Chattahoochee and Alabama Railroad
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Florida state law chapter 3654, approved February 16, 1885, incorporated the Chattahoochee and Alabama Railroad Company, owned by M. N. Dickson, J. H. Stephens, Edward F. C. Dickenson, Alexander Hayes, H. G. Bryan, B. B. Barkley, C. B. Wynns, John B. Anderson, R. R. Pender and J. S. Baker,
- for the purpose of constructing a line of railroad from some point at or near the Apalachicola River where the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad intersects it, through Greenwood in Jackson County to some point on the Alabama line in said county east of the Chipola River a distance of about thirty miles.
The railroad was promised land grants along its line if it began construction within two years. No land grants were to be given for sections built after seven years.