[MANUSCRIPT MAP-FLORIDA & MISSISSIPPI RIVER] Map Showing Raiford's Proposed Artificial River and Plan to Continue the Western and Southern Inland System of Navigation to Harbors in the Atlantic.
[Fernandina, FL: circa 1870]. Manuscript map in dark brown ink with blue wash, the map depicting the southeastern United States reaching on the east coast from New York to Florida and in the west from Brownsville, Texas to Omaha, Nebraska. Sheet 10 x 9 inches (26 x 23 cm). Two horizontal folds, some light handling creases, very well preserved overall.

An attractive manuscript map illustrating Colonel Philip Raiford's proposed plan to construct a wide channel across northern Florida that would connect the Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi River, and onward to Galveston, Texas. A copy of a dealer description present reports this is the map printed and included in Report Relative to Inland Steamboat Navigation between the Mississippi River and Tributaries and Atlantic Ports published at Fernandina, FL in 1870 (not present). Colonel Philip Raiford was commissioned as Adjutant General of Alabama and organized a regiment of volunteers in Mobile for the Mexican War. In 1847, he was elected in Macon County to the Alabama Legislature and was appointed U.S. Agent for the Indian Territory in modern Oklahoma. Later he manufactured bricks for Forts Jefferson and Taylor in Florida before moving to Travis County, Texas to raise stock. After this diverse career, Raiford moved back to Georgia and was active in promoting a construction of a series of canals along the Gulf Cost and across Florida, depicted in the present map.

C The Collection of Jay I. Kislak sold to benefit the Kislak Family Foundation

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