Florida was provided with its first cross-state railroad in 1861 when the Florida Railroad Company line reached Cedar Key. Overcoming early financial troubles, the line had begun construction from Fernandina, on the Atlantic, in 1856, but building . . . — — Map (db m61565) HM
On 2nd Street at C Street, on the right when traveling east on 2nd Street.
This monument is dedicated to the Men and Women of Cedar Key who served their country in times of war.
World War II
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Alford, Jack • Alford, Peachman • Allen, J. C. • Allen, James • Allen, Robert • Andrews, Dan • . . . — — Map (db m237730) WM
John Muir, noted naturalist and conservation leader, spent several months in Florida in 1867. He arrived at Cedar Key in October, seven weeks after setting out from Indiana on a "thousand-mile walk to the Gulf." Muir's journal account of his . . . — — Map (db m17705) HM
On G Street at Third Street, on the right when traveling north on G Street.
(Side 1)
Harvesting redcedars (a form of juniper) for pencil manufacturing, along with pines and baldcypress for lumber, was of great importance to the Cedar Keys and the early development of North Florida in the late 1800s and early 1900s. . . . — — Map (db m155931) HM
