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A Florida Travelogue from a Winter of 1912
The letter recounts a journey from Prospect Plains Jan 16 to Miami by way of Camden Philadelphia Wilmington Havre De Grace Baltimore Washington Richmond Hamlet Columbia Savannah Jacksonville and St Augustine. It describes Fort Marion dungeon Ponce de Leon spring the orange groves of Indian River Palm Beach the Breakers and hotel life. The writer notes frost signals impacting growers and a half day Everglades boat trip with Alligator Joe and Musa Isle.
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Cranbury Press
Miami
Fla
Prospect Plains
Mercury
Florida
Camden
Joseph Brown
Richmond
Hamlet
Pine’ Bluff
Cranbury
Columbia
Savanah
Jacksonville
Jersey
Europe
Hotel Aragon
St. Augustine
Florida House
Ft. Marion
Ponce de Leon
Palm Beach
Cocoa
Rockledge
Titusville
Indian River
the Gables
Lake Worth
Garden of Eden
Atlantic
Poinciana
Cole
Scott
Halcyon
New Everglades
Mami
Royal Palm Hotel
Biscayne Bay
Everglades
Aligator
Joe
Africa
Alligator Joe
Musa Isle
A. C. McGinn