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Hamilton Disston (August 23, 1844 – April 30, 1896) [1] was an American industrialist and real-estate developer who purchased 4 million acres (16,000 km²) of Florida land in 1881, an area larger than the state of Connecticut, and reportedly the most land ever purchased by a single person in world history.
The first real estate bubble in Florida was primarily caused by the economic prosperity of the 1920s coupled with a lack of knowledge about storm frequency and poor building standards. This pioneering era of Florida land speculation lasted from 1924 to 1926 and attracted investors from all over the nation. [1]
A pattern of political and financial motivation, and a lack of understanding of the geography and ecology of the Everglades have plagued the history of drainage projects. The Everglades are a part of a massive watershed that originates near Orlando and drains into Lake Okeechobee, a vast and shallow lake. As the lake exceeds its capacity in the ...
Loren Gerome Brown, nicknamed "Totch", (March 12, 1920 – May 8, 1996) was an author of historical accounts and first-hand descriptions of life in the Florida Everglades. [1] He wrote Totch, A Life in the Everglades. The book describes Floridians survived off the land from the late 1800s until recent times. [2]
The Florida Legislature obliged, creating Collier County on May 8, 1923, with Everglades (today's Everglades City) as the county seat. [ 1 ] [ 3 ] [ 2 ] Collier died March 13, 1939, in Manhattan , survived by his wife and three sons, Barron Jr., Miles, and Samuel , and was interred at Woodlawn Cemetery in the Bronx , New York.
The Everglades: An Environmental History. University Press of Florida. ISBN 0-8130-2302-5; Ripple, Jeff (1992). Big Cypress Swamp and the Ten Thousand Islands: Eastern America's Last Great Wilderness, University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 0-87249-842-5; Tebeau, Charlton (1968). Man in the Everglades: 2000 Years of Human History in the ...