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Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
1-page magazine article
Dublin Core
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Title
Rx for Lake Apopka
Alternative Title
Rx for Lake Apopka
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Fishing--Florida
Description
A newspaper article from <em>Florida Magazine</em>, republished by <em>The Orlando Sentinel</em>, discussing the restoration efforts for Lake Apopka. The article summarizes the past history of the lake as a sportfishing center and then discusses the fish kills of the 1960s. The article identifies the sources of pollution entering the lake as the citrus industry, sewage processing, farm discharge, septic drainfields, and natural sources entering through Gourd Neck Springs. The article then details the efforts to restore the lake by the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, formed by Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011), with C. W. Sheffield serving as chairman. Of note here is the article's summarization of the committee's restoration projects: improved treatment of sewage and citrus discharge, reducing nutrient inflow, isolation of the muck farms and treatment of farm discharge, isolation of the Gourd Neck Springs area to provide a basin to be used in mud consolidation experiments, improvement of fish habits in the lake through fish cribs and other methods, a lake drawdown to help consolidate the bottom mud, and creation of a shoreline buffer zone using trees and other vegetation.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopy of republished magazine article: Rider, Don. "Rx for Lake Apopka." <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Orlando Sentinel</em></a>, January 21, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of photocopied republished magazine article: Rider, Don. "Rx for Lake Apopka." <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Orlando Sentinel</em></a>, January 21, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Gourd Neck Springs, Florida
Creator
Rider, Don
Publisher
<a href="http://www.floridamagazine.org/" target="_blank"><em>Florida Magazine</em></a>
<a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Orlando Sentinel</em></a>
Date Created
ca. 1968-01-21
Date Issued
1968-01-21
Date Copyrighted
1968-01-21
Format
image/jpg
Extent
332 KB
Medium
1-page magazine article
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Geography Teacher
Science Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Don Rider and published by <a href="http://www.floridamagazine.org/" target="_blank"><em>Florida Magazine</em></a>.
Republished by <a href="http://www.orlandosentinel.com/" target="_blank"><em>The Orlando Sentinel</em></a>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by<a href="http://www.floridamagazine.org/" target="_blank"><em>Florida Magazine</em></a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
agricultural pollution
algae
aquatic vegetation
C. W. Sheffield
citrus processing industry
Claude R. Kirk, Jr.
Claude Roy Kirk, Jr.
eutrophication
fish camps
fish kills
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
Florida State Board of Health
FSBH
Gourd Neck Springs
hyacinths
Lake Apopka
Lake Apopka Technical Committee
levees
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
nutrient removal
Orange County Water Conservation Department
pesticides
sewage treatment plants
sportfishing
water quality
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Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
4-page typewritten memorandum
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Title
Memorandum from the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission to the Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission (June 13, 1968)
Alternative Title
Memo from Florida Game & Fish Commission to Florida Pollution Commission (June 13, 1968)
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Ocklawaha River (Fla.)
Lakes--Florida
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
A memorandum from the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission to the Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission. This memo discusses the history of pollution in the lakes at the headwaters of the Ocklawaha River basin, specifically Lake Dora, Lake Eustis, Lake Harris, Little Lake Harris, Lake Griffin, and Lake Apopka. The memo identifies the three sources of pollution into these lakes as citrus processing, sewage treatment outfall, and farm waste discharge. The memo outlines the monetary values of the sportfishing and commercial fishing industry on the lakes, as well as detailing the historical change in the makeup of fish populations. The memo also explores the increase in fish kill frequency in these lakes, before ending with a request to the commission for an increase in outreach efforts regarding water pollution.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopy of original 4-page typewritten memorandum from the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission to the Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission, June 13, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of photocopied 4-page typewritten memorandum from the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission to the Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission, June 13, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Lake Harris
Lake Eustis, Florida
Lake Dora, Florida
Lake Griffin, Florida
Date Created
1968-06-13
Format
application/pdf
Extent
789 KB
Medium
4-page typewritten memorandum
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Science Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
\ improved breams
agricultural pollution
algae
American Fisheries Society
American gizzard shads
aquatic vegetation
Beauclair
black crappies
bluegills
cherry gills
chinquapins
citrus processing industry
Eustis
fish camps
fish kills
fish meal
Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
garfish
Georgia breams
green algae
hyacinths
Lake Apopka
Lake Carlton
Lake Dora
Lake Eustis
Lake Griffin
Lake Harris
lakes
largemouth bass
Leesburg
Lepomis microlophus
levees
Little Lake Harris
Mount Dora
Mt. Dora
nutrient removal
Ocklawaha River
pesticides
redear sunfish
rouge ear sunfish
seining
sewage treatment plants
shellcrackers
sport fishing
sun perch
sun perches
water quality
Winter Garden
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Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
5-page typewritten document
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Title
Leesburg Committee Conclusions
Alternative Title
Leesburg Committee Conclusions
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
A document outlining the conclusions from meeting of the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, held in Leesburg, Florida, circa June 1968. The committee was formed by Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011) in 1967 to study and implement a restoration plan for Lake Apopka. C. W. Sheffield served as chairman of the committee. This committee meeting was held as a review of the project. This document thus examines the works completed by the committee as of June 1968. Additionally, it identifies outside projects related to the committee's goals of restoration, such as plans for nutrient removal systems by the Winter Garden Citrus Cooperative. This document also lists recommendations for the committee going forward, both general and specific.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopy of original 5-page typewritten document, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of photocopied 5-page typewritten document, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Tavares, Florida
Leesburg, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Date Created
ca. 1968-06
Format
application/pdf
Extent
920 KB
Medium
5-page typewritten document
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Science Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
agricultural pollution
algae
aquatic vegetation
C. W. Sheffield
citrus processing industry
Claude Kirk
Claude R. Kirk, Jr.
