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Absolum Symons Estate. |
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Abstracts and Agreements to Charter. |
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Abstracts of Title, Bonita Springs. |
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Abstract of Title, Property Tax Receipts, 1918, 1924.
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Abstract for land in T54S R37E, located in the northeast corner of Everglades National Park and to the east of the park boundary. Tamiami Trail is the northern boundary. Prepared for Paul Taylor. |
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Aldridge, Daisy. |
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Includes manuscripts for The Night Riders of Kentucky and Tamiami Trail, and pictures of Daisy Aldridge. Includes three letters to Bernarr MacFadden describing sugar economy around Lake Okeechobee and providing autobiographical information, 1933. |
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Jaudon's secretary. |
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Aldridge, Daisy - Amanda Harris Acreage. |
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The American Eagle: Volume 19, Number 23, Oct 23, 1924, Volume 23, Number 12, Aug 2, 1928. |
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Analysis [of] cane, limestone, water, [and] peat, 1917-1919. |
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Correspondence analyzing and discussing potential economic benefits of the Everglades, particularly for growing sugar cane and for mining peat. Correspondents include Jaudon [Chevelier Corporation], E. H. Sellards [geologist], F. E. Harrison [South Florida Cane Growers Association], R. E. Rose [chemist], Robert Ranson [chemical and soil engineer], and Richard Whitney [Florida Humus Company]. |
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Analysis [of] limestone and sugarcane, 1919. |
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Correspondence relating to Chevelier Corporation interest in growing sugar cane, 1917-1920. |
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Aviation, Letters. |
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Baptist Church. |
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Bergen, William S. |
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Correspondence pertaining to payments for 400 acres [T52S R31E S26] Jaudon sold to Bergen in 1925. Bergen relinquished the property. Mentions Ida M. Wright. |
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Bird, H. W. |
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Correspondence relating to 2,500 acres in T52S R30E, the H. W. Bird Tomato Corporation, and the creation of the Collier County Land Company. Lists sales, including eight acres to Marjory Stoneman Douglas. |
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Bird Tomato Association. |
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Board of Public Instruction . |
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Transaction to sell property. |
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Bonita Springs. |
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Partial contents: essay relating to the construction of a railroad to Deep Lake, Seminole customs, and transportation by canoe, ox cart and foot. -- Newspaper advertisement, with town site plat, for lots in Bonita Springs, near Tamiami Trail. |
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Business, checks, etc.
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Cape Sable District and sugar crop. 1904-1923 (bulk 1923) |
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Correspondence relating to development of the Chevelier Tract and Cape Sable. Relates to plans and efforts to develop Everglades and Big Cypress land, including the Hopkins/Chevelier Tract, Paradise Prairie, and Cape Sable. Plans include sugar cane cultivation, dredging, drainage, land sales, logging, agriculture, and a proposed African American settlement. Some correspondence also discusses the sugar industry in Cuba. Correspondents include John Vogel, George W. Lex [Empire Land Company], F. K. Ashworth, C. V. Roman [Journal National Medical Association], Thomas F. McGarry, J. E. Connelly, A. R. McLane, J. R. Deane [Pennsylvania Sugar Land Company], and Park Trammel [U.S. Senator]. |
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Capps C. R. Seaboard Airline Railway. |
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Chevelier Corporation [miscellaneous]. |
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Records relating to Chevelier Corporation and the Hopkins/Chevelier Tract, 1920-1926, bulk 1920. Prospectus, advertisements, lists, and financial records relating to development and the sale of land in the tract, and to the construction of Tamiami Trail. |
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Chevelier Corporation, 1917-1920. |
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Correspondence relating to the purchase of the Hopkins Tract by Jaudon, road construction, Tamiami Trail construction, Chevelier [town], subdivision and sale of land, and a proposed hunting and fishing preserve within the tract. Correspondents include George W. Lex [Empire Land Company], Ross L. Clark, J. C. Dairs, G. W. Chance, George F. Cook, George R. Lynn, and D. A. McDougal. |
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Chevelier Corporation, 1922-1937. |
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Correspondence and records relating to the Chevelier Corporation and the Hopkins/Chevelier Tract. Relates to the town of Chevelier, sale of cypress timber, creation of Collier County, summaries of Jaudon's activities [1916-1928], tract development efforts, Tamiami Trail construction, Barron Collier, oil leases and exploration, financial difficulties, and the creation of Everglades National Park. Correspondents include George F. Cook, D. A. McDougal, S. C. Littlefield, and J. H. McCord. |
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Circuit Court Clerk - Collier County |
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City National Bank and Trust Co. |
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Coachman, R. A., Jr. |
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Collier County, Wildwood Lumber Company. |
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Contracts, Mortgages, Deeds, 1922-1935. |
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Copeland, D. Graham. |
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Copeland, Graham, bills, 1934.
