Bay Shore Driveway
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Florida state law chapter 4278, approved June 2, 1893, incorporated the Bay Shore Driveway, owned by Thomas C. Taliaferro, Howell B. Lykes, Louis G. Cone, Henry L. Knight, William B. Henderson, Henry B. Plant, Frederick A. Salomonson, David S. Macfarlane, Silas A. Jones, Andrew J. Knight and George R. Macfarlane,
- to build, construct, own and maintain a road or driveway, to be paved with shell, rock, clay or other suitable material from some point in the corporate limits of the city of Tampa, on the west side of the Hillsborough river, or from some point near the western boundary of said city of Tampa around Hillsborough bay to some point at or near Ballast Point on said bay, the location for said road or driveway to be selected by said corporation upon and along the most practicable route; and said corporation is hereby authorized to acquire land by purchase, lease or donation for said road or driveway, and to collect and receive reasonable toll from any and all persons walking or driving upon said road or driveway, or in any matter using the same; and the said corporation may erect such number of toll gates upon said road as it may deem best and most convenient for such purposes, and inclose such road with suitable inclosures, if it so desires.
The corporation was to be dissolved after 99 years.
If the road was built, it is now Bayshore Boulevard.
