San Salvadf)r, San Jacinto, Herman Livingston,\\nand General Barnes, Sailing Thursdays and Saturdays, from Pier 43 North\\nRiver. Office, No. 5 Bowling Green.\\nR. LC)WDEN\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ships Huntsville and Montgomery, Sailing Saturdays from\\nPier 13 East River. Office, No. 93 West St. Returning, leave Savannah same\\ndays.\\nPHILADELPHIA TO SAVANNAH. GA.\\nThe PHILADELPHIA AND SOUTHERN MAIL STEAMSHIP CO. despatch\\none (if their Steamers, Wyoming or Tonawanda, every Saturday. Returning,\\nleave Savannah same day. W. L. JAMES, Agent, 237 Dock St., Phila.\\nBALTIMORE TO SAVANNAH, GA.\\nThe AMERICA, SARAGOSSA AND NORTH POINT, leave on 10th, 20th\\nand 80 of each month. JAS. B. ANDREWS, Agt., Flanigan s Wharf, Baltimore\\nInformation given, and Tickets sold by rail or steamship, to all points in\\nFlorida, in connection with the Atlantic and Gulf Railway. C. D. OWENS,\\nGenl. 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Y., and all principal points North and East. For latest\\nTime Tables see Circulara of Piedmont Am Line.\\nC-AlTTrOiV.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 See that your Tickets read via RICHMOND, GREENCORO\\nand CHARLOTTE.\\nC. TINGLING, S. E. ALLEN,\\nEastern Pass. Ag t, 9 Astor House, N.Y. Oen l Ticket Ag t, Greeuboro, N.C.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "1874. THE OtiD RELIABLE 1874.\\nBROCZ S LINE S STEAMERS\\nRUNNING BETWEEN\\nJACKSONVILLE AND ENTERPRISE,\\nox THB\\nST. JOHNS mVER, FLOI^IDA.\\nON ARRIVAL OF TRAINS FI103I THE NORTH.\\nTHE NEW AND ELEGANT PASSENGER STEAMER\\nLeaves JACKSONVIIiliE daily (except Sundays) for PAIiATKA\\nand all INTERMEDLITE POINTS, aud connecting with Steamers for\\nErMTERPBlSE, CliAY SPRINGS, SAL.T LAKE, DUNN S\\nL.AK.E, and points on tlie \u00c2\u00a9CKIiAWAHA RIVEIS.. At TOCOI\\nwith ST. JOHNS RAILROAD for ST. 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TOPHAM CO., Savannah, 6a.\\nFINE CI/OTHIN\u00c2\u00a9}\\nREADY MADE TO ORDER.\\nMEH S ri0^E.iriSMI\u00c2\u00a5O GOODS.\\nA Practical Book, one that Architects, Builders and Carpenters cannot afford\\nto be without, entitled\\nDetail Cottage and Constructive Architecture,\\nContauiing 76 Full Plates, 20 plates more than before ottered in a similar\\nwork for ten dollars.\\nPublished under direction of A. J. Bicknell.\\nOne large Quarto Volume, sent free by mail or express, on receipt of. .$10.00\\ncnxTiiCia: -a-hohitectxtdre.\\nBy FREDERICK C. WITHERS.\\nOne large volume of fifty, 9x14 plates, substantially bound in extra cloth, sent\\nfeif mail or express to any part of the United States, upon receipt of price. $29.00\\nMeeently Published,\\nBIOI23SrEI.!IL S VILLA-QE BXJILDER,\\nAnd Supplement*\\nIn One Volume, price $12.00\\nParties desiring the Supplement only, will be supplied, post-paid, on receipt\\nof $5.00.\\nA. li O H I T E C X XJ R, E.\\nBy CUMMINGS MILLER.\\nOne large Quarto Volume. Price, post-paid $10.00\\nA, J. BICKNELL CO., JPublisJiers,\\n27 Warren Street, New York.\\nCatalogue mailed free to any address.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "W. W. SILVER,\\nlllfi\\n102 Fulton Street, New York.\\nW@mwmmiw 9 Ii^MB \u00e2\u0082\u00ac^PM\\nFACTORIES, BUILDING-S,\\nMachinery and Views of Eyery Description Taken\\nAT SHORT NOTICE.\\nCOPYING AND PHOTOGRAPHING ON WOOD\\nA SPECIALTY.\\nBOUND TO PLEASE EVERY ONE.", "height": "2513", "width": "1526", "jp2-path": "guidetoflorida00olne_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "7.4\\nINDEX TO ADVERTISEMENTa\\nHOTELS.\\nFABG.\\nCharleston Hotel 2\\nSt. Augustine Hotel 22\\nMagnolia House 88\\nSTEAMSHIPS.\\nBaltimore Savannah S. S. Line 89\\nNew York Savannah S. S. Line 90\\nBrocks Florida Steamboat Line 93\\nRAILROADS.\\nAtlantic Gulf Line 91\\nAtlantic Coast Line, Bay Line Route, 21-35\\nAtlantic Coast Line all rail 2d and 3d pages of cover.\\nPiedmont Air Line 92\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nSinger Sewing Machine Co Reverse of Map of Florida.\\nH. A. Topham, Clothier 94\\nA. J. Bicknell Co., Architecture 94\\nW. W. 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