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The Collier County News, August 8 and September 9, 1935; November 9, 1954. |
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Correspondence, 1914-1916, 1918-1924. |
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Correspondence, January-March, 1917. |
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Correspondence, April 1917. |
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Correspondence, May 1917 |
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Correspondence, June-July 1917. |
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Correspondence, August 1917.
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Correspondence, September 1917. |
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Correspondence [between husband and wife], 1922 . |
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Correspondence, 1925-1928. |
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Correspondence, 1930-1938. |
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Correspondence, marriage. |
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Correspondence, McBee and Tennessee land. |
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Correspondence, Mortgage, Irons Land and Development. |
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Correspondence, peat deposits, 1924. |
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Correspondence relating to Everglades peat as a potential fuel source. Correspondents include Robert Ranson, U.S. Senator Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, and mechanical engineer O. P. Hood. |
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Correspondence, Taxes -- Collier. |
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Cralle and Lynn, Correspondence on Sugar Plantation. |
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Correspondence relating to efforts to procure loan to establish Florida Sugar Cane Plantations and rum distillery, 1934. Relates to plans to develop 10,000 acres along Tamiami Trail. Correspondents include Duncan Upshaw Fletcher, George R. Lynn, and W. H. Cralle. |
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Cralle, W. H. |
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Correspondence relating to efforts to establish sugar plantations and a rum distillery in the Everglades, 1933-1934. Bulk of correspondence relates to efforts to procure federal loans, the Florida Sugar Cane Plantations, and investigations into sugar growing and rum distilling. Several letters relate to construction of a road to Chokoloskee. |
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Cross Ties - Fletcher, Oden, and Denis Weville. |
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Dawson, Letters and telegrams. |
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Deeds, Collier County. |
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Distillery. |
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Correspondence relating to efforts to establish a rum distillery in the Everglades, 1934-1935. |
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Douglas, Marjory Stoneman and Marion Manley. |
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Correspondence relating to land sold to Marjory Stoneman Douglas, 1925-1938, bulk 1926. |
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Drainage Taxes, Broward County, 1917-1931. |
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Correspondence relating to drainage taxes, 1917-1930. Includes letter describing the Everglades and the problems caused by Tamiami Trail. |
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Dwyer Note, 1926-1930. |
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Emery, Ada E. Agreement. |
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Everglades National Park. |
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Correspondence relating to the creation and boundaries for Everglades National Park, 1934-1936. Correspondents include D. Graham Copeland and D. A. McDougal. |
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Faraghan, J. E., Land sale, 1926. |
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Farming, Ochopee. |
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Federal Land Bank, Columbia S. C. |
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Financial Statements, 1926-1927. |
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Financial Correspondence, 1930. |
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Financial Problems [Collier County and West Iowa Stockholders], 1930-1931. |
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Financial, 1936. |
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Fruits and Vegetables. |
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Gibson, W. J. |
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Graham, G. W. [Chevelier Corporation].
