. A guide to Florida for tourists, sportsmen and settlers . and Waterways.) The way is alongthe waters shore, and the soil is particularly fer-tile in this region. The famous, or rather in-famous Turnbull Hammock is now Mims (150 m.) is passed. Titusville (154 m. pop. 838) is an old town lo-cated at the virtual head of navigation in the daysbefore the railroad was built down the famous Indian river oranges and the earlyvegetables from Merritts Island were broughthere to be shipped by the primitive little rail-road to Sanford on the St. Johns. Here there aregood stores
. A guide to Florida for tourists, sportsmen and settlers . and Waterways.) The way is alongthe waters shore, and the soil is particularly fer-tile in this region. The famous, or rather in-famous Turnbull Hammock is now Mims (150 m.) is passed. Titusville (154 m. pop. 838) is an old town lo-cated at the virtual head of navigation in the daysbefore the railroad was built down the famous Indian river oranges and the earlyvegetables from Merritts Island were broughthere to be shipped by the primitive little rail-road to Sanford on the St. Johns. Here there aregood stores and a boat-yard for hauling out andrepairs. Fishing and oystering are active in-dustries, and the commercial interests of the townare reviving. It is a center for a well-tilled agri-cultural region, though orange growing is thechief industry. It is a sportsmens center, asmuch of the surrounding land is still forest andunused prairie, and the waterways to the east-ward across the Indian river open up much information can be obtained as to excur-.
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