FEC Kissimmee Valley Line

the railroad that made Okeechobee and reached the muck

Founded

1915

Evidence class

historic or successor

Place

Maytown to Okeechobee and around the east side of the lake

District

Okeechobee

Status as of 12 September 2026

The northern section is abandoned from 1947; the lake shore trackage joins the sugar rail network.

Connections

3 edges, 3 distinct neighbours · betweenness 0.038 (rank 36 of 243) · location and lineage only 0.019 (rank 29) · outside share 0.00

Confidence

Medium · sources: [WKVL] [LAM4] [WBGL] (register)

The Florida East Coast Railway completes the line to Okeechobee in 1915, creating the town, and extends it around the lake's east side past Canal Point and Pahokee to Belle Glade by 1923, the corridor of the winter vegetable trains [WKVL][LAM4][WBGL].

Connections

Location and lineage

• foundedOkeechobeethe Flagler system lays out the townsite; the first train arrives 4 January 19151911 to 1915
• foundedBelle Gladethe lake shore extension reaches the muck settlement1923

Support

• supportedPahokeethe winter vegetable trains run on this corridor1923 onward