COLLECTION NAME:
Touchton Map Library
Record
Accession Number:
2019.012.001
Short Title:
Sectional Map of St. Andrews Bay
Full Title:
Sectional Map of St. Andrews Bay And the Adjoining Townships. Land owned by the St. A.B.R.R. and Land Co.
Year:
1887
Month & Day:
May 27
Contributor(s):
Robert O'Neal
Continent:
North America
Country:
United States
State:
Florida
City:
Panama City
Geographic Area:
St. Andrew's Bay
County:
Washington; Calhoun; Bay
Language:
English
Verso:
In pen: St. Andrew's Bay 1887
Insets:
None
Direction/Orientation :
North at the top
Geographical Description:
From dealer description: An Ohio Mail Order City In Florida Detailed map of the St. Andrews Bay and the area around the modern Panama City, Florida, promoting the lands being sold by the St. Andrews Bay Railroad, Land, and Mining Company, an early Florida land scheme promoted to Ohio and Pennsylvania residents. While the map shows the subdivision of the area, there is almost no indication of human activity. East of Dyers Point, there is a Mill, Hotel and a School, the latter two on the road to Chipley at the bottom of Mill Bayou, there is also a Grist Mill. Other place names include: Parker Orange Grove Anderson Spanish Shanty Point.
A report by Pamela Brown for the University of Florida's Soil and Water Department notes: A Cincinnati mail-order company, the Saint Andrew Bay Railroad, Lands, and Mining Co., bought property in the Saint Andrew Bay area, and started nationally advertising 25 feet x 82 feet lots for $1.25. The advertisement attracted a lot of people and started a settlement boom as over 300,000 lots were sold. As the price for lots increased to $8.00, the company went bust. The map is accompanied by a Warranty Deed (No. 804) from the St. Andrews Bay Railroad, Land, and Mining Co. to Maria Frances Bennett (of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania), dated February 12, 1889 and signed by W. B. Lassieter, County Clerk.
In the late 1880s, the St. Andrews Bay Railroad, Land, and Mining Company, also known as the Cincinnati Company because it was based in Ohio, promoted real estate investment in St. Andrews by the Sea, offering lots by mail order with the following promotion: The loveliest location in all Florida. In a land where the genial climate of a winterless round of years will reward your every effort with the most bountiful harvests; where the summers are joyous seasons of refreshing breezes and invigorating nights of cool and healthful slumber; and where the winters are but bewitching contrasts to the summers in heightening and intensifying the delicious pleasure of a life in the fairest land the sun ever blessed with its genial kiss. There is but one Florida, and St. Andrews Bay is its brightest jewel. The scheme ultimately failed, but many of the buyers decided that they liked the area. In 1908 St. Andrews incorporated as a town for the first time. It grew to become a popular port in the early 1900s, and a regular stop on the shipping line between Mobile and Apalachiola. In 1927, the town was annexed by Panama City. Rarity OCLC locates no examples of the map, but we note an example of the map, which is listed on line in the Bay County, Florida Library.
A report by Pamela Brown for the University of Florida's Soil and Water Department notes: A Cincinnati mail-order company, the Saint Andrew Bay Railroad, Lands, and Mining Co., bought property in the Saint Andrew Bay area, and started nationally advertising 25 feet x 82 feet lots for $1.25. The advertisement attracted a lot of people and started a settlement boom as over 300,000 lots were sold. As the price for lots increased to $8.00, the company went bust. The map is accompanied by a Warranty Deed (No. 804) from the St. Andrews Bay Railroad, Land, and Mining Co. to Maria Frances Bennett (of Jenkintown, Pennsylvania), dated February 12, 1889 and signed by W. B. Lassieter, County Clerk.
In the late 1880s, the St. Andrews Bay Railroad, Land, and Mining Company, also known as the Cincinnati Company because it was based in Ohio, promoted real estate investment in St. Andrews by the Sea, offering lots by mail order with the following promotion: The loveliest location in all Florida. In a land where the genial climate of a winterless round of years will reward your every effort with the most bountiful harvests; where the summers are joyous seasons of refreshing breezes and invigorating nights of cool and healthful slumber; and where the winters are but bewitching contrasts to the summers in heightening and intensifying the delicious pleasure of a life in the fairest land the sun ever blessed with its genial kiss. There is but one Florida, and St. Andrews Bay is its brightest jewel. The scheme ultimately failed, but many of the buyers decided that they liked the area. In 1908 St. Andrews incorporated as a town for the first time. It grew to become a popular port in the early 1900s, and a regular stop on the shipping line between Mobile and Apalachiola. In 1927, the town was annexed by Panama City. Rarity OCLC locates no examples of the map, but we note an example of the map, which is listed on line in the Bay County, Florida Library.
Manuscript Notes:
Some small notations appear in pencil.
Subject Information:
Washington County; Calhoun County; Bay County; Panama City
Related Item(s):
L2018.111.012 (1889) and 2018.115.001 (1912) cover the same geographic area.
Sectional Map of St. Andrews Bay
