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The oldest town in interior south Florida, Fort Meade lies about 5 miles east of Tampa and 10 miles south of Polk County's seat of Bartow. In this volume, Polk County native Canter Brown recounts the intriguing story of the founding and evolution of Fort Meade during the last half of the 19th century, when it was first established as a military outpost to separate Seminoles from white pioneer families desirous of cattle-grazing lands. A civilian community coalesced at Fort Meade under the pressures of the Billy Bowlegs War of 1855-58. Quickly the village developed as a cattle industry center, which was important to the Confederacy until its destruction in 1864 by homegrown Union forces. In the postwar era the cattle industry revived, and the community prospered. The railroads arrived in the 1880s, bringing new settlers, and the village grew into a town. Among the new settlers were well-to-do English families who brought fox hunts, cricket matches, and lawn tennis to the frontier. Opportunities expanded as well with the growth of citrus, phosphate mining, truck farming, and tobacco industries. A boom-and-bust economy alternately bolstered and rocked the town, and the disastrous freezes of 1894-95 almost delivered a fatal blow. Yet through it all the community survived, as it has to the present day.
Detalles
- Título Fort Meade, 1849-1900
- Autor Canter Brown
- Encuadernación Tapa blanda
- Edición First Edition (?
- Páginas 232
- Volúmenes 1
- Idioma ENG
- Editorial University Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa
- Fecha de publicación 1995
- ISBN 9780817307639 / 081730763X
- Peso 0.85 libras (0.39 kg)
- Dimensiones 8.79 x 6.07 x 0.66 pulgadas (22.33 x 15.42 x 1.68 cm)
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Temas
- Chronological Period: 19th Century
- Cultural Region: South Atlantic
- Cultural Region: Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region: South
- Geographic Orientation: Florida
- Library of Congress subjects Fort Meade (Fla.) - History
- Número de catálogo de la Librería del Congreso de EEUU 94-25623
- Dewey Decimal Code 975.967
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