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Hancock and Crawford. |
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Correspondence relating to financial debts, 1928-1935. Relates to payments of mortgage interest and property taxes, and to logging in the Everglades. Correspondents include W. B. Thomas and H. F. Hancock. |
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Heitman Estates, Bonita Springs. |
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Homestead Property, 1927. |
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Horrs Island Land Deal. |
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House, W. W. |
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Income Tax, Peter H. Miles. |
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Insurance on life of J. F. Jaudon, 1916 and 1921. |
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Jaudon, Ben. |
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Jaudon, J. F., Letters and bills, 1922-1936 |
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Biographical and autobiographical sketches of Jaudon and his career. Advertisement drafts. Papers relating to Seminole Indians: obituary for Annie Willie, essay describing burial rites, and instance of a Seminole living on private property. |
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Jaudon, Maude C. Bank statements, 1935.
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Jaudon Plantation, 1929-1934. |
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Includes agreement for purchase of Collier County land by Marjory Stoneman Douglas and Marion Manley, December 17, 1924. |
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Jaudon Sugar Cane Plantations, ca. 1935. |
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Jaudon Vegetable Growers, bank statements, 1935. |
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Land Deals, 1916-1920. |
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Correspondence relating to sale of land in the Hopkins/Chevelier Tract, 1916-1920. |
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Land, 1921-1924. |
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Records relating to settlements and development in the Everglades. Includes: Town of Everglades (Everglades City) charter. -- Advertisement for lots in the city of Chevelier. -- Booklet describing the Pennsylvania Sugar Land Company holdings and activities in south Florida. -- Deed. -- Price lists for land offered by the Jaudon Realty Company. -- Letter from Lean J. Canova to Jaudon (Royal Palm Sugar Cane and Planting Co.), comparing Chevelier Corporation land in the Everglades with that of sugar plantations in Cuba. |
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Land, 1925-1929. |
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Includes: Jaudon Realty Company advertisement for land adjacent to Tamiami Trail in Collier County. ca. 1930. -- Brochure promoting land in the Cape Sable District offered for sale by the Pennsylvania Sugar Land Company and the Royal Palm Sugar Cane and Planting Company. 1923. -- Brochure selling land in the Everglades and life insurance, by Commonwealth Protective Estate (Chicago) |
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Land Deals, 1925-1929. |
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Dr. E. K. Jaudon |
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Land, 1933-1938. |
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Land, Collier County. |
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Land plots. |
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Includes blueprint map, ca. 1930, showing ownership of 20,000 acres in the Chokoloskee Bay region [Ten Thousand Islands]. Also shows cultivated land. |
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Land, Surveyor General. |
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Letters from O. A. Hardin describing Southern Drainage District plans for levees, dikes and canals, 1918. Mentions Snapper Creek and Tamiami canals. |
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Letterheads and forms. |
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Liberty Bond and Mortgage Company. |
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Local Taxes. |
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Malcolm Lyde Properties. |
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McCord, J. H. |
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McKay, Mrs. Maud J., real estate. |
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McNeel Marble Company. |
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Miami. |
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Miami's early history. |
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Miami Coliseum Building and Stock. |
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Miami Pioneers. |
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Miscellaneous, 1904-1937. |
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Miscellaneous financial records. |
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Miscellaneous, undated. |
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Movie House History and Letter, 1911. |
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National Guard and Military.
