Martin Digital History

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  • "Turpentine still and turpentine ready to ship in barrels, 52 gals, each, worth SIXTY-FIVE DOLLARS A BARREL, at Johnston & McNeil's Camp, Near Stuart. All Such freight would leave Stuart, as Soon as Canal Is Completed for Use."

    Many barrels on a platform next to building, house in background, while men inspect. Johnston and McNeil operated a turpentine camp 16 miles south of Stuart, also called "naval stores." Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.

    Recorded in the Florida Photographic Concern Record Book #2 (PDF p. 65) as 8217 "8215=20 Turpentine Negs., Stuart, L."
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  • "Mackerel, caught Jan 6, 1923, in Ocean near Stuart, Fla. These fish are shipped in barrels to New York."

    Listed in Florida Photographic Concern record book 2 (M) as "7540 Mackerel Ft. Pierce."

    Used in report presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor. Published in the South Florida Developer (28 July 1925) with the caption: "A record catch of Spanish mackerel taken in a single day off the St. Lucie inlet by fishermen for the R.R. Ricou & Sons Co. of Jensen and Stuart. There were 100,000 pounds of fish in this haul. For twenty years commercial fishing has been one of the leading industries of these lower east coast communities."
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  • "Interior of fruit packing plant at White City, near Stuart, Florida on the north fork of the St. Lucie River." Large building with belts and men filling boxes. Listed in FPC record book 2 (G) as "7507-20 Grapefruit in Pack House Wabasso L." Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.
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  • "Shipping at High Rates by Freight from White City, Near Stuart, Florida." Workmen load boxes from packing house in White City. Listed in FPC record book 2 (G) as "7507-20 Grapefruit in Pack House Wabasso L." Presented by the Stuart Commercial Club to the United States Government Engineers at a public hearing (16 Jan 1923) in Stuart, Florida as part of a report requesting aid for a deep water harbor.
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  • The packing house for Ruxton pineapple plantation on East Coast Railway tracks in Eden (Jensen Beach). A windmill is visible behind the building. Ruxton Plantation became one of the largest pineapple plantations in the area after Sarah Saunders purchased the property around 1899. Poor copy.
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  • Packing house on Bessey Plantation.
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  • Packing house on Bessey Plantation.
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  • Men working in citrus packing plant amid bins of grapefruit.
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