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                              Progresso, Florida

[1] I find old maps [2] interesting. For instance, South Florida here used
to be one entire county—Dade with some lovely sounding towns that are for the
most part, no longer around. The upper portion of Dade (from 1895) there to
the left shows such places as Hillsboro (now just a street in Northern
Broward), Hypoluxo (now a street in Palm Beach County), Jewell (which no
longer exists as a town or a street as far as I know) and Progresso (which
became Wilton Manors [3]).

I found these old maps at the Color Landform Atlas of the United States, [4]
which has more modern maps of the United States. I suppose the webmaster put
these scans of an 1985 road atlas on the site, just because. I probably would
have—they're very beautiful.

[1] gopher://gopher.conman.org/IPhlog:2002/03/04/dade.jpg
[2] http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/1895/fl_1895.jpg
[3] http://www.wiltonmanors.com/wm_history_c1.htm
[4] http://fermi.jhuapl.edu/states/

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