East Central Florida Regional Planning Council
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
fish meal
Florida Air & Water Pollution Control Commission
Florida Department of Agriculture
Florida Development Commission
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
Florida Park Commission
Florida State Board of Health
FSBH
FWPCA
Gourd Neck Spring
hyacinths
Lake Apopka
Lake Apopka Technical Committee
levees
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
nutrient removal
Ocklawaha River Basin Planning Grant
Orange County Board of County Commissioners
Orange County Water Conservation Department
pesticides
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
water quality
Winter Garden Citrus Products Cooperative
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Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
1-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Dublin Core
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Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (August 26 to 30, 1968)
Alternative Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Report
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Pesticides--United States
Description
A weekly report of the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, chaired by C. W. Sheffield. The committee was an initiative by Governor Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011) to investigate pollution and possible restoration of Lake Apopka, launched in 1967. This report discusses arrangements for a committee meeting planned for September 4, 1968. Additionally, the report notes the completion of the muck farm nutrient removal pilot project. Samples were obtained from the project, which consisted of alternating hyacinth and algae ponds, each with a 2 and a half day retention time. The data from this project will be used for a grant application from the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration (FWPCA). Finally, the various other research projects continued as scheduled.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopy of original 1-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, August 30, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 1-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, August 30, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Creator
Sheffield, C. W.
Date Created
1968-08-30
Format
image/jpg
Extent
233 KB
Medium
1-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by C. W. Sheffield.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair
agricultural pollution
algae
aquatic vegetation
Arthur W. Sinclair
C. W. Sheffield
Cliff R. Freeman
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
FWPCA
hyacinths
Kenneth A. Plante
Lake Apopka
Lake Apopka Technical Committee
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
nutrient removal
Paul E. Pickett
pesticides
Robert Elrod
Sanford Padgett
Vincent D. Patton
water quality
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Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
1-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Dublin Core
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Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (July 15 to 19, 1968)
Alternative Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Report
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Pesticides--United States
Description
A weekly report of the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, chaired by C. W. Sheffield. The committee was an initiative by Governor Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011) to investigate pollution and possible restoration of Lake Apopka, launched in 1967. This report discusses a review of the committee's aquatic weed research program with Dr. Robert O'Brien; a review of the University of Florida's Hyacinth Nutrient Removal Program, as well as discussion of a proposed Lakes and Streams Pollution Conference to be held at UF; and discussion of the various research projects being undertaken by the committee, including the silt drying experiments.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopy of original 1-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, July 19, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 1-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, July 19, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida
Creator
Sheffield, C. W.
Date Created
1968-07-19
Format
image/jpg
Extent
233 KB
Medium
1-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by C. W. Sheffield.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair
agricultural pollution
algae
aquatic vegetation
Arthur W. Sinclair
C. W. Sheffield
Cliff R. Freeman
hyacinths
Kenneth A. Plante
Lake Apopka
Lake Apopka Technical Committee
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
nutrient removal
Paul E. Pickett
pesticides
Robert Elrod
Robert O'Brien
Rollins College
Sanford Padgett
UF
University of Florida
Vincent D. Patton
water quality
-
https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/aea04d0683a6342521a8bf6ac06868b1.pdf
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (June 24 to 28, 1968)
Alternative Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Report
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
A weekly report of the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, chaired by C. W. Sheffield. The committee was an initiative by Governor Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011) to investigate pollution and possible restoration of Lake Apopka, launched in 1967. This report discusses the selection of a site for the pilot nutrient removal project on the Zellwood farmlands. The site chosen was on the Clounts farm, near Hooper Farms Road. The report further discusses the construction of this site. Additionally, the report discusses the rejection of a proposed budget by the Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission, which felt it was unable to provide the financial assistance requested. The report also discusses a review of aquatic weed research being conducted in Lake Virginia, to study hydrilla. Finally, the report discusses a meeting held to discuss a proposed comprehensive basin grant from the Federal Water Pollution Control Administration (FWPCA). The East Central Florida Regional Planning Council agreed to apply for this grant.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopy of original 2-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, June 28, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 2-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, June 28, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Creator
Sheffield, C. W.
