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HISTORIC FLORIDA TOWNS & PLACES

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The Rutland Mule Matter Revisited

Sanibel Island Historical Society

January 20, 2026 at 7PM

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Visit my table at Book Fest on June 27, 2026

Lake County Historic Courthouse

Tavares, Florida

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CITRUSLAND, DC

An In-Person Presentation by Richard Cronin

The Only State Embassy in DC

The Florida House, Washington, DC

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While newspapers of the 1870s encouraged Americans to “Go West, Young Man, and Grow with your Nation,” in the South, vast stretches of Florida’s wilderness were being acquired by District of Columbians. The sweet aroma of the orange-blossom, it seems, had suddenly awakened what had been for decades a sleepy 27th State. The population of Florida, for example, ranked 33rd in 1870 among the then 37 States, and yet a Treasury Secretary of the United States, officials in the DC Bureau of Land Management, top Military Brass, prominent DC Attorneys, and even “DC Government Clerks,” all began investing in acreage in what was deemed the most difficult to reach region of the nation. Indeed, DC citizens of every status suddenly desired a piece of a sparsely inhabited land soon to be known as the “Sunshine State.”

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8:00 to 9:30AM April 28, 2026

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2026: The 250th Anniversary of the American Revolution

 

Below: The view from Florida House​​​​​​​​​​​​​​