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    Sun City. The land boom shaped Florida's future for decades and created entire new cities out of the Everglades land that remain today. The story includes...
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  • vacationers since the Florida land boom of the 1920s. A diverse population, urbanization, and a diverse economy would develop in Florida throughout the 20th century...
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  • began in the 1920s, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The 1926 Miami Hurricane and the Great Depression of the 1930s caused a great deal of economic...
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    abrupt end of the Florida land boom of the 1920s. In late 1925, The Aladdin Company of Bay City, Michigan, a pioneer in the manufacture of mail-order "kit"...
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    Warfield also built the Seminole Inn, which is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The Florida land boom of the 1920s fizzled out after 1926...
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    with the name "Venice", a name Higel himself suggested because of its likeness to the canal city in Italy. During the Florida land boom of the 1920s, Fred...
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    district in the heart of the old town contains important examples of architecture from the period of the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The district's...
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    to Florida and related development of hotels and resort communities. Combined with its sudden elevation in profile was the Florida land boom of the 1920s...
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    such as Clewiston and Moore Haven. The storm was a factor in ending the Florida land boom of the 1920s. Overall, the Miami hurricane resulted in at least...
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    during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. During that period, there were a series of efforts made to put in place drainage systems to reclaim dry land from...
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    Miami (redirect from City of Miami, Florida)
    white woman".: 53  The collapse of the Florida land boom of the 1920s, the 1926 Miami Hurricane, and the Great Depression in the 1930s slowed development...
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    Pennsylvania, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The city's architecture is almost entirely Mediterranean Revival style, mandated in the original plan...
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    Kenneth Roberts (author) (category Members of the American Academy of Arts and Letters)
    Florida land boom of the 1920s. They were Sun Hunting (1922), Florida Loafing (1925), and Florida (1926). Many people lost a lot of money in the bust that...
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  • development of a planned community called Aladdin City in southern Miami-Dade County, Florida, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The collapse of the boom...
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    Raton and the Florida Land Boom of the 1920s" (PDF). Tequesta. 46. Historical Association of Southern Florida. ISSN 0363-3705. Archived from the original...
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    suburb of Miami in the early 1920s by George Edgar Merrick during the Florida land boom of the 1920s, Coral Gables was developed entirely upon the City...
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    until the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) expanded south from Tampa. There has been a major real estate boom focusing...
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  • Flipping (redirect from Land flip)
    in the US, an 11-year high. A spate of flipping often creates an economic bubble which then bursts, such as during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. In...
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    moved to Florida when he was three years old. His father made a living buying and selling real estate in the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The family...
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    1920 the store was renamed to V-Dollar Limit Store as the maximum price went up to five dollars. Business prospered during the Florida land boom of the 1920s...
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    Zach Thomas, NFL player Allen West, congressman Florida land boom of the 1920s Broward County, Florida Everglades "History Misspells Itself In Plantation...
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    Joe Tinker (category National Baseball Hall of Fame inductees)
    which thrived during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. However, the 1926 Miami hurricane and Great Depression cost Tinker most of his fortune, and he...
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  • The following is a complete list of the 22 metropolitan areas in Florida, as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget. The largest...
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    Carl G. Fisher (category People from Miami Beach, Florida)
    promoters of the Florida land boom of the 1920s, which inculcated racial deed restrictions into Florida culture for decades. Prior to the hurricane in...
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    the buildings in the historic district were built during the Florida land boom of the 1920s, when Miami experienced rapid population growth. Many of the...
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    Pennsylvania, during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The Coral Gables Congregational Church, donated by Merrick, and the Catholic Church of the Little Flower...
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    without "passes." During the Florida land boom of the 1920s, Overtown was home to one of the first black millionaires in the American South, D. A. Dorsey...
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  • Perry Cutoff (category Defunct Florida railroads)
    times for its passenger trains to the west coast, or Gulf Coast, of Florida during the Florida land boom of the 1920s. The Perry Cutoff basically connected...
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    The climate of the north and central parts of the U.S. state of Florida is humid subtropical. South Florida has a tropical climate. There is a defined...
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    accessible by road. Economic bubble Florida land boom of the 1920s Real estate bubble Real estate economics Land banking scams Picayune Strand State Forest...
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