Source
State Library of Florida, WPA - Historical Records Survey, County Histories
Description
Brief description of the boundaries and the changes to the boundaries of Seminole County, Florida collected by the Works Progress Administration's Historical Records Survey. Additional information on Seminole County also included.
Note to Researchers:
Though the WPA field workers included extensive citations for the factual information contained in these county histories, it should be noted that these historical narratives were produced in the 1930s by federal government employees, and might reflect the inherent social biases of the era.
BOUNDARIES OF SEMINOLE COUNTY
(Sec. 45, Compiled
General Laws of Florida.
1927. Page 468.)
The county of Seminole shall comprise and include all that territory described as follows:
Commencing in the center of Wekiva river and in the center of the St. Johns river, at the place where the Wekiva river discharges its waters into the St. Johns river, running thence through the middle of the Wekiva river in a southerly direction to the northwest corner of section nineteen, township twenty, south of range twenty-nine, east; thence south along the range line between ranges twenty-eight and twenty-nine, east, to the southwest corner of section nineteen, township twenty-one, south of range twenty-nine, east; thence east to the southeast corner of section twenty, township twenty-one, south of range thirty, east; thence to the township line between townships twenty-one and twenty-two, south of range thirty, east; thence east along said township line to the middle of the St. Johns river; thence following the middle of the St. Johns river to and through Lake Harney, into the St. Johns river; thence following the middle of the St. Johns river to and through Lake Monroe, into the St. Johns river; thence following the middle of the St. Johns river to its juncture with the Wekiva river at the point of beginning.(Ch. 6511, Acts 1913, Sec. 1.)
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