The Gulf Railroad was incorporated under the laws of

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on June 2, 1896. In 1897 it built 10.1 miles of track from

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. In the 1897-1898 timeframe, it built 26.6 miles of track from Medford to

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. The President of the railroad, W.A. Bradford, Jr., purchased 160 acres of land and established the town of

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along that section of the line on March 14, 1898. The railroad was sold to the Hutchinson and Southern Railway Company, with the property conveyed by two deeds dated March 22, 1898 and November 13, 1899. That company in turn was sold to the

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on December 20, 1899. The trackage has since been abandoned.

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