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THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE (frontier sandy ford)

THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE (frontier sandy ford) is a Florida historical marker in Greenville, Madison County, dedicated 1971.

one block south of U.S. 90 in front of Baptist Chu, Greenville

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Begun as Sandy Ford, 1850, Samuel Williams was the first postmaster in 1854. Called Station 5 on the Pensacola-Georgia R.R., the name Greenville, for Greenville, S.C., came in the 1860's. Elijah Hays helped its expansion after 1876. Incorporated in 1907, W.D. Griffin was the first mayor. An orange producing center prior to 1895, its chief supports now are timber, cattle, and flue-cured tobacco.

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Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries

Historical maps covering this location

1851 · Tennessee, Alabama en Florida. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1859 · Colton's Florida (1859) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1860 · Johnson's Florida (1860) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1864 · Colton's Georgia (1864) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1869 · Georgia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Johnson's Florida (1860), 1860, covering the location of THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE (frontier sandy ford), with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Johnson's Florida (1860), 1860, covering this location. Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Florida Historical Marker Program, Division of Historical Resources, Florida Department of State

THE TOWN OF GREENVILLE (frontier sandy ford)

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