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Leigh Read was never an official county of Florida. There was an attempt in 1842 to rename Mosquito County to Leigh Read County. It would have been named in honor of the former legislator. Although the bill honoring Read passed the legislature, a clerk kept the bill from reaching the governor's desk. Therefore, it never became official, but the name Leigh Read can be found in several documents of the time.

For other maps of this area, visit the Mosquito County and Orange County map galleries.

Detail- Leigh Read County, 1839 This detail of a map from the Tanner's Universal Atlas shows towns, forts, roads, canals, major rivers and lakes in Mosquito County. Mosquito County is shown as Leigh Read County on this map, a name change that was proposed by the State Legislature, ...

Detail - Leigh Read County, 1842 This detail of a 1842 map of Florida shows roads, railroads, counties, forts, naval depots and other military installations, major towns, rivers, and lakes for Leigh Read County, which was proposed but never passed in legislature, so is actually Mosq...

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