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Florida Western

In 1895 Frederick Remington and Owen Wister travelled to Florida to write a story on Florida's cowboys for Harper's Weekly.



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Dothan Subdivision

After the completion of the Alabama Midland railroad it was acquired in July 1890 by Henry B. Plant of the Plant System and merged with the Savannah, Florida & Western.

Florida Western and Northern Railroad

The Florida Western and Northern Railroad was a railroad line built by the Seaboard Air Line Railroad in 1925 running from Coleman, Florida (south of Ocala) all the way to West Palm Beach via Auburndale and Sebring (near Lake Okeechobee), a distance of over 200 miles.

Grand Crossing, Florida

The site was so named in 1899 when two railroads crossed the Waycross-Jacksonville line of the Savannah, Florida & Western (Plant System) at almost the same location near Jacksonville, Florida.