Floridaindustry


 * =  || With the introduction of the railroad the **production of citrus fruit** for export took a big step forward, as did the growing of other produce. In 1901 an old-timer said, "A few years ago, dwellers in the flatwoods laughed to scorn those who planted orange groves in the higher lands. As one expressed it, 'Those miserable old sandhills are good for nothing but to get lost in.' Patiently those pioneers kept at their work, too busy to listen to these croakings, and with too much faith in their own good judgment to be discouraged by them. Now the hills are dotted with dwellings and green with orange groves." It was only a few decades later that writer John McPhee noted, "It is the most intense concentration of citrus in the world," despite the fact that citrus production was at the mercy of occasional killing freezes. ||   ||
 * [[image:http://www.archbold-station.org/fai/buttons/top.jpg width="100" height="30" link="http://www.archbold-station.org/fai/activity.html"]] || **The land boom** of the mid-1920s saw salespeople lining the railroad station waiting for their prospects, extolling the virtues of Florida real estate. But the boom of 1925 turned into the bust of 1926. And the Great Depression followed soon after.
 * Tourism** had begun in the 1800s and steadily increased. By the turn of the century, the railroads were making Florida available to everyone. Florida continues to be one of the fastest growing states in the nation.||=  || The " iron horse" also boosted **other industries,** such as naval stores and hungry lumber mills. Resin was extracted from old growth longleaf pines and used to produce tar, pitch, turpentine, and rosin. Some trees still bear V-shaped scars where their trunks were tapped for turpentine-producing sap. Lumber mills flourished during the early part of the century. Rot-resistant and impervious to salt water, wood from longleaf pines has long been valued for boat building and housing construction. The longleaf pine forest never recovered. || ||
 * Tourism** had begun in the 1800s and steadily increased. By the turn of the century, the railroads were making Florida available to everyone. Florida continues to be one of the fastest growing states in the nation.||=  || The " iron horse" also boosted **other industries,** such as naval stores and hungry lumber mills. Resin was extracted from old growth longleaf pines and used to produce tar, pitch, turpentine, and rosin. Some trees still bear V-shaped scars where their trunks were tapped for turpentine-producing sap. Lumber mills flourished during the early part of the century. Rot-resistant and impervious to salt water, wood from longleaf pines has long been valued for boat building and housing construction. The longleaf pine forest never recovered. || ||