River Junction, Florida

River Junction is an unincorporated community in Gadsden County, Florida, United States.[1] It became a municipality and raised funds for a sewer system. The arrangement was subject to legal proceedings that reached the Florida Supreme Court in 1936.[2] It ceased to be a town in 1941.[3]

The Apalachicola Northern railroad connected with the Louisville & Nashville railroad at River Junction.[4] Atlantic Coast Line Railroad had a shop there.[5]

The Florida State Road Department produced a map of the area in 1936.[6] Pine resin was brought to the area from Aspalaga Landing by ship and transferred to the rail lines.[7]

The River Junction Tribune was a weekly paper in the area.[8] The great Flood of 1929 affected River Junction and Chattahoochee, Florida. Henry C. Spear was River Junction's postmaster in 1901.[9]

Thomas Anthenlantha Lumpkin owned property in River Junction.[10]

The Alabama Midland Railway crossed the Chattahoochee River at River Junction.[11]

See also

Notes
  1. "River Junction, Florida". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. https://cite.case.law/fla/125/267/
  3. Merriam-Webster's Geographical Dictionary. Merriam-Webster. 1997. ISBN 9780877795469.
  4. "Traffic World". Traffic Service Corporation. November 18, 1916 – via Google Books.
  5. Board, United States National Railroad Adjustment. "Awards ... First Division, National Railroad Adjustment Board". U.S. Government Printing Office – via Google Books.
  6. "River Junction, 1936". fcit.usf.edu.
  7. Shores, Elizabeth Findley (November 18, 2010). On Harper's Trail: Roland Mcmillan Harper, Pioneering Botanist of the Southern Coastal Plain. University of Georgia Press. ISBN 9780820335223 – via Google Books.
  8. "River Junction Tribune (River Junction, Gadsden County, Fla.) 19??-1941". Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. 20540 USA.
  9. "The Political Graveyard: Postmasters of Chattahoochee and River Junction, Florida". politicalgraveyard.com.
  10. Georgia. A. B. Caldwell publishing Company. 1917.
  11. Records and Briefs of the United States Supreme Court. 1896.


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