Detail View: Touchton Map Library: South Florida lands

Accession Number: 
L2018.058.090
M Number: 
M1865
Short Title: 
South Florida lands
Full Title: 
South Florida lands
Date Range: 
ca. 1922
Author: 
Jno. W. Pelot
Engraver or Printer: 
Foote & Davies Co.
Object Publisher: 
Jno. W. Pelot
Place of Publication: 
Arcadia, Fla.
Obj Height cm: 
43
Object Width cm: 
56
Scale: 
no
Continent: 
North America
Country: 
United States
State: 
Florida
County: 
Hardee
County: 
De Soto
County: 
Charlotte
County: 
Highlands
County: 
Glades
Language: 
English
Printing Method: 
photocopy
Geographical Description: 
Section map of Hardee, De Soto (DeSoto), Charlotte, Highlands, and Glades counties.
Cartobibliographic notes: 
Hand-drawn, with pictorial representations of topography. Shows county roads and railroad lines. Another map, very similar to this, is credited to William Elliott Dunwody, an Arcadia-based real estate developer and cattleman/citrus grower. Dunwody's map was published around the same time.
Subject Information: 
This map is among the earliest to show Hardee, Charlotte, Highlands, and Glades Counties, which had been created from DeSoto County by an act of the Florida legislature in 1921.
OCLC: 
1087508731