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Newspaper Clippings. |
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Ochopee Airport. |
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Ochopee, Darnell. |
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Ochopee, Farmlands, Collier County. |
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Oil, gas, and minerals. |
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Oil lease, east of Tamiami Trail, Monroe County. |
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Chevelier Corporation oil lease, 1928. |
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Old Colony Club, Greenwich Colony Club. |
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Pennsylvania Sugar Company. |
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Letters relating to the establishment of the Royal Palm Sugar Cane and Planting Company in the East Everglades [T59S R39E], 1924. Also discusses Pennsylvania Sugar Land Company and Model Land Company activities on Cape Sable, especially as relate to sugarcane cultivation. Correspondents include Pennsylvania Sugar Land Company officers B. C. Small and J. R. Deane. |
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Pennsylvania Sugar Land Co., album. |
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1921? Includes pamphlet: Uncle Sam's Sugar Bowl / Gulf Sugar Corporation. Discusses sugar industry and possibilities in Florida. -- Photographs: views of sugarcane cultivation, sugar manufacture, drainage, construction, and Royal Palm Park (Miami) |
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Pennsylvania Sugar Land Co., newspaper clippings from album. |
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Includes advertisement for Miami Oil Land Company test oil well, located on Tamiami Trail. |
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Personal Correspondence. |
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Photographic prints: Farming and Tamiami Trail. |
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Political correspondence about taxes. |
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Postcards. |
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Ragsdale Realty correspondence, 1925. |
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Rand, Mrs. Katharine K. |
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Ranson, Dr. Robert. |
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Includes letters relating to the Everglades: peat harvesting, Ernest Coe's efforts to create a national park, hurricanes, oil drilling, Jaudon's farming efforts, and Tamiami Trail, 1926-1929. |
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Real Estate. |
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Real Estate correspondence: McDougal, Jennings, Horr, and Cook. |
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Letters relating to Tamiami Trail financing and construction; Dade, Monroe and Lee counties boundaries; Chevelier Corporation; proposed cross-state railroad, and oil drilling, 1922. |
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Receipts, 1928.
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Reconstruction Finance Corporation. |
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Robert, W. A., 1930. |
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Rowlands, Miss Minnie E. |
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Royal Palm Club. |
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Royal Palm Sugar Cane and Planting Company. |
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Correspondence relating to development of sugarcane plantations and sugar mills in the Everglades, 1924-1935. Letters discussing sugar cane cultivation and sugar industry in Cuba, Cape Sable, Clewiston, near Tamiami Trail [Ochopee], etc. |
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Royal Palm Sugar Plantation. |
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Rural Rehabilitation Board. |
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Russell, E. W. -- D. W. McLeod, Tax Assessor. |
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Schilling Company. |
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Seminole Indians/ Seminole Indian Association, 1917-1932 |
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Essays, notes and letters. Mentions the 1917 King survey party, a 1932 trip to a tourist attraction at Wildwood, N.J., John Osceola, Josie Billie, and other Seminoles. Writers include George Storter. |
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Senance Farm, Silas McBee. |
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Shields, Miss Kathryn. |
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Star Island Lot 20, correspondence and contracts. |
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Storter, Captain George.
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Sugar. |
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Sugar Agriculture. |
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Papers, mainly relating to sugar cultivation in the Everglades, 1919-1932. Includes: Article, Took Motor Trip through Glades. From Miami Metropolis, April 19, 1918. -- Report on Sugar Centrals and Plantations for South Florida / G. W. Chance. 1919. -- Letters relating to Jaudon's sugarcane plantation along Tamiami Trail. -- Analysis of sugar cane samples. |
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Sugar Cane Plantation, 1918-1937. |
