The Chetwynd Chronicles

Although removed in the 1980s, those native to the area remember the railroad tracks from Leesburg north through Fruitland Park, Lady Lake and points north. Everything this Yankee read led me to believe the tracks closely paralleled US Route 441/27 the entire route. Bud Bosanquet disabused me of that notion when he showed me the roadbed east of the Bosanquet property and quite a distance west of the highway. This 1960s or so map of unknown origins illustrates the location well.

Note the round lake near the middle of the map. That’s Zephyr Lake. Stapylton, who had given the Southern Railway access to his land for $1, lived on the southeast portion of the lake; Augustus Bosanquet, who followed suit by granting right-of-way, lived near the northeast shore.

Today the roadbed can be seen behind the commercial properties along the highway.

Note that the tracks eventually parallels the highway at Eagles Nest Road where the Chetwynd/Dundee depot stood in the 1880s.
But more about that in the Chetwynd Chronicles. . .