Orange Canal and Transit Company was a transit company of Florida.
Florida state law chapter 3823, which became a law in 1883 without the signature of the Governor, gave land grants to the company, which had built a canal connecting the waters of Tshala-popka lake in Hernando county with the Withlacoochee River, and opened that river by removing obstructions, and made thereby a route navigable by steamboats. It was also given the right to build dams with locks.
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