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Tamiami Railway. |
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Correspondence relating to proposed Tamiami Railway, 1917-1927. Letters and telegrams, mainly about railroad financing, planning, routes, etc. Also discusses creation of Collier County and proposed designation of Naples or Everglades City as county seat, Carl Fisher, cypress timber, and Seaboard Airline Railroad Company in South Florida. Corporation pamphlet relating to the organization and promotion of the Tamiami Railway. Correspondence also pertains to economic use of peat from the Everglades. Digital images: |
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Tamiami Trail. |
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Papers relating to Tamiami Trail construction, 1926. Includes essay [The truth about Collier County], letters, and telegrams. Discuss route, chamber of commerce meetings, taxes and project funding. |
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Tamiami Trail, 1915-1917. |
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Includes letter to E. G. Wilkinson (Bonita Cattle Company)about Tamiami Canal, 1926. -- Response to a Miami Daily News Metropolis editorial, 1924. -- Short essay on history of Tamiami Trail and related explorers. -- Letter of thanks from John W. King after the rescue of his lost party, [1917]. |
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Tamiami Trail, 1918-1923. |
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Correspondence relating to Tamiami Trail route and construction. Letters mention a Seminole trail, camp locations [Billy Cowopatchee, Captain Tony, and Gutman Billy's camps], Tamiami Trail finances, Brown's store, Chevelier, Chokoloskee, Barron Collier, Deep Lake, Immokalee, and George Storter. |
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Tamiami Trail, bill dispute over contract, 1923. |
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Letters about Tamiami Trail funding and construction in Lee County [now Collier County] and Big Cypress Swamp. Much pertains to Lee County's role in project funding. |
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Tamiami Trail, 1924. |
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Letters, notes and article mention Dade County bond issues, route through Monroe County, convict labor, land sales along the Trail, etc. |
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Tamiami Trail. 1925-1927. |
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Includes: Open forum meeting of [Miami] Chamber of Commerce at Central High School, Miami, Fla., on night of April 26, 1926, for discussing the Tamiami Trail : transcription of meeting notes. -- The Tamiami Trail : real beginning of reclamation work in the Everglades west of Miami / Leonard A. Slye. Article from the Miami Realtor. |
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Tamiami Trail, 1928. |
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Tamiami Trail, 1929-1954. |
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Includes: Letters suggesting attachment of name plaques to trees planted along Tamiami Trail, declining the naming of a bridge after Jaudon, and providing information for the Federal Writers' Project. Mentions C. S. [Ted] Smallwood and George W. Storter. |
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Tamiami Trail, brief history by D. Aldridge, 1953. |
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Papers on the history of Tamiami Trail construction, 1917-1928. Essays, mainly by Jaudon. Includes excerpt from diary written by Franklin West while searching for the King survey party in 1917. |
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Taxes, Collier County, 1926-1927. |
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Taxes, Collier County, 1928. |
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Taxes, Collier County, 1929. |
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Taxes, Collier County, 1930. |
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Taxes, Dade County, 1925. |
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Taylor, Paul C.
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Taylor, Robert, Campaign |
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Telegrams, Jaudon and Coachman, 1925. |
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Telephone line. |
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Tennessee Holding Company. |
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Timber. |
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Letters to Paul C. Taylor, regarding timber contracts, 1934. Mentions Jeffrey Lumber Company, Valmont Corporation, and Wildwood Lumber Company. |
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Timberlands, Tennessee. |
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Tomatoes, Inc.; Biscayne Bond and Securities. |
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Includes letters arranging shipment of tomatoes on the Atlantic Coast Line Railway, 1934. |
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Vanderbilt Newspapers. |
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Wiedemain, W.
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Wildwood Lumber Company, 1936-1937. |
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Wildwood Lumber Company, T. J. Matesy, 1937. |
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Wood. |
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Woodlawn Park Cemetery Co. and McNeel Marble, 1926-1930.
