Peninsular Land, Transportation and Manufacturing Company, owned by Alexander St. Clair-Abrams, S. B. Harrington and J. L. Bryan, was incorporated by Florida state law chapter 3507, approved March 5, 1883. Among its powers was the right to open and operate a line of steamboats on the waters of the St. Johns river, the Withlacoochee River and the Ocklawaha River, and on the several canals of the State.