Raising Cane And Refining Sugar: Florida Crystals And The Fame Of Fellsmere,
2022
University of Central Florida
Raising Cane And Refining Sugar: Florida Crystals And The Fame Of Fellsmere, Gordon Patterson
Florida Historical Quarterly
On Friday, November 13, 1931, the Vero Beach Press-Journal reported that “the possibilities of commercial sugar cane production are to be thoroughly tested by the Ammoniate Products Corporation, owners of large acreage within the Fellsmere Drainage District.“1 Four days later the editorial writer for the Fort Pierce News-Tribune declared that the reports of positive economic development in Indian River County were based on more than “synthetic enthusiasm.” Real progress was taking place. Frank W. Heiser, general manager of the soon-to-be-defunct Ammoniate Products Corporation acknowledged that he planned to clear 1,000 acres of muck land “for the planting of sugar cane.“2 …
Addison Mizner: Promoter In Paradise,
2022
University of Central Florida
Addison Mizner: Promoter In Paradise, Raymond B. Vickers
Florida Historical Quarterly
California's gold rush of 1849 and the Klondike gold rush of 1898 pale when compared to the Florida land rush of 1925. As tales of quick profits captured the attention of the nation, the boom in paradise became the greatest speculative frenzy in history. 1 Florida’s climate, new roads, and low taxes had appeal, but the chance of easy money fueled the hysteria. Real estate promoters littered the state with “the joyful and confident devastation of development.” Anything could happen as subdivisions rose from snake-infested mangrove swamps. Not since the days of the carpetbaggers had so many opportunists and swindlers …
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 75, Number 4. Includes the Table of Contents
History News,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress,
2022
University of Central Florida
Florida History Research In Progress, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
THE NEW HISTORY OF FLORIDA, edited by Michael Gannon, reviewed by Thomas Graham; PIONEER FAMILY: LIFE ON FLORIDA’S TWENTIETH-CENTURY FRONTIER, by Michel Oesterreicher, reviewed by James M. Denham; HUGH ROBINSON: PIONEER AVIATOR, by George L. Vergara, reviewed by James A. Schnur; HAVANA USA: CUBAN EXILES AND CUBAN AMERICANS IN SOUTH FLORIDA, 1959-1994, by Maria Cristina Garcia, reviewed by Charles W. Arnade; THE SEARCH FOR THOMAS F. WARD, TEACHER OF FREDERICK DELIUS, by Don C. Gillespie, reviewed by Wiley L. Housewright; FIFTY YEARS OF SOUTHEASTERN ARCHAEOLOGY: SELECTED WORKS OF JOHN W. GRIFFIN, edited by Patricia C. Griffin, reviewed by John H. …
The Frogmen In Florida: U.S. Navy Combat Demolition Training In Fort Pierce, 1943-1946,
2022
University of Central Florida
The Frogmen In Florida: U.S. Navy Combat Demolition Training In Fort Pierce, 1943-1946, Robert A. Taylor
Florida Historical Quarterly
One of the most serious challenges facing the Allies in World War II was the necessity of conducting amphibious landings against fortified enemy coasts. German and Japanese engineers shaped concrete, metal, and wood into a variety of fixed obstacles designed to damage or destroy landing craft and stop an invasion before it ever could really begin. By the end of 1942 American military planners were already pondering how to smash through such defenses so the European continent could be liberated from the Nazis. Soldiers, sailors, and civilian scientists sought a mechanical means of removing these sometimes ingenious traps. In the …
"Brasshats" And "Baby Fingers": The Battle Over Rural Education,
2022
University of Central Florida
"Brasshats" And "Baby Fingers": The Battle Over Rural Education, Stephen D. Andrews
Florida Historical Quarterly
Late in 1919, Grover Rogers returned to the cotton farms of Albertville, Alabama, after service in the “Great War.” Rogers had received his discharge six months earlier, and had worked his way slowly from Florida, through Georgia, and finally home to Alabama. Rocking on the front porch of his family’s sharecropping shack, Grover told an avid audience of family and neighbors about his travels. Along with tales of battle and Europe, he spoke of a hamlet called Plant City, Florida.
