Florida Historical Quarterly Volume 51 Number 3 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol 51, Article 1 Number 3 1972 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 51, Number 3 Florida Historical Society
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[email protected]. Recommended Citation Society, Florida Historical (1972) "Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 51, Number 3," Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 51 : No. 3 , Article 1. Available at: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol51/iss3/1 Society: Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 51, Number 3 Published by STARS, 1972 1 Florida Historical Quarterly, Vol. 51 [1972], No. 3, Art. 1 COVER Cedar Key, at the time this lithograph was made in 1884, was in the midst of an economic boom. Settled in 1842 by Judge Augustus Steele, the Cedar Keys were at first a summer resort. In 1855 Eberhard Farber acquired land in nearby Gulf Hammock and set up a sawmill at Cedar Key to saw logs for his pencil factories in Germany and New Jersey. In 1860 Cedar Key became the terminus for the Florida Railroad. After the Civil War the community expanded and broadened its economic base. Turtles, sponges, and fish were being exported in large quantities by the 1880s, as well as pine and cedar logs and lumber. The U. S. Customs House was moved to Cedar Key from St.