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A History of Central Florida, Episode 25: Company Scrip
Tags: A History of Central Florida; Bass Road; Bethany Dickens; Bob Clarke; Chip Ford; commissaries; company scrips; company stores; currency; Daniel Velásquez; debt peonage; Disston City; Disston Land Company; Edge Mercantile Company; Ella Gibson; Elliott Edge; Great Railroad Strike; Great Railroad Strike of 1877; Great Upheaval; Great Upheaval of 1877; Groveland; Groveland Historical Museum; Hamilton Disston; Hazen, Kendra; Katie Kelley; Kendra Hazen; labor; labor strikes; Lake Avenue; Lake County; lumber; lumber mill; lumber mills; Mark Howard Long; Mark Long; money; OCRHC; Orange County Regional History Center; Osceola County; Osceola County Welcome Center and History Museum; Paul Ortiz; Riley, Groover and Company; Robert Cassanello; sharecropping; slavery; St. Cloud; Sumter County; turpentine
A History of Central Florida, Episode 23: Turpentine Industry
Tags: 1st Street; A History of Central Florida; American Civil War; Barbara Hines; Bob Clarke; Bush Boulevard; Charles Holmes Herty, Sr.; Chip Ford; Civil War; convict leasing; convicts; corrections; Daniel Velásquez; Edge Mercantile Company; Ella Gibson; First Street; Florida Historical Society; Florida Public Archaeology Network; Geneva; Herty cups; inmates; Katie Kelley; Kendra Hazen; labor; labor camps; laborers; Museum of Geneva History; Museum of Seminole County History; naval stores; Nick Wynne; OCRHC; Orange County Regional History Center; prison labor; prisoners; resin; Robert Cassanello; Sanford; Seminole County; turpentine; turpentine camps; Vick's Vapor Rub