FLORIDA IN THE LAND BOOM 1. THE MONEY MIGRATIONIn the 1. Florida was the focus of one of the greatest economic and. American history as hundreds of thousands of Americans of. Sunshine State and forever changed the global image of Florida. Two. important elements played roles in the Florida.
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As land. prices rose, the desire for profit rose. While not. all land speculating met with success, most investors in the beginning stages. Florida. Land Boom made a profit selling the land. An elderly man in Pinellas.
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County was committed to a. Pinellas property. When the value of the land reached $3. In the 1. 92. 0's in Florida the difference. BINDER BOYS AND REAL ESTATEThe need for real estate salespersons was so great at the height of the. Florida. relaxed its regulation of realtors.
It didn't really matter since two- thirds of. Florida real estate was sold by mail to. Florida. In 1. 92. Miami. Herald was the heaviest newspaper in the nation due to its massive land. Most binder boys were young. Many binder boys were college students with tennis or.
Often there was. little more than a fancy entrance way and a tennis court resting in some. Binder. boys did not get paid a commission until the binder check cleared the bank, a. However, South. Florida lived real estate during this time and binders discovered. It was exciting being a young person with. FLORIDA. POLITICS IN THE BOOMFlorida voters liked the business. John Martin, thrice mayor of Jacksonville, to serve as Governor. The Florida. Legislature in 1.
Florida their permanent residence. The rural. politicians were even willing to concede economic power to big cities like Miami and St. The Florida Chamber of Commerce contributed to the Land Boom. Florida land investment.
They invited every. Governor in the nation to view the state and sixteen Governors came and gasped. Governor Cary. A. Hardee, a small towner, cut the ribbon. Gandy. Bridge, the longest toll bridge in the. Later Hardee would be amazed at the plans of developer George Merrick to construct the.
Biltmore Hotel in Coral Gables. To placate. the needs of investors, the rural, conservative Florida Legislature liberalized rules for. That was hardly a concern to booming.
THE LAND DEVELOPERS - - KINGS OF THE 1. SIf the railroad barons dominated the Gilded Era, the great land. Florida. of the Land Boom. These people didn't just design developments; some created. These architects and engineers did more than build houses; they. Designers took advantage of Florida's warm climate and outdoor ways. Dave Davis, the son of a steamboat captain, dredged two mud islands at the.
Tampa's Hillsborough River and developed Davis Islands, a. Besides. Davis, the Tampa Bay area included a diversity of new 1. Temple Terrace, one of the first.
Snell Island, St. Petersburg's answer to Davis. Islands; and Beach Park, a residential community made possible by good urban.
Further. down the Florida West Coast, an railroad union designed one of the first retirement. Venice, and Barron Collier started Naples and Marco. Island as winter resorts. Carl. Fisher, the man who started the Indianapolis Speedway, teamed with. John Collins to build. Miami. George. Merrick, the man who designed the suburb of.
Coral Gables. Buying. Marrick created an entire. Florida. Strict rules limited the. He hide. wires beneath of streets. Lacking a. waterfront, Merrick designed Venetian Pool, the largest swimming. He hired William Jennings. Bryan to give Biblical.
Midwestern farmers and recruited major sports celebrities to. Merrick even started the.
Miami couldn't get from Tallahassee - - a college, when Merrick. South, the University. Miami. Young. selected an ugly ocean flat north of Miami and turned it into wide avenued. Hollywood. Florida, larger today than Young's original home town. Less successful. but more praised for his activities was architect Addison Mizner. He designed the Boca Raton Hotel (Cloister Hotel) and.
These were. just some of the developers who made the name Florida synonymous with palm trees and. Southernmost Florida. American Riviera.
Writers. from around the world made a pilgrimage to this fascinating new Mecca. Florida was a place.
EVENTS AND WARNINGSThere was plenty of. Florida. Land Boom was on swampy. Forbes magazine warned that Florida land prices were based solely upon. New. York bankers, losing money over Florida investment, attacked the entire. By 1. 92. 5, there were other signs. Companies were laying off construction and other blue collar workers while. Jacksonville, the state's main entrance way, outgrew.
