ALL ITEMS: 'O-Neal--Robert


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3610Sectional map of St. Andrews Bay and the adjoining townships.DetailsO'Neal, Robert1887
Unusual antique cadastral map of St. Andrews Bay, Florida
O'Neal, Robert
1887
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$0.00O-Neal--RobertUnusual-antique-cadastral-map-of-St--Andrews-Bay--FloridaSOLD<br></br> Early, scarce cadastral map of St. Andrews Bay and lands owned by the St. Andrews Bay Rail Road and Land Company. Florida related. Noted features include Spanish Shanty Point, two mills, a hotel, Redfish Point, Pearl Bayou, Laughton's Bayou, Grand Lagoon, Hurricane Isle, and a "Road to Chipley". <br></br> A report by Pamela Brown for the University of Florida’s Soil and Water Department notes: <div class="indenttextblock"> "A Cincinnati mail-order company,the Saint Andrew Bay Railroad, Lands, and Mining Co., bought property in the Saint Andrew Bay area, and started nationally advertising 25 feet x 82 feet lots for $1.25. The advertisement attracted a lot of people and started a settlement boom as over 300,000 lots were sold. As the price for lots increased to $8.00, the company went bust." <a href="https://soils.ifas.ufl.edu/media/soilsifasufledu/sws-main-site/pdf/technical-papers/Brown--Pamela-Sue.pdf" target="_blank">Online, p. 46)</a> </div> </br> Oyster bars shown with " |||| " symbols. Additional manuscript compass rose. Scale 1 inch = 1 mile. Copyrighted by Robert O'Neal May 27th, 1887. <br></br> Map is accompanied with an early Warranty Deed issued by the St. Andrews Bay Railroad, Land, and Mining Co. in 1877 for a lot in a specified Block, Township, and Range on the map. Price for the lot in 1887 was $1.25.