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Pineapple crop, c. 1920
Field planted with pineapple seedlings under wooden structures to hold cover. Built by H. W. Kling. -
Men with sugar cane, 1920
Three men holding sugar cane. Possibly taken during Edith Coventry's 1920 Everglades boat trip. -
Cabbage field, 1920
Large cabbages in a field. Taken during Edith Coventry's 1920 Everglades boat trip. -
Field, 1920
Group of people observing a field. Possibly taken during Edith Coventry's 1920 Everglades boat trip. -
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Otto Stypmann house, c. 1900
Stypmann home surrounded by covered pineapple fields. Built before 1892, when Otto became the first postmaster and the house was used as a post office. Stypmann gave up pineapple farming in about 1913. The house is still standing at 453 SE Riverside Drive in 2023. -
Man in pineapple field, c. 1905
Man in pineapple field.
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Little boy in pineapple field, c. 1907
Little boy and man in pineapple field, house visible behind him. Probably William Maule McFarlan (1905–1982).
William Dowling McFarlan Jr. (1836-1925), brother Robert M. McFarlan (1843–1914), and cousin Louis Cass McFarlan (1850-1913) and his wife Lorena Maule McFarlan (1873-1962) and young son were regular winter visitors to Stuart from their home in Pennsylvania, between 1895 through about 1910. Both William, a retired merchant, and Louis, a cloth merchant, purchased several properties in Stuart between 1904 and 1907.
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Louis McFarlan with pineapples, c. 1905
Louis McFarlan in pineapple fields.
William Dowling McFarlan Jr. (1836-1925), brother Robert M. McFarlan (1843–1914), and cousin Louis Cass McFarlan (1850-1913) and his wife Lorena Maule McFarlan (1873-1962) and young son were regular winter visitors to Stuart from their home in Pennsylvania, between 1895 through about 1910. Both William, a retired merchant, and Louis, a cloth merchant, purchased several properties in Stuart between 1904 and 1907. Published in the Stuart News, 25th Historical Edition (9 Nov 1950).
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Couple in pineapple field, c. 1905
Couple in a pineapple field, Methodist Church in background. Lorena Maule McFarlan (1873-1962) and Louis Cass McFarlan (1850-1913).
William Dowling McFarlan Jr. (1836-1925), brother Robert M. McFarlan (1843–1914), and cousin Louis Cass McFarlan (1850-1913) and his wife Lorena Maule McFarlan (1873-1962) and young son were regular winter visitors to Stuart from their home in Pennsylvania, between 1895 through about 1910. Both William, a retired merchant, and Louis, a cloth merchant, purchased several properties in Stuart between 1904 and 1907.