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Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 44 Number 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 44, Article 1 Number 3 1965 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 44, Issue 3 Florida Historical Society [email protected] Find similar works at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq University of Central Florida Libraries http://library.ucf.edu This Full Issue is brought to you for free and open access by STARS. It has been accepted for inclusion in Florida Historical Quarterly by an authorized editor of STARS. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Recommended Citation Society, Florida Historical (1965) "Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 44, Issue 3," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 44 : No. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol44/iss3/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 44, Issue 3 The storical uarterly J ANUARY 1966 Published by THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY Published by STARS, 1965 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 44 [1965], No. 3, Art. 1 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY THE HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF FLORIDA, 1856 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, successor, 1902 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL SOCIETY, incorporated, 1905 by GEORGE R. FAIRBANKS, FRANCIS P. FLEMING, GEORGE W. WILSON, CHARLES M. COOPER, JAMES P. TALIAFERRO, V. W. SHIELDS, WILLIAM A. BLOUNT, GEORGE P. RANEY. O FFICERS JAMES R. KNOTT, president WILLIAM M. GOZA, 1st vice president REMBERT W. PATRICK, 2nd vice president LUCIUS S. RUDER, honorary vice president MRS. RALPH DAVIS, recording secretary MARGARET CHAPMAN, executive secretary D IRECTORS CHARLES O. ANDREWS JAY I. KISLAK JAMES C. CRAIG FRANK J. LAUMER ALLEN C. CROWLEY WILLIAM W. ROGERS HERBERT J. DOHERTY, JR. MARY TURNER RULE DAVID FORSHAY MORRIS WHITE WALTER P. FULLER LEONARD A. USINA JOHN E. JOHNS FRANK B. SESSA, ex-officio SAMUEL PROCTOR, ex-officio (and the officers) (All correspondence relating to Society business, memberships, and Quarterly subscriptions should be addressed to Miss Margaret Chapman, University of South Florida Library, Tampa, Florida 33620. Articles for publication, books for review, and editorial correspondence should be ad- dressed to the Quarterly, Box 14045, University Station, Gainesville, Florida.) . To explore the field of Florida history, to seek and gather up the ancient chronicles in which its annals are contained, to retain the legendary lore which may yet throw light upon the past, to trace its monuments and remains to elucidate what has been written to disprove the false and support the true, to do justice to the men who have figured in the olden time, to keep and preserve all that is known in trust for those who are to come after us, to increase and extend the knowledge of our history, and to teach our children that first essential knowledge, the history of our State, are objects well worthy of our best efforts. To accomplish these ends, we have organized the Historical Society of Florida. GEORGE R. FAIRBANKS Saint Augustine, April, 1857. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol44/iss3/1 2 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 44, Issue 3 THE FLORIDA HISTORICAL QUARTERLY VOLUME XLIV JANUARY, 1966 NUMBER 3 CONTENTS THE FLORIDA LAND AND COLONIZATION COMPANY ................ .................... Richard J. Amundson ...... 153 THE FLORIDA PRESS AND THE DEMOCRATIC PRESIDENTIAL PRIMARY OF 1912 .................................. George N. Green .... 169 MARCELLUS L. STEARNS, FLORIDA'S LAST RECONSTRUCTION GOVERNOR ............ Claude R. Flory ...... 181 THE SIEGE OF PENSACOLA: AN ORDER OF BATTLE......... .......... Albert W. Haarmann ...... 193 NOTES ON THE BAREFOOT MAILMAN ............ Theodore Pratt... 200 PROCEEDINGS OF THE FIRST FLORIDA CONGRESSIONAL DELEGATION ................. Henry S. Marks .... 205 T HE ANNUAL MEETING, APRIL 22-24, 1965 ...................... 212 BOOK REVIEWS ................................................. 227 HISTORICAL NEWS ............................................... 255 CONTRIBUTORS ................................................. 264 COPYRIGHT 1966 by the Florida Historical Society, Tampa, Florida. Second class postage paid at Tampa, Florida, and at additional mailing offices. Printed by Convention Press, Inc., Jacksonville, Florida. i Published by STARS, 1965 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 44 [1965], No. 3, Art. 1 BOOK REVIEWS TePaske, The Governorship of Spanish Florida: 1700-1763, by Charles L. Mowat ............................................................................. 227 Kendrick, Florida Trails to Turnpikes: 1914-1964, by Fuller Warren ......................................................................................... 