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Digital Image: 1886 Titcomb Map of Kerr City and Norwalk, Marion County, Florida
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Title
Norwalk and Kerr City Florida.
1886 (undated) 25.25 x 31 in (64.135 x 78.74 cm) 1 : 31680
1886 (undated) 25.25 x 31 in (64.135 x 78.74 cm) 1 : 31680
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Cartographer
John Poore Titcomb (April 7, 1861 - June 26, 1932) was a civil engineer active in Florida and later Maine in the late 19th and early 20th century. Titcomb was born in West Newbury, Massachusetts. In both 1885 and 1886 he received homestead patents in Florida, near Lake Kerr, and in 1887, he appears in the Jacksonville city directory as a Civil Engineer. Similarly, in 1887, we see an advertisement for his services as a Notary and Civil Engineer in the Palatka Daily News. There he promotes his skill with the 'Blue Process' of map reproduction. He married Mary B. Todd (1868 - ????) in 1891. In this same year he was doing railroad and real estate surveys in and around Amesbury. Titcomb likely gave up these grants following the great freezes of 1894 - 1895, which devastate the Florida citrus industry. From 1892, until about 1899, Titcomb served as the City Engineer for St. Petersburg, Florida. Around 1900, he relocated to Amesbury, Massachusetts, where he was active as a surveyor and in the local Masonic lodge. It is likely he spent his winters in St. Petersburg and retained real estate interests there throughout this period. Sometime in the 1920s he appears on voter rolls in California, but he must have returned to Amesbury, as he died there in 1931. More by this mapmaker...