Correspondence relating to development of the Chevelier Tract and Cape Sable

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Material Information

Title:: Correspondence relating to development of the Chevelier Tract and Cape Sable
Creator:: Jaudon, James Franklin, 1873-1938
Reclaiming the Everglades ( contributor )
Publication Date:: 1923
Language:: English
Physical Description:: 42 items (88 p.) : ;

Subjects / Keywords:: Agriculture -- Florida -- Everglades ( lcsh )
Reclamation of land -- Florida -- Everglades ( lcsh )
Sugar growing -- Cuba ( lcsh )
Sugar growing -- Florida -- Everglades ( lcsh )
Sugar workers -- Florida -- Everglades ( lcsh )
Chevelier Tract (Fla.)
Hopkins Tract (Fla.)
Paradise Prairie (Fla.)
Sable, Cape (Fla.) ( lcsh )
Pennsylvania Sugar Land Company ( lcsh )
Empire Land Company ( lcsh )
Genre:: non-fiction ( marcgt )
Target Audience:: general ( marctarget )

Summary:: Correspondence relating 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).
Funding:: Electronic format produced as part of Reclaiming the Everglades, a collaborative project of the University of Miami, Florida International University, and the Historical Museum of Southern Florida, funded by the Library of Congress/Ameritech National Digital Library Program.

Aggregations:: Everglades Digital Library: Reclaiming the Everglades
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