Orange County 1839

Over at the Florida Center for Instructional Technology at the University of South Florida, they have collected a bunch of historical maps of Florida, and planted them online.

This is a map of Orange County in 1839:


Yeah, it stretched from today’s Marion County down to Captiva Island on the west coast and way past Lake Okeechobee on the east coast. (Orange County was unofficially known as Leigh Read County for a short period of time.)