Manatee County (Images of America) - Softcover

Wiggins, Jim

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0738553131 ISBN 13: 9780738553139

Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC), 2007

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The area known as Manatee County opened for settlement at the close of the Second Seminole War in 1841.

This was due to Congress's passage of the Armed Occupation Act of 1842, which allowed settlers to claim 160 acres of land at a cost of $1.25 an acre if they were able to bear arms and live on the land for five years. It wasn't long before settlers appeared up and down the beautiful Manatee River, led by Josiah Gates and his family on the south side. Many of his friends had suffered losses with the collapse of the Union Bank in Tallahassee and were anxious to join him. The opulent shores on both sides of the river quickly enticed other settlers to make their claims, offering a cornucopia filled with some of Florida's best resources for growth and prosperity. This volume provides a pictorial account of those lives, which were caught in the struggle to carve out a niche against all odds in a place that faced epidemics of yellow fever, malaria, typhoid, and a third uprising of the Seminole Indians. In 1861, Florida seceded from the Union, which was followed by the Civil War with a Union victory in 1865 that brought an end to slavery and plantation ownership.

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Jim Wiggins is a fourth-generation Floridian who, like his father, was born in Ellenton. His books include Glimpses of Florida's Past and More Glimpses of Florida's Past, compilations of columns written for the Observer in Royal Palm Beach over a period of seven years. Another book, Ellenton: Its Earliest Years, is a popular book in its third printing. He is also a contributor to numerous magazines.

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• Verlag: ARCADIA PUB (SC)
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2007
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 0738553131
• ISBN 13: 9780738553139
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 127
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