Florida's Population
The population growth of the various counties of Florida remained relatively steady in the years prior to the building of FEC railway.
"Florida was the least populated state east of the Mississippi River, it was the least densely populated state, it had only about 250,000 people in the whole state, and it was a backward part of the Union at that time. Most of the population lived along the Georgia-Alabama border in North Florida." "Florida was a very underpopulated, rural state." "Prior to the Civil War, most of the people moving to Florida had to come from nearby Southern states." |