By Rand McNally & Co.
Located in Langweer, NL
Here is an antique map of Florida from the 1899 Rand McNally indexed atlas, a double-page sheet on pages 146 and 147 running from Pensacola and the Panhandle across the peninsula, with an enlarged inset of the central lake district.
The main map reaches roughly as far south as the latitude of Lake Okeechobee, the frontier southern tip of the state largely off the main sheet, with a "Southern Portion" inset extending the coverage further. The boxed inset at lower left, "Map Showing Parts of Lake, Orange and Volusia Counties, on Enlarged Scale", zooms into the lakes around Lake Apopka and Lake Eustis, an area of rapidly expanding citrus cultivation at the close of the 1890s. Hundreds of named lakes and the slow northward course of the Saint Johns River are drawn in unusually fine detail for a state map of this scale.
A railroad legend numbered in red at right lists over fifty companies, the Florida East Coast, the Florida Central and Peninsular, the Florida Southern, the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West, and the Atlantic, Valdosta and Western among them, with Jacksonville, Tallahassee, the capital, and the developing Tampa Bay area named along the coast. The crowd of lakes, groves and small rail spurs across the central peninsula, set against the sparsely mapped country further south, records how far Henry Flagler...
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Late 19th Century American Late Victorian Antique Rand McNally & Co.