1915 Poole Brothers Railroad Map of Florida

This is a 1915 Poole Brothers railroad map of Florida published by the United States Railroad Administration in 1919. The map depicts the state from Pensacola to the Atlantic Ocean and from Alabama and Georgia to Key West. Solid black lines illustrating railroad routes wind their way across Florida in every direction, connecting major cities, such as Jacksonville, Tallahassee, Tampa, Orlando, and Miami, while stopping at innumerable smaller cities and towns along the way. Every stop on every line is labeled. Counties throughout Florida are illustrated and labeled as well, as are Florida's numerous rivers and lakes. The entire state is also overlaid with the grid of the public land survey system and, allowing the viewer to precisely locate a single township anywhere in Florida. An alphabetic index of cities and towns is situated in the Gulf of Mexico and provides the grid location on the map for each locality. Below the map's bottom border a railroad map of Cuba is included that also illustrates shipping lanes between numerous Caribbean and American ports.

Publication History and Census

This map was created by Poole Brothers in 1915 and published by the United States Railroad Administration in 1919. The OCLC records four examples in institutional collections which are part of the collections at the Wisconsin Historical Society, the University of Missouri - St. Louis, Florida State University, and the William Clements Library at the University of Michigan.