Pensacola and Birmingham Railroad

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The Pensacola and Birmingham Railroad Company was incorporated under Florida state law chapter 3488, approved June 7, 1887, to build, construct, maintain, run and manage a railroad with one or more tracks, side tracks, offices, shops, wharves and buildings as may be to the interest of said company, from a point or place on Pensacola Bay, in Escambia County, Florida, by the shortest and most direct line to the State line of Florida, there to connect with such railroad company as may be now or hereafter incorporated by the general or special laws of the State of Alabama. The company was to begin construction within two years.

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The company was owned by Henry Horsler, John Cosgrove, E. E. Saunders and Richard H. Fries of Pensacola, Florida, and Lazard Kahn of Hamilton, Ohio.

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