Tocoi, Florida

Tocoi was the site of a ferry landing and a local rail line to St. Augustine, Florida.

The nearby Tocoi Creek is a tributary of the St. Johns River.

[1] A commercial Spanish moss factory was located in the area.

[1] Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Ward's 1879 book Sealed Orders features Tocoi and its train station as a setting.

[2] Harriet Beecher Stowe, a 19th-century American author famed for her abolitionist writings, described her arrival by steamship at Tocoi and the train journey to Saint Augustine in her book, Palmetto Leaves (1873).

1876 map showing Picolata and Tocoi along the St. johns River west.of St. Augustine