International Railroad and Steamship Company of Florida
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The International Railroad and Steamship Company of Florida was incorporated under Florida state law chapter 3496, approved February 27, 1883, for the purpose of constructing and operating a railroad from a point on the line of the State of Georgia to Key West and Tampa, in the State of Florida.
[edit] Land grants
The railroad was promised land grants along its line. Florida state law chapter 4271, approved May 31, 1893, repealed the section granting lands.
[edit] Owners
The company was owned by John B. Gordon, Jonathan C. Greeley, John M. Bryan, John T. Leslie and William Bethel, of Florida; Hugh J. Jewett of New York; William L. Watson and Nathaniel Greene of England; Edward Warren of France; Hugh A. Harralson of Alabama; Robert W. Hunter of Virginia; and James M. Pace of Georgia.