228 Hall, The Judicial Sayings of Justice Glenn Terrell, by Campbell Thornal ................................................................................. 229 Pent, The History of Tarpon Springs, by Mary McRae .......................................................................................... 231 Tebeau, They Lived in the Park, by John W. Griffin ................................................................................... 232 Helm, The Everglades: Florida Wonderland, and Emerson, Land of Beauty and Enchantment: Stories and Photographs of the Florida Everglades, by Charlton W. Tebeau ............................................................................ 233 Holt, Mary McLeod Bethune: A Biography, by Thelma Peters ....................................................................................... 234 Blanchard, We Remember John: A Biography of John W. Branscomb, First Bishop elected from Florida Methodism, by Doak S. Campbell ............................................................................. 236 Hardy and Pynchon, Millstones and Milestones: Florida’s Public Health from 1889, by William M. Straight .................................... 237 Goggin, Indian and Spanish Selected Writings, by Hale G. Smith .................................................................................... 239 Dolan, The Yankee Peddlers of Early America, by James Harvey Young .................................................................................. 240 Smith, Loyalists and Redcoats: A Study in British Revolutionary Policy, by Kenneth Coleman ............................................... 240 Perkins, Castlereagh and Adams: England and the United States, 1812-1823, by Thomas P. Govan ................................................. 242 Foote, The Civil War: A Narrative: Fredericksburg to Meridian, by John G. Barrett ......................................................................................... 243 Massey, Refugee Life in the Confederacy, by Kathryn Abbey Hanna ............................................................................... 244 Williams, Matthew Fontaine Maury, Scientist of the Sea, by H. O. Werner ............................................................................................ 246 Vandiver (ed.), The Idea of the South: Pursuit of a Central Theme, by Joe N. Richardson ................................................... 247 Leiserson (ed.), The American South in the 1960’s, by Leedell W. Neyland ........................................................................... 248 Silver, Mississippi: The Closed Society, by Rembert W. Patrick ...................................................................................... 250 Stephenson, Southern History in the Making: Pioneer Historians of the South, by David L. Smiley ......................................... 252 Coulter, Joseph Vallence Bevan, Georgia’s First Official Historian, by Ray E. Held .............................................................................................. 253 ii https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol44/iss3/1 4 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 44, Issue 3 THE FLORIDA LAND AND COLONIZATION COMPANY by RICHARD J. AMUNDSON HE FLORIDA LAND and Colonization Company, Limited, T came into being as a result of Henry S. Sanford’s desire to make his Florida real estate holdings pay bigger dividends. In the years following the Civil War, Sanford, then minister to Belgium, had invested in the South - a cotton plantation in South Carolina, a sugar plantation in Louisiana, and a large block (ap- proximately 23,000 acres) of undeveloped land on Lake Monroe in Florida, the so-called Sanford Grant. Sanford proposed to turn a portion of his land in Florida into a model orange grove and sell the remainder to others who he hoped would emulate him. In his attempt to lure large numbers of people to Florida, Sanford took the lead in founding and improving a town-San- ford, Florida. He built and operated a general store, hotel, slaughterhouse, cotton gin, wharf, and telegraph station, besides Belair, his plantation. He had streets constructed in the town and through his property the roads were graded. Town-building proved expensive; Sanford watched it eat all the profits from his many ventures. In addition, General Sanford, a Connecticut Yankee, found native Floridians less than friendly. Several Flor- ida courts decided against him in land controversies. 1 Sanford desired aid in his enterprise and sought to form a corporation which would not only take over, but expand his undertakings. He attempted to interest northern capitalists in his specula- tion, but found the attitude of his long time friend Charles A. Amory of Boston typical: “Your scheme of forming a land com- pany in Florida would be very good if you could be guaranteed from all interference of their Legislatures and Courts. The people of the South are bad enough individually,
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