Lt. Horatio G. Wright, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Lt. Horatio G. Wright
Wright was the first Florida chief of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (1852-1854). He superintended the first cut in what would become the Florida portion of the Intracoastal Waterway, joining the Matanzas and Halifax rivers at Titusville, Fla.

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