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Eastern Route Map 1940
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Atlanta

lat:33.65349459599047
lng:-84.42546844482422

Junction point on Eastern Air Lines where the system's routes radiate to New York, Miami, Tampa, Brownsville, and Chicago. This city is known as the financial hub of the South.

Brunswick

lat:31.150164932565637
lng:-81.4771842956543

BRUNSWICK, center of Atlantic Coast shrimping operations.

Charleston to Jacksonville

lat:32.88578598731444
lng:-80.03660202026367

via Savannah, Georgia

Chicago to Louisville

lat:41.78667304519471
lng:-87.75604248046875

Via La Fayette and Indianapolis

Daytona Beach

lat:29.19323029196511
lng:-81.06742858886719

DAYTONA BEACH to the east, home of the 23-mile beach speedway, and all-year-round resort. A stop on certain schedules. This coastal region, south through New Smyrna, Titusville, and Melbourne, is the heart of Florida's citrus fruit export belt.

Folkston

lat:30.836951596495392
lng:-82.0071029663086

a small cotton town

Fort Lauderdale

lat:26.137871126896275
lng:-80.12947082519531

FORT LAUDERDALE, a deep water harbor and fishing resort.

Ft. Valley

lat:32.55448206939248
lng:-83.88422012329101

FT. VALLEY, west of the course is the center of the famous Georgia peach country.

Griffin

lat:33.24242043982672
lng:-84.27440643310547

pimiento canneries here.

Hazlehurst

lat:31.866332579615154
lng:-82.59967803955078

is a small cotton town. Toweling is a major item of textile manufacture in these small towns.

Jacksonville

lat:30.326063950143894
lng:-81.65931701660156

JACKSONVILLE, junction point for Eastern Air Lines. In 1832 only a ferry crossing, now the industrial and financial center of Florida.

Louisville to Atlanta

lat:38.183080999984085
lng:-85.74030876159668

Flies over Lincoln's Birthplace in Elizabethtown, Kentucky.

Lumber City

lat:31.93271550433633
lng:-82.68130302429199

east of the course is a milling center for the vast tracts of Georgia Pine that are situated in this area

Macon

lat:32.84123138501963
lng:-83.64852905273437

MACON, county seat, cotton center, home of Wesleyan (Methodist, Female) College, the oldest women's college in this hemisphere. Mercer University is located here.

McRae

lat:32.06177343653572
lng:-82.90300369262695

McRAE is the site of an intermediate field and was, during the early days of Eastern Air Lines, a fueling stop and communications center.

Memphis to Montgomery

lat:35.06133639733537
lng:-89.98146057128906

via Muscle Shoals and Birmingham

Miami

lat:25.77516058680343
lng:-80.19744873046875

Miami-2870

MIAMI, America's playground. Gulf Stream breezes maintain an ideal temperature in the winter, and offshore zephyrs make summer visiting a pleasure. Eastern Air Lines' main repair base is located here. The ships of the Great Silver Fleet are brought here periodically for thorough inspection and overhaul by staffs of motor, radio, instrument, and metal experts. Nothing is overlooked as these men recondition the giant liners for their daily runs over the eastern half of the United States.

Montgomery to Tallahassee

lat:32.406777054463
lng:-86.24765396118164

New York to Richmond

lat:40.77716173848788
lng:-73.87447357177734

via Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington, DC

Orlando

lat:28.553766680436862
lng:-81.36611938476562

ORLANDO, gateway to the lovely central Florida. Many delightful towns are situated in this lake filled area.

Richmond to Charleston

lat:37.50836412665648
lng:-77.3221206665039

via Raleigh

St. Augustine

lat:29.90167475017321
lng:-81.3204574584961

ST. AUGUSTINE, oldest city in the United States, to the east. Founded in 1565, Ponce de Leon's fruitless search for a Fountain of Youth ended here.

Vero Beach

lat:27.64597495805973
lng:-80.4144287109375

VERO BEACH, a stop on the Eastern Air Lines system, also a shipping center for citrus fruit. Southwest is Lake Okeechobee, around which is spread vast truck and fruit acreage. West of Fort Pierce is the northern tip of the Everglades, the dense marsh and swamplands of which little has been explored. In its dank heart Seminole Indians make their homes in the manner handed down to them through the centuries.

Waycross

lat:31.208103321325254
lng:-82.36175537109375

WAYCROSS, the famous Okefenokee Swamp lies west and south of this manufacturing and trading center. There is fine hunting in these swamp areas where game and birds are numerous.

West Palm Beach

lat:26.75051574561839
lng:-80.15830993652344

WEST PALM BEACH, Riviera of the Western Hemisphere, center of winter society activity and also one of Florida's important agriculture and trade centers.

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