Palmetto House

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Primitive palmetto house in Sanford in the 1870s.

The earliest settlements in the Sanford area consisted of primitive construction materials, many homes were built with little more than palmetto fans and pine saplings. After the fire of 1887, many of the city's buildings were rebuilt with brick, to prevent the city from being any more suseptible to fire than it already had been.