Date Created
1968-06-28
Format
application/pdf
Extent
387 KB
Medium
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by C. W. Sheffield.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair
agricultural pollution
algae
aquatic vegetation
Arch Hodges
Arthur W. Sinclair
C. W. Sheffield
Cliff R. Freeman
East Central Florida Regional Planning Council
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration
Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission
FWPCA
Gordon Wagner
Hooper Farms Road
Hugh Putnam
hyacinths
hydrilla
John White
Kenneth A. Plante
Lake Apopka
Lake Apopka Technical Committee
Lake Virginia
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
nutrient removal
Orange County Water Conservation Department
Paul E. Pickett
pesticides
Ray Kaleel
Robert Elrod
Sanford Padgett
Vincent D. Patton
water quality
Winter Park Lakes and Waterways Board
Zellwood Drainage District
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https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/94332899537fafefe4b243b9dec033d1.pdf
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (June 17 to 21, 1968)
Alternative Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Report
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
A weekly report of the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, chaired by C. W. Sheffield. The committee was an initiative by Governor Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011) to investigate pollution and possible restoration of Lake Apopka, launched in 1967. This report lists the various research projects being undertaken by the committee during the summer of 1968. This research includes nutrient leaching from citrus groves, nutrients in rainwater, updated biological sampling, silt-drying techniques, construction of a nutrient removal pilot plant on the North Shore farmlands, flocculation and aeration of silt, aquatic plants, dredging, and expanded sampling of farm discharge. These projects are being constructed with the help of students from various colleges. Additionally, the report discusses the attendance by the chairman of the Hyacinth Control Society's annual meeting.
Type
Text
Source
Original 2-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, June 21, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 2-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, June 21, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Creator
Sheffield, C. W.
Date Created
1968-06-21
Format
application/pdf
Extent
326 KB
Medium
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Science Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by C. W. Sheffield.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair
agricultural pollution
algae
aquatic vegetation
Arthur W. Sinclair
C. W. Sheffield
Cliff R. Freeman
dredging
Florida State Board of Health
FSBH
Hyacinth Control Society
hyacinths
Kenneth A. Plante
Lake Apopka
Lake Apopka Technical Committee
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
nutrient removal
Orange County Water Department
Paul E. Pickett
pesticides
Ray Kaleel
Robert Elrod
Sanford Padgett
sewage treatment plants
silts
Vincent D. Patton
water quality
-
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (April 29 to May 3, 1968)
Alternative Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Report
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
A weekly report of the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, chaired by C. W. Sheffield. The committee was an initiative by Governor Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011) to investigate pollution and possible restoration of Lake Apopka, launched in 1967. This report discusses a subcommittee meeting to examine levee sizes for a potential isolation pond; a review of the project by Orange County Commissioner Paul E. Pickett, after which it was decided the project would be officially sanctioned by the Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission, giving the Lake Apopka Restoration Project a permanent status; general review of the committee's research projects; and plans for a meeting with the Federal Air and Water Pollution Control Commission on May 3, 1968.
Type
Text
Source
Original 2-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, May 3, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of 2-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, May 3, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Creator
Sheffield, C. W.
Date Created
1968-05-03
Format
application/pdf
Extent
327 KB
Medium
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by C. W. Sheffield.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
agricultural pollution
algae
aquatic vegetation
C. W. Sheffield
dikes
Federal Air and Water Pollution Control Commission
Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission
Florida State Board of Health
FSBH
hyacinths
Jim Sayes
Lake Apopka
Lake Apopka Technical Committee
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
Nat Reed
Nathaniel Reed
nutrient removal
Orange County Board of County Commissioners
Paul E. Pickett
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Vincent D. Patton
water quality
Zellwood Drainage District
Zellwood Farms
-
https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka/files/original/9f3eb4301136139352b92972f28528bf.pdf
53a389ca914af6b3e40ca09bfbc6215c
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (April 22 to 26, 1968)
Alternative Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Report
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
A weekly report of the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, chaired by C. W. Sheffield. The committee was an initiative by Governor Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011) to investigate pollution and possible restoration of Lake Apopka, launched in 1967. This report discusses a meeting between the chairman and the Kissimmee Rotary Club to discuss the Lake Apopka project; a review of the project by Hugh Putnam, an engineering consultant hired by the Zellwood Drainage District to represent the farming interests; plans to construct nutrient removal plants at various of the Zellwood District's pumping stations; plans to meet with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (CoE) to discuss the proposed isolation levee; fixing of the High Volume Air Sampler; a review of the project by Earl Kelly, an agricultural agent from Lake County; and plans to hold a committee meeting on May 1, 1968.
Type
Text
Source
Original 2-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, April 26, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 2-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, April 26, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Kissimmee, Florida
Creator
Sheffield, C. W.
