European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1962, Darmstadt, Hesse                                A Ponce gave Thettye ? a flute he dose Yered it on t by  mowers y  army Psi defeat the indians in the Sam r of 28352. The ebc6tfc.knownfut Abraham Myers,61e,4ilam to. Distinction was that a Titi Toft was built in 3849, engaged to the daughter of his iding , not far from Cape canaveral named j because the Man Whit in 187s came from Melbourne Sli Petersburg was founded by a russian immigrant who named it frills Birthplace now called Leningrad. New Smyrna Beach Sot its name from Smyrna Greece it was Dri Ginajlo a Colony of greek fishermen to and Farmers. J to radians Are southerners in name  of a to five was b4orn in the state and nost of these Are concentrated in North Florida where they like to Call themselves  beginning with the pioneers who come Down the East coast in boats and Wagon sin the 1870s and 1880s, the spark that turned., the state from tropical wilderness into one of the Garden spots of the Contin ent came a rom Yankee  Golden key that opened up the Flor Ida East coast to development was the Railroad from Mirml there was onre a mangrove swamp. In 1912 an Inch Man named John Collins built wooden Bridge across to it and in 1915 an other Indiana Carl Fisher founder of the Indianapolis Speedway bought the swamp and started pumping Send into it. Today the former swamp is Miami Beach which in Bors one fourth of All the hotels i Florida. During the Florida real estate Boom which began in 1923 and lasted until the to enter of 192c-27, whole cities were Laid out. One of them was Coral Gables South West of Miami. Its founder and Developer was George Merrick a of Ohio who hired William Jennings Bryan to Ballyhoo the project with his Golden oratory. Merrick later founded and endowed the University of Miami Joseph w. Young of Pittsburgh spent $20million in the 1920s filling in a swamp North of Miami. He founded there the Cit Yot Hollywood. On the Southwest coast bar Ron Collier a new York advertising executive bought 2,000 Square Miles of the Ever Glades got the legislature to create col Lier county and Buitt Everglades City As his county seat. Few of Florida s Best known Trees an tit cd. Of Elie adj it Roie Sho Iid provide Beauty built this Pink Carillon tower"1 the  Are Otten on Cape Canave Iol Nome of the space up cat cmdr the stars and stripes