APALACHICOLA AND ALABAMA RAILROAD

Florida state law chapter 3651, approved February 10, 1885, incorporated the 'Apalachicola and Alabama Railroad Company', owned by Jason F. McClellan, J. N. Coombs, H. L. Grady, John H. McClellan, W. T. Orman, M. T. Alexander, J. G. Ruge, Joseph A. Atkins, J. E. Grady, Jacinto V. Peirara, G. H. Ruge, J. N. Richards, Frank Philips, W. H. Milton and Jason B. Stone,

★ for the purpose of constructing a line of railroad from the City of Apalachicola, in the county of Franklin, and thence on the most direct practical route through the counties of Calhoun and Jackson, crossing the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad at some point in the county of Jackson and running thence northerly to the Alabama line, about 110 miles.
The railroad was promised land grants along its line if it began construction within two years; no land grants would be given for sections completed after five years.