Date Created
1968-04-26
Format
application/pdf
Extent
372 KB
Medium
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by C. W. Sheffield.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair
agricultural pollution
algae
aquatic vegetation
Arthur W. Sinclair
C. W. Sheffield
Cliff R. Freeman
dikes
Earl Kelly
Florida State Board of Health
FSBH
Hugh Putnam
hyacinths
Kissimmee Rotary Club
Lake Apopka
Lake Apopka Technical Committee
Lake Toho
Lake Tohopekaliga
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
Nat Reed
Nathaniel Reed
nutrient removal
Orange County Board of County Commissioners
Paul E. Pickett
Reynolds, Smith and Hill
Robert Elrod
Sanford Padgett
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Vincent D. Patton
water quality
West Lake
Zellwood Drainage District
-
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7e9a71eede092fa6b278187a039ac5f6
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Dublin Core
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Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (March 25 to 30, 1968)
Alternative Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Report
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
A weekly report of the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, chaired by C. W. Sheffield. The committee was an initiative by Governor Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011) to investigate pollution and possible restoration of Lake Apopka, launched in 1967. This report states that the flyover of Lake Apopka, mentioned in the previous week's report, was cancelled. The chairman attended a meeting on aquatic weeds in Winter Park. The report also discusses a fish kill observed in the Apopka-Beauclair Canal on March 30, 1968.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopied 2-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, March 30, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
References
"Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (March 18 to 22, 1968)." RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 2-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, March 30, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Creator
Sheffield, C. W.
Date Created
1968-03-30
Format
application/pdf
Extent
390 KB
Medium
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by C. W. Sheffield.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
Transcript
LAKE APOPKA TECHNICAL COMMITTEE
STATE OF FLORIDA
OFFICE OF THE GOVERNOR
TALLAHASSEE
<GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA>
LAKE APOPKA WEEKLY REPORT C.W. SHEFFIELD
<IN GOD WE TRUST>
3/25/68
3/30/68
CHAIRMAN
CLAUDE R. KIRK, JR.
GOVERNOR
<Jill>
<pg 1 left margin>
S.A. Berkowitz
F.S.B.H.
Dale Twatchman
S.W.F.W.M.D.
Howard Young
Lake Co. Water
Authority
Earl Frye
F.G.F.W.F.C.
J. Koperski
Corps. of Eng.
J. Thoman
F.W.F.C.A.
A.A. Marshall
Bureau of Sports
Fisheries
Doyle Golden
F.D.A.
V.D. Patton
F.A.W.P.C.C.
Gordon Wagner
E.C.F.R.P.C.
Don Greer
Orange County
Planning Office
Bob Webb
Lake County
Planning Office
Arch Hodges
Zellwood Drainage
District
L.J. Snell
U.S.G.S.
Prof. Furman
U of Fla.
The summary report of Lake Apopka Restoration project aims, possible solution to problems, work completed by committee and antisipated [sic] cost of project was completed by chairman. This was sent to various committee members for their comments prior to final typing and presentation to Florida Air Water Pollution Control Commission. Mr. Patton called at approximately 8:00 AM 3/25/68 to inform the chairman the Governor would be unable to make the brief reviewal [sic] of the lake that afternoon. He indicated said reviewal [sic] would be set up at another date. This worked out for the best based on the fact the summary report should be completed by committee members in approximately 2 to 3 weeks. Then the chairman will be in a better position to give a complete report on the projects progress. The chairman attended an aquatic weed meeting held by Winter Park 3/27/68. This meeting was very informative and it is antisipated [sic] a summer research project will be enacted with various cities in Orlando area, also Federal, State, and local agencies envolved [sic] in weed or water pollution work. The data from this research work will prove to be very useful for finding an aquatic weed which might provide beneficial growth in Lake Apopka.
The Lake Apopka work force checked various research projects within Lake Apopka on 3/28/68 and found all to be in working order. The Hi vol Air sampler located at base camp was put back into operation. (motor repaired was out about 2 weeks).
On Friday the chairman sent Mr. Patton (FAWPCC) copies of all weekly memo, reports and other pertanent [sic] information on the Lake Apopka project for his files. The Lake Apopka work force made preparations for obtaining the Oklawaha Chain of Lake samples 4/1/68. These samples will be obtained with assistance of
<GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE OF FLORIDA
IN GOD WE TRUST>
CLAUDE R. KIRK, JR.
GOVERNOR
Florida Game Fresh Water Fish Commission and the Orange County Water Conservation Department boats and motors. In this manner all lake, stream, and canal samples can be obtained in one day.
On Saturday 3/30/68 chairman received report from Mr. John Lundquist (Fisherman paradise fish camp) that fish were dying in the Lake Apopka Beauclair [?] Canal. The Lake Apopka work force obtain [sic] chemical, pesticide, fish and physical samples on 3.30/68 to determine extent and cause of kill. From the field reviewal it was indicated only small shad and catfish were dead and very few fish were sighted dead in canal. (One dying fish was observed and obtained for lab tests). The samples will be analized [sic] and a report will follow.
agricultural pollution
algae
Apopka-Beauclair Canal
aquatic vegetation
C. W. Sheffield
Claude R. Kirk, Jr.