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Abstracts and Agreements to Charter. |
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Includes: Charter certificate. -- Proposal for an east-west railroad across South Florida. -- Plans to plant trees along Tamiami Trail. -- Tamiami Trail right-of-way proposals. |
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Abstracts of Title. |
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Includes: Excerpt from account of J. E. Ingraham Everglades expedition, 1892. -- Abstract of title for W. S. Jennings land. -- Abstract of title for W. S. Jennings land. |
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Bank statements, 1927-1937. |
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Broward Special Drainage District. |
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Papers relating to drainage and the proposed Tamiami Railway, 1918. Letters and unsigned contracts. Letters suggest that railway construction will benefit drainage and land reclamation in the Napoleon B. Broward Special Drainage District and the Southern Special Drainage District because canals will also be excavated. |
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Business Correspondence, 1917-1918. |
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Letters relating to the Hopkins Tract purchase and subsequent plans for economic development, Tamiami Trail Corporation, Tamiami Trail Land Company, Tamiami Railway, Chevelier City, timber, and the sisal plantation. |
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Business correspondence, 1919-1938. |
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Concerns United States Cane Sugar Corporation [U. S. Sugar Corporation], Hopkins Tract owners and finances, timber sales from the Chevelier Tract, and the Chatham Bend Company. |
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Collier County controversy. |
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(Affidavits, telegrams and essay describing meetings, petition drives, Barron Collier's role in the creation of Collier County, and its effect upon the construction of Tamiami Trail. |
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Deeds, contracts, statements, etc., 1912-1921. |
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Deeds, contracts, statements, etc., 1922. |
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Deeds, contracts, statements, etc., 1923-1934. |
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Includes draft of a petition from owners of land in the southern Everglades to the Trustees of the Internal Improvement Fund, Commissioners of Everglades Drainage District, and Members of the House and Senate, 1923. |
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Empire Land Company. |
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Miscellaneous. |
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Papers relating to economic endeavors, 1915-1919. Includes: List of men involved in the Tamiami Railway. -- United States Sisal Trust. Sisal : the coming industry of Florida. Miami : Hefty Press, 1919? Brochure promoting the production of sisal (Agave sisalana) and listing officers and prominent shareholders of the United States Sisal Trust. Describes sisal nursery/plantation at T58S, R36E [on or near Long Pine Key]. Describes sisal cultivation and fiber production. -- Share in Miami Mineral, Oil and Gas Company. |
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Miscellaneous.
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Miscellaneous. |
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Includes a 1921 announcement that the Chevelier Corporation has sold 64,000 acres of land to C. T. Henshall and associates to establish a hunting and fishing club. |
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Reports of exploration, examination, and reconnaissance,, 1917. |
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Survey reports by John W. King: Report of progress upon preliminary survey for reclaiming lands within the Southern Drainage District, 1917. [Survey of lands in T53S R37E - 41E, T54S, 37E - R41E, and T55S R39E - R40E (Everglades north and south of Tamiami Trail, and east of Shark Valley to settlements along the coast) Mentions Tamiami Canal, Snapper Creek Canal, Tamiami Trail, and Larkins (South Miami). Illustrated with landscape photographs, identified by specific location (townships, ranges and sections), and map showing location of survey.] -- Report of exploration, examination and reconnaissance of the lands of the Tamiami Trail in Dade County, Florida, 1917. Mentions Tamiami Canal, Snapper Creek Canal and Tamiami Trail. [Landscape photographs are identified with specific locations.] |
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Reports of exploration, examination, and reconnaissance. |
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Survey reports by John W. King: Report of examination and exploration of township 53S range 29 E, township 53S range 30E, located in Lee County, Florida, 1917 [Inspection of Manetto Company's property to ascertain agricultural possibilities. Describes oyster beds in Chokoloskee Bay, and includes three photographs of Chokoloskee Bay. Describes Chokoloskee, Chokoloskee Bay, Turner River, Fickey-una-Hatchee River, Allen River, Half Way Creek, Barnes River and Big Cypress Swamp.] -- Report of examination and exploration of the A. W. Hopkins property, Monroe and Dade Counties, Fla., 1917. [Survey of land in T54-56S, R31-35E, mainly the northwest part of Everglades National Park. Describes geologic and botanical features, agriculture on mounds, and wildlife.] -- Report of exploration, examination and reconnaissance of the eastern portion of the property of A. W. Hopkins in Monroe and Dade Counties, Fla., 1917. [Describes five regions in the tract: cypress lands, pine islands, coastal hammock, coastal prairie and sawgrass marsh.] -- Descriptions of townships in the Hopkins Tract / S. J. E. Lucas. 1917? Descriptions of natural features, and reclamation, economic and agricultural potential for land in T54-55S R31-34E. |
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Robert Taylor campaign. |
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Tax returns and receipts, 1918-1926. |
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Tax returns and receipts, 1927-1929. |
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Envelopes and postage stamps |
