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Title
Miscellaneous correspondence
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Item Details
CreatorCarson, James Milton; Farris, Ion L ( contributor ); Reclaiming the Everglades ( contributor )
Dates
Date Created1916
Descriptive Information(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) South Florida attorney James Milton Carson actively promoted drainage and reclamation of the Florida Everglades during the first quarter of the 20th century. In 1915, Carson convinced Judge Ion Farris to make drainage the central issue in his gubernatorial campaign platform. Although Farris lost the election, the drainage issue returned to the forefront of state politics.
TopicsDrainage ( lcsh )
Reclamation of land ( lcsh )
( lcsh )
Physical Descriptions
Medium25 items (69 l.) : ;
Contributing Institutions
Held By FIU
Hosted By Florida International University
Identifiers
Link to Complete Objecthttp://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/JC00010003/00001
Permanent Linkhttp://purl.clemson.edu/F5E0D0382C55AB09029B011C1DDC67E4
Batch ID20200403194624
Rights No known restrictions.
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