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Florida West Coast railroad plan aims for new city at Homosassa
Chicago officials announce plans for a Florida West Coast Development Company to build a railroad from Perry via Homosassa to St. Petersburg and Tampa within sixty days, completing by February. The project links Chicago and southern capitalists with a 3 million dollar plan, 34 000 shares paid up, targeting a new Homosassa city with a hotel and pulp mill, plus vast land holdings along the Gulf and Suwannee River.
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Chicago
Florida
Perry
Homosassa
St. Petersburg
Tampa
Florida West Coast Development Company
Illinois Central
West Coast
Chicago and
Southern Capitalists
Chicago Florida Society
John W. Martin
H. S. Hoover
T. F. Ragsdale
Harold Bartholomew
Panner
St. Louis
Gulf Coast
Suwannee River
Norfolk
Charlotte
N. C
Piedmont and Northern
Greenwood
S. C
Southern Power Company
Duke
Georgia and Florida Railway
Augusta
Madison
Lower West Coast
Piedmont
Georgia
South Florida
B. N. Duke
Pinellas Peninsula
Middel West
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Florida Club
Central West
Lenington
L. L. Kelly
West