City Planning In West Palm Beach During The 1920s,
2022
University of Central Florida
City Planning In West Palm Beach During The 1920s, John F. Eades
Florida Historical Quarterly
In 1922 members of the newly formed Planning Board of the City of West Palm Beach agreed to have their municipality enter into a contact with city planner John Nolen. At the time, Nolen’s planning firm was the largest in the United States, and Nolen, along with a small host of other planners, was busy laying the cornerstones of the planning profession. The shaky business relationship between Nolen and West Palm Beach was a short one, lasting only about a year. By the time Nolen fulfilled his contractual obligations, the planning activity in West Palm Beach had fallen into utter …
"The Privations & Hardships Of A New Country": Southern Women And Southern Hospitality On The Florida Frontier,
2022
University of Central Florida
"The Privations & Hardships Of A New Country": Southern Women And Southern Hospitality On The Florida Frontier, Anya Jabour
Florida Historical Quarterly
In October 1826, Laura Wirt wrote to her cousin, Louisa Cabell Carrington, regarding her forthcoming marriage and move from her parents’ comfortable home in the Upper South to a lonely plantation in the newly-opened Florida territory. “I cannot endure the thought! The very prospect breaks my heart!” she exclaimed. 1 But, like many southern women, Laura found that her own preferences had little weight when set against her male relatives’ eagerness to achieve the fabled wealth of the Florida frontier. Laura’s father, U.S. Attorney General William Wirt, and her uncles, Robert and John Gamble of Richmond, Virginia, had invested in …
Title Page,
2022
University of Central Florida
Title Page, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Title page for Volume 75, Number 3. Includes the Table of Contents
Business Meeting Of The General Membership,
2022
University of Central Florida
Business Meeting Of The General Membership, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes of the May 25, 1996 Florida Historical Society Business Meeting of the General Membership Cocoa Beach, FL
Board Of Directors Meeting,
2022
University of Central Florida
Board Of Directors Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Minutes of the May 23, 1996 Florida Historical Society Board of Directors Meeting
Annual Meeting,
2022
University of Central Florida
Annual Meeting, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
The Florida Historical Society 94th Annual Meeting
History News,
2022
University of Central Florida
History News, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
Awards and Honors, Call for Papers,
Book Reviews,
2022
University of Central Florida
Book Reviews, Florida Historical Society
Florida Historical Quarterly
JOSE MARTI IN THE UNITED STATES: THE FLORIDA EXPERIENCE, by Louis A. Perez, Jr., reviewed by Leland Hawes; FLORIDA’S PIONEER NATURALIST: THE LIFE OF CHARLES TORREY SIMPSON, by Elizabeth Ogren Rothra, reviewed by Dennis L. Scarnecchia, PANIC IN PARADISE: FLORIDA’S BANKING CRASH OF 1926, by Raymond B. Vickers, reviewed by John J. Guthrie, Jr.; THE FLORIDA LAND BOOM: SPECULATION, MONEY AND THE BANKS, by William Frazer and John J. Guthrie, Jr., reviewed by Raymond B. Vickers; FEMINA PERFECTA: THE GENESIS OF FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY, by Robin Jeanne Sellers, reviewed by Tracey J. Revels; THE NAKED WARRIORS: THE STORY OF THE …
"We Could Have Sent The Old Barbarian Back To The Hermitage": Joseph M. White And Anti-Jacksonianism In Territorial Florida, 1821-1839,
2022
University of Central Florida
"We Could Have Sent The Old Barbarian Back To The Hermitage": Joseph M. White And Anti-Jacksonianism In Territorial Florida, 1821-1839, Ernest F. Dibble
Florida Historical Quarterly
In early territorial Florida, two political groups emerged with allegiances to national presidential leaders. One group was led by Richard Keith Call and other friends of Andrew Jackson.1 The second was led by Joseph M. White, friend of James Monroe and the Adamses. As a symbol of these early antebellum allegiances, Andrew Jackson’s “cronies” in Florida occasionally visited Jackson’s home, the Hermitage, near Nashville, Tennessee. For similar reason, Joseph M. White journeyed to Cambridge, Massachusetts, in 1831, to pay homage to his presidential circle by attending a Harvard commencement. Both John Quincy Adams and Charles Francis Adams thought it opportune …
Skilled Slave Labor In Florida: 1850-1860,
2022
University of Central Florida
Skilled Slave Labor In Florida: 1850-1860, Christopher E. Linsin
Florida Historical Quarterly
Writing of the two weeks she had just spent in “oppression and misery” in Florida, Mary Chestnut, the opinionated South Carolina aristocrat, saw her trip through Fernandina to Charleston in 1860 as a return “to the world”— her world of the civilized South.1 While Florida towns such as Fernandina did not offer the fine cultural characteristics of Charleston, the peninsular state— especially the five counties comprising “Middle Florida”— was as much a part of the political, social, and economic world of the South as was South Carolina. Like the older state, Florida became one of the first members of the …
Company Towns And Social Transformation In The North Florida Timber Industry, 1880-1930,
2022
University of Central Florida
Company Towns And Social Transformation In The North Florida Timber Industry, 1880-1930, Jeffrey A. Drobney
Florida Historical Quarterly
The history of industry and labor in the Post-Civil War South for many historians is a story of coal mining and textile manufacturing. Both industries have generated hundreds of historical monographs and represent a very visible part of Southern labor history, when the South’s largest industry, lumbering, has been virtually ignored. Historian Edward Ayers has reminded us, however, that the lumber industry “captures the full scope of economic change in the New South, its limitations as well as its impact.“1 A few monographs, such as Nollie Hickman’s study of Mississippi and Robert Maxwell and Robert Baker, and Ruth Allen’s work …
Railroads, Farmers And Senatorial Politics: The Florida Commission In The 1890s,
2022
University of Central Florida
Railroads, Farmers And Senatorial Politics: The Florida Commission In The 1890s, Tracy E. Danese
Florida Historical Quarterly
The 1887 Florida Legislature created the state’s first Railroad Commission to curb monopoly abuses by railroad companies. 1 The legislation, which vested regulatory jurisdiction in a three-person commission appointed by the governor, was popular and suited to the reform tenor of the times. It had passed unanimously in the house and with only three dissenting votes in the senate. 2 Yet, in a peculiar twist of Florida political history, the commission’s statutory basis was abruptly repealed only four years later. Florida’s intrastate rail service was left once again unfettered by regulatory constraints.3 Then, six years later, the legislature reestablished the …
