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Florida state law chapter 3800, approved June 2 , 1887 , incorporated the Georgia, Florida and Key West Railway Company, owned by Fernando J. Moreno , Issac A. Stewart and Charles Delano ,
  • to construct and complete a railroad of Standard Gauge ,... for the transportation of passengers, produce, goods and all other articles of freight, together with a telegraph and telephone line from a point to be selected on the northern boundary line of the State of Florida , and running in a southerly and southeasterly direction to New Smyrna , or a point to be selected on the Atlantic Coast ; thence along the eastern and southern coast of the State of Florida to Key West , or to the nearest and most practicable point to the same.

  • The company was to begin construction within 1.5 years, and finish within five years.