The Everglade magazine
(Funding) Electronic format produced as part of Reclaiming the Everglades, a collaborative project of the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, funded by the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Program.; (Biographical) The Everglade Land Sales Company sold land in T50-52S, R38-41E (Broward and Miami-Dade counties), primarily for farms and groves. It had offices in Miami, Chicago, and Kansas City (Mo.). To encourage investors, it ran an experimental farm on reclaimed lands in Davie.; (Dates or Sequential Designation) v. 1, no. 6 (Feb. 1911), v. 2, no. 2, 7-8 (June, Nov.-Dec.1911), v. 3, no. 11 (March 1913).
Musa Isle Fruit Farm (Miami), 1898-1905.
In 1896, Otis Richardson planted a grove on the Miami River, near present-day 25th Avenue (Miami). His son, C. O. Richardson, soon took over, and ran the grove and a tropical preserves factory for some years after. The display in one of these photographs was at the first Dade County Fair, an annual fair sponsored by the Model Land Company to promote agriculture in South Florida, including on reclaimed Everglades land.; (Funding) Electronic reproduction. Miami, Fla. : Reclaiming the Everglades, c2000. Mode of access: World Wide Web. System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. Digitized from photographs at the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, Miami, Florida.
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