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  Reunion portrait, 1953

  Group portrait taken at a reunion gathering for the Richards Family of Eden.
  
  Front row: (left to right) Amy Ruth Nickerson, Sandra Richards and Gail Richards. Second row: Ruth Richards holding Frank Simon, Sarah Babcock, Ruth W. Richards, Amy Nickerson, Mabel Willmore holding baby Jim Simon, Mable Richards holding grandson Joe and Marilyn Richards. Third row: Mary & Edward Simon, Charles O Richards, Draper Babcock, Harry Richards, T. Edward Richards & wife Reba, Beverly Richards, Joseph Richards, Sarah Jane Babcock, William "Billy" Richards, Joe Jr. & Betty Richards.
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  Memories of Eden : a young girl's letters about life in South Florida's frontier from 1880 thru 1888 by [Lucie E. Richards LeTourneau (1860–1934)]; edited by Raymond Richards Brown.

  A collection of letters written by Lucie Richards who lived at Eden (near Jensen Beach, Florida), expressing the perceptions of a teenage girl from an urban area (Newark, NJ) living in a then-remote section of Florida. Letters are concentrated in the first few years. Lucie was the daughter of Thomas E. Richards, who in about 1879 homesteaded a large tract of land (near what is now Jensen Beach), establishing a pineapple plantation and called it Eden. His daughter, Lucie, arrived in January 1880 when their home, "Eden Grove House," was being constructed. This house took guests and the settlement grew around them. In November 1887, she married Joseph Howard LeTourneau and after her mother's death in 1905, they bought out the other inheritors of Eden Grove House, which stayed in the Richards' family for decades.

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