Chattahoochee and Alabama Railroad
- Chattahoochee and Alabama Railroad
The Chattahoochee and Alabama Railroad Company was incorporated under Florida state law chapter 3654, approved February 16, 1885, 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.
Land grants
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.
Owners
The company was 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.
ee also
* List of defunct Florida railroads
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