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Auction: 319 - Bonds and Share Certificates of the Americas
Lot: 3249

Atlantic & Gulf Coast Canal and Okeechobee Land Co. (FL) $10 shares, Philadelphia 188[93], #1220, vignettes at top of American eagle flanked at left by a scene of farmhands harvesting the sugar cane and at right of allegorical figure with produce, ornate border, printed by American Bank Note Co., black, uncancelled, VF

Founded by Hamilton Disston to dredge and reclaim the millions of acres of land that he owned around Lake Okeechobee. He operated many dredges and arranged for experience farmers to come in and settle the area. The company failed after the panic of 1893 although many of the debts were paid with help from J.P.Morgan. Disston shot himself in the head in 1896. (See also Disston land Co.).

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