Claude Roy Kirk, Jr.
dikes
fish kills
Fisherman's Paradise Fish Camp
Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
hyacinths
John Lundquist
Lake Apopka
Lake Apopka Technical Committee
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
nutrient removal
Orange County Water Conservation Department
pesticides
Vincent D. Patton
water quality
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Dublin Core
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Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (March 18 to 22, 1968)
Alternative Title
Lake Apopka Restoration Project Report
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
A weekly report of the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, chaired by C. W. Sheffield. The committee was an initiative by Governor Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011) to investigate pollution and possible restoration of Lake Apopka, launched in 1967. This report discusses meetings between Chairman Sheffield and Professor Thomas Furman, discussing experimental nutrient removal facilities and future research projects; a meeting with Dr. Robert O'Brien of Rollins College, discussing aquatic weed growth, in hopes of finding a potential candidate for lake-bottom plantings; requests sent to various state and federal organizations seeking suggestions for projects to be carried out that summer; a meeting with K. K. Huffstutler to discuss potential levee sizes for an isolation dike to separate the muck farms from the lake; a demonstration of a hyacinth processing machine made by the Hiller Company, at which Governor Kirk and various committee members were present; and plans for a future flyover of the lake by the Governor.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopied 3-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, March 22, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Referenced By
"Lake Apopka Restoration Project Weekly Report (March 25 to 30, 1968)." RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 3-page typewritten report by C. W. Sheffield, March 22, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Creator
Sheffield, C. W.
Date Created
1968-03-22
Format
application/pdf
Extent
653 KB
Medium
2-page typewritten report on Lake Apopka Technical Committee letterhead
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by C. W. Sheffield.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
A. W. Sinclair, Jimmie Sinclair
agricultural pollution
algae
Aquatic Research & Development Committee
aquatic vegetation
Arthur W. Sinclair
Bill Woods
Bob Blackburn
Bureau of Sports Fisheries
C. W. Sheffield
Claude R. Kirk, Jr.
Claude Roy Kirk, Jr.
Cliff R. Freeman
dikes
Florida Air and Water Pollution Control Commission
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
Florida State Board of Health
FSBH
Hiller Company
hyacinths
James NeSmith
K. K. Huffstutler
Lake Apopka
Lake Apopka Technical Committee
Lake County Water Authority
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
nutrient removal
Orange County Water Control Department
Paul E. Pickett
Ray Clock
Robert Elrod
Robert O'Brien
Rollins College
Sanford Padgett
sewage treatment plants
Thomas Furman
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
U.S. Department of Agriculture
U.S. Geological Survey
UF
United States Department of Agriculture
University of Florida
USDA
Vincent D. Patton
water quality
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Dublin Core
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Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
1-page typewritten letter
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Letter from Arthur W. Sinclair to the Hyacinth Control Society, Inc. (November 16, 1967)
Alternative Title
Letter from Sinclair to Hyacinth Control Society (November 16, 1967)
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Winter Garden (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Description
A letter from Arthur W. Sinclair, executive manager of the Winter Garden Chamber of Commerce, to the Hyacinth Control Society, Inc., requesting information on herbicides to be used on hyacinth and other aquatic plants along the shores of Lake Apopka in Winter Garden, Florida. The water hyacinth is an invasive species, introduced to America in 1884, that quickly overwhelms native life in freshwater lakes.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopy of original typewritten letter from Arthur W. Sinclair to the Hyacinth Control Society, Inc., November 16, 1967: binder 1967, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Is Part Of
Binder 1967, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of photocopied letter from Arthur W. Sinclair to the Hyacinth Control Society, Inc., November 16, 1967.
Coverage
Winter Garden, Florida
Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Lake Apopka, Florida
Creator
Sinclair, Arthur W.
Date Created
1967-11-16
Format
image/jpg
Extent
156 KB
Medium
1-page typewritten letter
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Arthur W. Sinclair.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatics/waterhyacinth.shtml" target="_blank">Water Hyacinth</a>." National Invasive Species Information Center. March 20, 2015. Accessed August 29, 2015. http://www.invasivespeciesinfo.gov/aquatics/waterhyacinth.shtml.
A. W. Sinclair
aquatic vegetation
Arthur W. Sinclair
CoE
Florida Game and Freshwater Fish Commission
Florida State Board of Health
FSBH
herbicides
Hyacinth Control Society, Inc.
hyacinths
Jimmie Sinclair
Lake Apopka
Lake Apopka Restoration Commission
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
water quality
weeds
Winter Garden
Winter Garden Chamber of Commerce
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
4-page newsletter
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
F.I.S.H. Tales, March 1966
Alternative Title
F.I.S.H. Tales
Subject
Water quality--Florida
Fishing--Florida
Tsala Apopka Lake (Fla.)
Withlacoochee River Watershed (Fla.)
Pollution--Florida
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Description
The March 1966 edition of <em>F.I.S.H. Tales</em>, a newsletter for the Florida Inland Sportsfishing Hosts. The newsletter covers various topics regarding Central Florida fisheries. Topics discussed include a new fish hatchery, seining programs in Lake Tsala Apopka and Lake Dora, and catch limits for panfish. There is also discussion of pollution problems in Lake Apopka, and Governor W. Haydon Burns' (1912-1987) pledge to find a solution. Also mentioned in this bulletin is the current presence of bass in Lake Apopka, as evidenced by Don McAllister's fishing show, <em>Going Fishing</em>.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopied four-page newsletter: <em>F.I.S.H. Tales</em>, March 1966: binder 1966, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Requires
<a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/reader.html" target="_blank">Adobe Acrobat Reader</a>
Is Part Of
Binder 1966, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of photocopied four-page newsletter: <em>F.I.S.H. Tales</em>, March 1966.
