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Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad
The Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad (P&A) was incorporated by an act of the Florida Legislature on March 4, 1881,〔(Acts of the Florida Legislature, 1881, chapter 3335 )〕 to run from Pensacola to the Apalachicola River near Chattahoochee, a distance of about . No railroad had ever been built across the sparsely populated panhandle of Florida, which left Pensacola isolated from the rest of the state.〔(Charles H. Hildreth, "Railroads out of Pensacola, 1833-1883," Florida Historical Quarterly, 1959 )〕 William D. Chipley and Frederick R. De Funiak, both of whom are commemorated in the names of towns later built along the P&A line (Chipley and DeFuniak Springs), were among the founding officers of the railroad company.
Chipley was general manager of the Pensacola Railroad, (formerly the Pensacola and Louisville Railroad, originally the Alabama and Florida Railroad, completed in 1860).〔("Alabama and Florida (of Florida)," ''Confederate Railroads'', accessed 1 September 2010 )〕 The Pensacola Railroad connected Pensacola with the large, prosperous Louisville and Nashville Railroad (L&N) at Pollard, Alabama, about northward. The Pensacola Railroad had become a subsidiary of the L&N on October 20, 1880.〔(U. S. Supreme Court Reports, ''L&N v. Palmes'', pp. 922-924 )〕 It was Chipley, a tireless promoter of his adopted city, who was responsible for initiating discussions with the L&N concerning its extension into the Florida Panhandle.〔(Gregg Turner, "Chapter 7: Doings in West Florida," ''A Short History of Florida Railroads'', Arcadia Publishing, 2003, pp. 81-86 )〕 De Funiak was general manager of the L&N.
Once the P&A was created, De Funiak was named president of the new road, and Chipley became its vice president and general superintendent. On May 9, 1881, the L&N obtained control of the P&A by purchasing the majority of its $3 million worth of capital stock and all of its bonds, also valued at $3 million.〔〔(Kincaid A. Herr, ''The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963'', fifth ed., 1964; reprinted by University of Kentucky Press, 2000, pp. 68-69. )〕 Construction was completed in 1883, and in 1891 the P&A was absorbed into the L&N, operating thereafter as the P&A Division of the latter.〔(Kincaid A. Herr, ''The Louisville and Nashville Railroad, 1850-1963'', fifth ed., 1964; reprinted by University of Kentucky Press, 2000, p. 388. )〕
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