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Melbourne's Logging Era: 1912-1932

Melbourne's Logging Era: 1912-1932

Vosatka, Ed

Paperback

Series: Images of America

AgricultureGeneral PhotographyRegional: South

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0738587311
ISBN13: 9780738587318
Publisher: Arcadia Pub (Sc)
Published: Feb 13 2012
Pages: 128
Weight: 0.65
Height: 0.40 Width: 6.40 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
Melbourne was a quiet coastal town of 157 people on Florida's Indian River lagoon. Farming, ranching, fishing, and related trades supported the local economy. Melbourne entered the industrial age in 1912, when the Union Cypress Company began manufacturing lumber from the private cypress and pine holdings of George W. Hopkins at Deer Park. This timber had a 1911 market value of over $2 million. Good employment and a local source of lumber brought development, and the company-owned mill town of Hopkins was eventually annexed by Melbourne. The company provided Melbourne's first electricity and out-patient hospital. The Union Cypress Railway provided the first direct route to Florida's interior across the impenetrable St. Johns River and marsh, saving over 100 miles and countless hours of back-road travel via Enterprise, which was 80 miles to the north. It opened the vast St. Johns prairie lands for settlement and carried much of the regional commerce.

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