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1 ► Florida, Sarasota County, Sarasota — Railroad History — |
Near McIntosh Road, 0.5 miles north of Palmer Ranch Parkway, on the right when traveling north. |
The railroad came to Venice in 1911 at the request of Mrs. Potter (Bertha) Palmer. The Seaboard Air Line (SAL) Railway extended its line from Fruitville through Bee Ridge, where the Palmer's Sarasota-Venice Company was developing land, to the . . . — — Map (db m124900) HM |
2 ► Florida, Sarasota County, Venice — Venice Railroad and Depot |
Near East Venice Avenue near North Seaboard Avenue, on the right. Reported missing. |
The first successful railroad into what is now Sarasota County came when the United States and West Indies Railroad and Steamship Company, a subsidiary of the Seaboard Air Line Railway (SAL), brought its first train into Sarasota in 1903. Two . . . — — Map (db m4876) HM |