Abstract
Historical study of Middle Florida in the antebellum period has understandably concentrated on the region's political evolution, economic development, and the formation of social classes. The region thus takes its place in the settlement of the southern backcountry as people from Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia moved south and west for virgin land to plant, in the process creating an economy of plantations, small farms, and slavery. This forms part of the opening of the American frontier which stretched from the Great Lakes to the Gulf of Mexico. Included as parts of this story in early Florida, as elsewhere in the new nation, are agriculture, banking, railroads, and land speculation, a major part ofwhich was the developments of towns.
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Reinberger, Mark
(2021)
"Early Town Planning in Middle Florida,"
Florida Historical Quarterly: Vol. 100:
No.
2, Article 3.
Available at:
https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol100/iss2/3
