Florida--Geography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Jack Freeman Map Collection
Collection
Identifier: MSS 2016-003
Scope and Contents
Large-format facsimiles of historical maps. Locations include London, England and multiple sites within Florida.
Note to researchers: This collection is in process, and portions remain unavailable to researchers at this time. Please contact FSU Libraries Special Collections & Archives for more information.
Dates:
Other: Date Unknown
Lieutenant Benson's Survey- Lake Okechobee and rivers and lakes north of it
Collection — Box 138
Identifier: MSS 0-19
Scope and Contents
Photostatic copy of an eight-page manuscript report of a survey made by Lieutenant H. Benson, 2nd Artillery, Ft, Myers, Lee County, Florida, dated June 7, 1855 to Col. H. Brown, Commanding Officer of the troops on the Caloosahatchee, Florida.
Places mentioned in the report as having been surveyed are: Fort Center (which he left on April 12, 1855 with a detachment compsed pf one officer, two non-commissioned officers and twelve privates), Fish-eating creek, Lake Okeechobee, Kissimmee River, Fort Rasinger, Fort Ressinner, Lake Kissimmee, Straits connecting lakes, Lake Cypress, Fort Gardner, Lake Gentry, Lake Thopkaliga, Fort McRae and Fort Deynaud.
Lieutenant Benson's...
Dates:
Created: June 7, 1855; Other: Date acquired: 04/22/1954
