Sanford and Everglades Railroad
Dublin Core
Title
Sanford and Everglades Railroad
Alternative Title
Celery Belt Line
Subject
Railroads--Florida
Atlantic Coast Line Railroad Company
Sanford (Fla.)
Description
List of latitude and longitude coordinates for the Sanford and Everglades Railroad.The creation of a railroad through Sanford began when a group of celery growers expressed interest in extending railroad tracks to their farmlands. When the Atlantic Coast Line ignored the requests, a group of prominent local growers provided the funds and began construction of the Sanford and Everglades Railroad. With the help of A.T. Rossiter, J.N. Whitner, A.P. Connelly, S.O. Chase, and F.P. Forester, the railroad was built and opened in 1910. The railroad broke off from the Atlantic Coast Line near 15th Street in Sanford and ran east until Beardall. It then turned south and ran until Pine Way where it turns west and reconnects to the Atlantic Coast Line railroad. By 1913, the Atlantic Coast Line purchased the property and rights to the Sanford and Everglades Railroad. The railroad was nicknamed the Celery Belt Line.
Source
Coordinates compiled as part of a RICHES student project.
Is Part Of
Railroads in Central Florida Collection, Map Overlays Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Format
text/plain
Extent
1 KB
Medium
1 text file with latitude-longitude listing
Type
Line Overlay
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Spatial Coverage
28.79762, -81.26668
28.75001, -81.26867
Temporal Coverage
1910-01-01/1913-12-31
Accrual Method
Item Creation
Mediator
History Teacher
Economics Teacher
Geography Teacher
Rights Holder
Contributing Project
Curator
Phillips, Clayton
Marra, Katherine
Digital Collection
Source Repository
External Reference
Robison, Jim. "Light Rail of Past: Celery Belt Line," Orlando Sentinel, July 4, 1999. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1999-07-04/news/9907020282_1_sanford-celery-trolley-tracks.
Robison, Jim. "Railroad Won't Go to Celery, So Farmers Built a Railroad." Orlando Sentinel, March 22, 1998. http://articles.orlandosentinel.com/1998-03-22/news/9803201118_1_celery-florida-railroad-sanford.
Railroad Commission of the State of Florida. Annual Report of the Railroad Commission of the State of Florida. Tallahassee, Florida: T.J. Appleyard, State Printer, 1914.
Francke, Arthur E. Early Days of Seminole County, Florida. Seminole County Historical Commission in cooperation with Seminole County Community College, Office of Community Instructional Services, 1984.
"Episode 25: The Railways of Central Florida." RICHES of Central Florida. http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/audio/Ep25-RailwaysOfCentralFL.mp3.
Mulligan, Michael. Railroad Depots of Central Florida. Charleston, SC: Arcadia Pub, 2008.
Murdock, R. Ken. Outline History of Central Florida Railroads. Winter Garden, Fla: Central Florida Chapter, National Railway Historical Society, 1997.
Turner, Gregg M. A Journey into Florida Railroad History. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008.
External Reference Title
<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/11190147" target="_blank"><em>Early Days of Seminole County, Florida</em></a>
Collection
Citation
“Sanford and Everglades Railroad,” RICHES, accessed December 6, 2024, https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/items/show/754.