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1939 image of Cedar Key showing the Florida Railroad's former right of way and trestle remnants The Dickerson syndicate resumed operation of the Florida Railroad after the war, but with much of the railroad's equipment, facilities and track destroyed or seized, the company did not do well, and defaulted on its bonds to the Internal Improvement ...
A post office named "Cedar Key" was established on Atsena Otie Key in 1845. The Florida legislature chartered the "City of Atsena Otie" in 1859. [3] Cedar Key became an important port, shipping lumber and naval stores harvested on the mainland. By 1860, two mills on Atsena Otie Key were producing "cedar" slats for shipment to northern pencil ...
CEDAR KEY — Stay or go? Charlie Freeman, a Louisiana demolition worker, was facing a dilemma Saturday like the one Gulf Coast residents contemplated just a few days earlier when Hurricane Helene ...
In 1865, the Eberhard Faber pencil company built a mill in Cedar Key to cut slats of southern red cedar (Juniperus virginiana), which were sent to New York City to be made into pencils. The Eagle Pencil Company soon built their own mill in Cedar Key for producing cedar slats. [26] Many of the red cedar trees sent to the mills were cut in Gulf ...
Named for the trees that once covered the islands, Cedar Key, Florida, is located about four miles out in the Gulf of Mexico and connected to the mainland by a single road that crosses over four ...
The C Street Bridge, which connects with Dock Street at the Cedar Key Fishing Pier on the Gulf of Mexico, had a 6.7 million dollar renovation to be raised 3 feet. Its purpose is to provide an ...
The Florida Railroad, finished in 1861, served a similar purpose, connecting the Atlantic Ocean at Fernandina to the Gulf of Mexico at Cedar Key. [5] In the 1930s, regional politicians lobbied the federal government to fund canal construction as an economic recovery program, including the creation of the Canal Authority of the State of Florida ...
And on their first day on the ground in Cedar Key, founder Ann LeBlanc expects her organization will have delivered more than 10,000 hot meals to zones Hurricane Helene cut off from electricity.