western peninsular railroad

Florida state law chapter 4252, approved May 26, 1893, incorporated the Western Peninsular Railroad Company, owned by John Flannery Williams, S. Tison, James P. McMullen, Walton Whitehurst and George W. Saxon,

for the purpose of constructing, equipping, operating and maintaining a line of railroad from some point on Tampa Bay, in township 31 south, range 17 east, in the county of Hillsborough, to a point on the line dividing the States of Georgia and Florida, in the direction of Valdosta, Georgia, with a branch from said line to a point at or near the town of Bartow, in the county of Polk, with the right of extension by the most practicable route through the counties of Manatee and DeSoto, to some point on the waters of Charlotte Harbor or the Gulf of Mexico, and such other extensions in or through the counties of Manatee, Pasco, Hernando, Citrus, Sumter, Orange, Lake, Alachua, Bradford, Columbia, Suwannee and Hamilton, as they may desire; together with all necessary branches and telegraph lines.

The railroad was promised land grants along its line if it began construction within two years and completed the line within seven years of the act.

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