Detail View: Touchton Map Library: Map of North America Showing Direct Passenger Transportation Lines between the United States, Mexico, The West Indies, Central and South America, also Illustrating the Geographical position of Florida and Location of the Railroad, Steamboat and Steamship Lines of the Plant System for Commerce with other States and the Countries South and East of the Gulf of Mexico
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Accession Number:
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L2017.030.028
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Short Title:
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Map of North America Showing Direct Passenger Transportation Lines between the United States, Mexico, The West Indies, Central and South America, also Illustrating the Geographical position of Florida and Location of the Railroad, Steamboat and Steamship Lines of the Plant System for Commerce with other States and the Countries South and East of the Gulf of Mexico
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Map ID Number (by publisher):
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14049
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Year:
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1889
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Object Publisher:
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The Matthews-Northrup & Co.
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Place of Publication:
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Buffalo, N. Y.
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Pub Title:
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The Plant System via Port Tampa To Cuba, West Indies, Mexico, South and Central America. / The Plant System of Railway and Steamship Lines
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Continent:
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North America
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Country:
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United States of America
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Cartobibliographic notes:
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The "Plant System" was a network of railroads, river steamer lines, and ocean steamship lines, built by industrialist Henry B. Plant across the Florida Atlantic Seaboard. The system established Tampa as a shipping hub between the rest of the U.S. and the Caribbean. The system transformed Tampa from a small town of about 700 to a fully industrialized city of over 7,000. A key part of this system was a tourist industry built on America's burgeoning leisure class, and Plant built eight luxury hotels along his rail line, the grandest of which was The Tampa Bay Hotel.
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