Fort Meade, Keystone and Walk-in-the-Water Railroad

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Florida state law chapter 3498, approved February 28, 1883, incorporated the Fort Meade, Keystone and Walk-in-the-Water Railroad Company, owned by W. B. Brown, C. B. Lightsey, J. W. Hooker, Philip Dzialynski, R. C. Langford, C. C. Weson, J. F. Wilson, J. E. Robeson, George W. Hendry, Fred N. Varn and W. S. Atkins,

  • for the purpose of contracting, building, completing and maintaining a railroad from a point at or near Fort Meade, on the most practical route to the waters on the west side of Walk-in-the-Water Lake, in Polk county, State of Florida, with a branch railroad from Keystone to the waters. of Arbuckle lake.

The railroad was promised land grants along its line.