Coverage
Tavares, Florida
Lake Tsala Apopka, Florida
Lake Dora, Florida
Lake Apopka, Florida Lake Francis, Apopka, Florida
Lake Griffin, Florida
Publisher
<em>F.I.S.H. Tales</em>
Date Created
ca. 1966-03
Date Issued
ca. 1966-03
Date Copyrighted
ca. 1966-03
Format
application/pdf
Extent
868 KB
Medium
4-page newsletter
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by <em>F.I.S.H. Tales</em>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
agricultural pollution
Art Hutt
Bob Aldrich
catch limits
Central Fisheries Research Laboratory
Chick Archer
Daniel McCrea
detergent pollution
Don McAllister
Elvis Lane
eutrophication
F.I.S.H. Tales
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
Florida Inland Sportsfishing Hosts
gizzard shads
Glenn R. Hull
hyacinths
Jack Rigsby
Lake Apopka
Lake Dora
lakes
Mike Griffin
Nalco Chemical Company
nutria
Phil Phillippy
Richloam Hatchery
rotenone
seining
soft soaps
sportfishing
Tsala Apopka Lake
W. Haydon Burns
water
water quality
William Haydon Burns
Withlacoochee River
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Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
1 newspaper article
Dublin Core
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Title
At Last—Cure for Lake Apopka
Alternative Title
Cure for Lake Apopka
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Apopka (Fla.)
Hyacinths
Description
A newspaper article discussing progress made on Lake Apopka restoration plans. The article praises Florida Governor Claude R. Kirk, Jr. (1926-2011) and C. W. Sheffield, chairman of the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, for their efforts to address pollution in Lake Apopka.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopy of original newspaper article: "At Last—Cure for Lake Apopka." <em>The Winter Garden Times</em>, June 7, 1967: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of photocopied newspaper article: "At Last—Cure for Lake Apopka." <em>The Winter Garden Times</em>, June 7, 1967.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Apopka, Florida
Date Created
ca. 1967-06-07
Date Issued
1967-06-07
Date Copyrighted
1967-06-07
Format
image/jpg
Extent
270 KB
Medium
1 newspaper article
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
Transcript
At Last – Cure For Lake Apopka
AT LONG LAST we’ve got a do-something program on Lake Apopka.
Ever since the hyacinth kill showed up the truth, that the once great fishing attraction, 31,000-acres big, was fast sliding down-hill, we’ve been subjected to nothing but pessimistic talk.
Last season was worst of all, when the State Board of Health and Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission trotted out that $2 word, “eutrophication”, and applied it to our lake with a helpless, palm-up toss of the hand.
That fancy word was supposed to mean the lake is dying of old age, and the application seemed to say, “Don’t bother us because there isn’t a thing you can do about it.”
A lot of us just didn’t care for that answer and thank goodness Gov. Claude Kirk has his action reputation staked on proving something can be done.
C.W. (Mickey) Sheffield, a young Orange County employe, a biologist with a couple of degrees and an eye to opportunity, was tapped for chairman of the governor’s technical committee for improving Lake Apopka.
Kirk and Sheffield are two me who want to prove something, get out of the rut and do bigger and better things.
The preliminary ideas Sheffield unfolded on Tuesday’s Sentinel make for an action program, daring and imaginative.
Unproved, yes. But nobody else, after years of opportunity, has come up with anything akin to, nor as credible as what we’ll call the Sheffield Plan.
We say to Mick Sheffield, more power to you. You’ve made a good start. Keep right on running.
We say to Gov. Kirk, please stay behind this Apopka project. We think success in combatting pollution here is vital to the whole state.
You picked a tough pilot project, but if men such as Sheffield can show fast progress on this job you will win many friends.
Apopka
C. W. Sheffield
Claude R. Kirk, Jr.
Claude Roy Kirk, Jr.
eutrophication
fishing
Florida Board of Health
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission
hyacinths
Lake Apopka
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
Sheffield Plan
water quality
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Dublin Core
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Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
1-page typewritten letter
Dublin Core
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Title
Letter from Edward A. Zagar to J. W. Woods (April 15, 1968)
Alternative Title
Letter from Zagar to Woods (April 15, 1968)
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Description
A letter from Edward A. Zagar, fisheries biologist with the Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, to J. W. Woods, Director of Fisheries for the commission. The letter discusses a survey of Lake Apopka and Lake Griffin by Zagar and others, looking for hyacinth. The water hyacinth is an invasive aquatic plant, first introduced to the United States in 1884 at the World's Fair in New Orleans, Louisiana. A visitor from Florida returned with samples of the plant, which were then introduced to the St Johns River. The water hyacinth grows extremely rapidly, choking waterways, preventing navigation, and clogging flood control structures. Methods of hyacinth control include chemical spraying, mechanical harvesting, and hand removal. In this letter, Zagar claims no concentrations of hyacinth large enough for spraying were found in either lake. At this time, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (CoE) was responsible for hyacinth control.