On the surface, the Land Boom seemed on track. In 1. 92. 4. enough lumber arrived in Florida. But careful city managers. THE TIN CANNERSFlorida tourist had forever changed, and few. Sometimes as many as three families shared an automobile. They could not afford the fancy hotels and restaurants built. Victorian tourist.
They didn't golf and tennis. They wanted to play in. As early. had a . As the automobile grew in popularity, these . Owners along. the major highways built small cabins for these tourists. Soon, the development. The influx. of motorized tourism convinced Florida's.
The most amazing highway project was the. Everglades. Jaudon gained financing for a Miami. Surveyors discovered that the . Construction. crews began to erect gangways of cypress logs to roll the heavy dredges over. Engineers waded through alligator infested waters to locate the.
Sleeping in elevated cabins kept out the snakes and gators, but. The Seminoles were. In 1. 92. 3. the project was delayed due to lack of funding and Fort. Myers crusader. Ora. E. Chapin led a. caravan of Model- T Fords, tractors, and wagons across the incomplete roadway. In April of 1. 92.
It cost. seven million dollars, a meager sum by today's costs. It meant that South Florida's two tropical coasts were connected. PROHIBITION DAYSWhile rural Floridians accepted the outlawing of alcoholic beverages. Floridians actively disliked Prohibition. Unlike other Southern states, Florida had serious Prohibition problems due to both its. Bahamas. and its general environment as a vacation group for Northerners and foreigners. Despite the fact that locals were just a boat trip away from a wet vacation, Florida's tourist industry didn't want.
In 1. 92. 1, there were nine. Grand Bahama. Island. Palm Beach. Indignant Florida leaders. Bahamas. but the only concession England. United States. to search British vessels in Florida. Besides their speed and. Florida Strait. In 1.
Coast Guard introduced a. Still. some areas of Florida. Tampa, with its large Latin population, Miami, and Palm Beach were filled. It did not help Florida's. Al Capone, the. kingpin of organized crime, selected Miami.
Al decided Miami would be an. In the 1. 92. 0's canals and dikes were built across the. Everglades. Most of.
Despite. the general prosperity of the 1. Americans, the rapid. The anti- immigration movement and fear of the.
Klu Klux Klan in Florida. Individual racial incidents led to serious acts of violence in.
Perry (1. 92. 2), Rosewood (1. Oconee (Florida), when white mobs attacked. African- Americans and burnt residences. Working for nine to fifteen.
Many. migrant areas lacked schools and health facilities. They usually did not lack a. South Florida. to discover a noisy, neon snack, blaring away music that at least temporarily. The small. farmers of Florida did not benefit from the Florida. Land Boom. Neither did most towns in North Florida unless they were on a major highway.
The. departure of many young Floridians into the urban work force also crippled Florida's small towns. THE GREAT FLORIDA. LAND BUSTIn 1. 92. Suddenly, the only market for Florida land was for. The larger. cities of Florida.
They had borrowed heavily to finance new road and public. Petersburg. was the most indebted per citizen town in the United States. Key West ranked second. Caught. without customers, many realtors folded up business, sending their binder boys. One clever Pinellas realtor found a way to send his binders back up North. He contracted with a funeral company that by law had to. Northern cemeteries.
Instead of. funeral employees, the realtor and funeral director cashed in the two- way. THE HURRICANE OF 1.
The news of the Florida. Land Bust crippled the. Despite the continued boom in the United. States Stock Market, people no longer trusted buying Florida land. And yet. the land was merely overpriced. As if the. land collapse was not bad enough, a terrible hurricane hit South.
Florida in September of 1. Traveling parallel to the Atlantic Ocean, the storm suddenly turned west. Palm Beach. County into the heartland.
The migrant workers and small farmers of Lake Okeechobee. They had no automobiles for a quick escape.
As the. winds of the hurricane moved counterclockwise across the lake, the south end of. When the storm passed by, however, a huge tidal wave. Belle Glade and Moore Haven.
The. hurricane was an unwelcome coup de grace to the. Florida. Land Bust. Over 1. 3,0. 00 homes were. Miami. and the tidal wave had drowned 3. The news of people drowning in a.
Atlantic Ocean. amazed people across the world. The nameless migrants were piled up and burnt. The major developments were in ruins, many of them unable to.