Type
Text
Source
Original 1-page typewritten letter from Edward A. Zagar to J. W. Woods, April 15, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 1-page typewritten letter from Edward A. Zagar to J. W. Woods, April 15, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Lake Griffin, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Gourd Neck, Florida
Creator
Zagar, Edward A.
Date Created
ca. 1968-04-15
Format
image/jpg
Extent
114 KB
Medium
1-page typewritten letter
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Provenance
Originally created by Edward A. Zagar.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"Non-Native Invasive Freshwater Plants." State of Washington Department of Ecology. Accessed September 25, 2015.
A. W. Sinclair
aquatic vegetation
Arthur W. Sinclair
C. W. Sheffield
Chuck Zeiger
Delon Kane
Edward A. Zagar
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
Gourd Neck Springs
herbicides
hyacinths
invasive species
Ivan Modesitt
J. W. Woods
Jimmie Sinclair
Lake Apopka
Lake Griffin
Lakeside Cottages
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
Mike Johnson
Orange County Water Conservation Department
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
water quality
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Dublin Core
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Title
Friends of Lake Apopka Collection
Alternative Title
FOLA Collection
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Description
The Friends of Lake Apopka (FOLA) is a citizen advocacy group with the mission of restoring Lake Apopka in Orange County and Lake County, Florida. Due to poor farming practices along its shores, Lake Apopka has become one of the largest polluted lakes in Florida. This collection features various archival items related to the restoration of the lake.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Florida Game and Fresh Water Commission, Tallahassee, Florida
Oakland, Florida
Orlando, Florida
Saint Johns River, Florida
Winter Garden, Florida
Winter Haven, Florida
Zellwood, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Our Mission & Purpose</a>." Friends of Lake Apopka. http://www.fola.org/.
Document
A resource containing textual data. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre text.
Original Format
1 newspaper article
Dublin Core
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Title
Profile of Bottom Completed: L. Apopka Study Continues
Alternative Title
Lake Apopka Study Continues
Subject
Lake Apopka (Fla.)
Water quality--Florida
Sewage disposal--Florida
Fishing--Florida
Pollution--Florida
Pesticides--United States
Description
A newspaper article from <em>The Winter Garden Times</em> discussing progress made on Lake Apopka restoration plans. According to the article, the bottom survey of the lake was continuing as planned, as well as the water quality sampling. The article also discusses experiments being carried out by Dr. Thomas Furman and Professor Kiker of the University of Florida (UF), examining the potential of water hyacinth in removing nutrients from water. A similar experimental pond using algae is being constructed at the Pine Hills sewage treatment plant. The article also notes requests made by C. W. Sheffield, chairman of the Lake Apopka Technical Committee, for further studies of seining in the lake.
Type
Text
Source
Photocopy of original newspaper article: "Lake Apopka Study Continues." <em>The Winter Garden Times</em>, January 25, 1968: binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
Is Part Of
Binder 1968, Friends of Lake Apopka Archives, Ginn Museum, <a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>, Oakland, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/153" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka Collection</a>, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of photocopied newspaper article: "Lake Apopka Study Continues." <em>The Winter Garden Times</em>, January 25, 1968.
Coverage
Lake Apopka, Florida
Pine Hills, Florida, Florida
Publisher
<em>The Winter Garden Times</em>
Date Created
ca. 1968-01-25
Date Issued
1968-01-25
Date Copyrighted
1968-01-25
Format
image/jpg
Extent
270 KB
Medium
1 newspaper article
Language
eng
Mediator
History Teacher
Civics/Government Teacher
Provenance
Originally published by <em>The Winter Garden Times</em>.
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a> and is provided here by <a href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Accrual Method
Donation
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.fola.org/" target="_blank">Friends of Lake Apopka</a>
Curator
King, Joshua
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a href="http://www.oaktownusa.com/Pages/Preserve/index" target="_blank">Oakland Nature Preserve</a>
External Reference
"<a href="http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/" target="_blank">Learn About Your Watershed: Ocklawaha River Watershed</a>." Florida's Water: Ours to Protect, Florida Department of Environmental Protection. Accessed June 12, 2015. http://www.protectingourwater.org/watersheds/map/ocklawaha/.
agricultural pollution
C. W. Sheffield
Federal Water Pollution Control Administration, FWPCA
fish cribs
Florida Game and Fresh Water Fish Commission
hyacinths
Lake Apopka
Mick Sheffield
Mickey Sheffield
Orange County Commission
Orange County Commissioners
pesticides
sewage treatment
sonar
Thomas Furman
water quality
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Title
Seminole County Collection
Alternative Title
Seminole County Collection
Subject
Seminole County (Fla.)
Altamonte Springs (Fla.)
Casselberry (Fla.)
Goldenrod (Fla.)
Heathrow (Fla.)
Lake Mary (Fla.)
Longwood (Fla.)
Oviedo (Fla.)
Sanford (Fla.)
Winter Springs (Fla.)
Description
Collection of digital images, documents, and other records depicting the history of Seminole County, Florida. Series descriptions are based on special topics, the majority of which students focused their metadata entries around.
Mosquito County, a massive county south of St. Johns County that consisted of much of Central Florida was established in 1824. In 1845, Mosquito County was renamed Orange County when Florida earned statehood. This new county included present-day Osceola County, Seminole County, Lake County, and Volusia County. Orange County was named so for the area's major fruit crop: oranges. The area was devastated by a freeze during the winter of 1895-1896, which allowed for subsequent land speculators to initiate a land boom in Florida, with Orlando becoming a "boom town."
Seminole County separated from Orange on April 25, 1913, and was named for the Seminole tribes that originally inhabited the area. In the early-1900s, Seminole County was known for its agricultural development and close proximity to shipping lanes. By the 1920s, citizens in Seminole County, particularly in Sanford, soon shifted their interests in making the area a tourist destination.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Contributor
<a href="http://www.cfmemory.org/" target="_blank">Central Florida Memory</a>
Cepero, Laura Lynn
Cepero, Nancy Lynn
<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>
<a href="http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.aspx?page=456" target="_blank">Sanford Museum</a>
Has Part
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/118" target="_blank">Altamonte Springs Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/117" target="_blank">Casselberry Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/54" target="_blank">Geneva Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/55" target="_blank">Geneva Historical & Genealogical Society Collection</a>, Geneva Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/56" target="_blank">Goldenrod Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/57" target="_blank">Goldenrod Historical Society & Museum Collection</a>, Goldenrod Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/129" target="_blank">Heathrow Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/119" target="_blank">Lake Mary Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/43" target="_blank">Longwood Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/128" target="_blank">Oviedo Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/147" target="_blank">Oviedo Historical Society Collection</a>, Oviedo Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/16" target="_blank">Sanford Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/82" target="_blank"><em>Celery Soup: Florida's Folk Life Play</em> Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/65" target="_blank">Churches of Sanford Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/131" target="_blank">Creative Sanford, Inc. Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/41" target="_blank">Georgetown Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/78" target="_blank">Marie J. Francis Collection</a>, Georgetown Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/101" target="_blank">Sanford Avenue Collection</a>, Georgetown Collection, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/79" target="_blank">Goldsboro Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/116" target="_blank">Henry L. DeForest Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/12" target="_blank">Hotel Forrest Lake Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/14" target="_blank">Ice Houses of Sanford Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/42" target="_blank">Milane Theatre Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/13" target="_blank">Naval Air Station Sanford Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/15" target="_blank">Sanford Baseball Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/61" target="_blank">Sanford Cigar Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/10" target="_blank">Sanford Riverfront Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/11" target="_blank">Sanford State Farmers' Market Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/30" target="_blank">Seminole County Centennial Celebration Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/31" target="_blank">Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/32" target="_blank">General Photographic Collection</a>, Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/73" target="_blank">Seminole County Public Schools Collection</a>, Student Museum and UCF Public History Center Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/125" target="_blank">Winter Springs Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a>.
Coverage
Seminole County, Florida
Altamonte Springs, Florida
Casselberry, Florida
Goldenrod, Florida
Heathrow, Florida
Lake Mary, Florida
Longwood , Florida
Oviedo, Florida
Sanford, Florida
Winter Springs, Florida
Contributing Project
<a href="http://www.cfmemory.org/" target="_blank">Central Florida Memory</a>
Curator
Cepero, Laura
External Reference
Bentley, Altermese Smith. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/45705201" target="_blank"><em>Seminole County</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2000.
"<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/index.aspx" target="_blank">Seminole County Government </a>." Seminole County Government. http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/index.aspx.
<a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52607030" target="_blank"><em>Early Days of Seminole County, Florida: Where Central Florida History Began</em></a>. [Sanford, Fla.]: Seminole County Historical Commission, 2002.
Oral History
A resource containing historical information obtained in interviews with persons having firsthand knowledge.
Interviewer
Motta, Daniel
Interviewee
Martin, Bobby
Location
<a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a><span>, Sanford, Florida.</span>
Bit Rate/Frequency
1441kbps
Dublin Core
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Title
Oral History of Bobby Martin
Alternative Title
Oral History, Martin
Subject
Longwood (Fla.)
Fishing--Florida
Sanford (Fla.)
Lake Jesup (Fla.)
Lake Monroe (Seminole County and Volusia County, Fla.)
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An oral history of Bobby Martin (b. 1944), conducted by Daniel Motta on June 13, 2012. Martin was born in Tampa, Florida, in 1944, but spent much of his life as a commercial fisherman on Lake Jesup and Lake Monroe. In the interview, Martin discusses growing up in Longwood, serving in the military during the Vietnam War, the commercial fishing industry, the relationship between fishermen, fishing methods, catfish farming and the decline of the wild commercial fishing industry, leaving the fishing industry, and the dangers of fishing.
Table Of Contents
0:00:00 Introduction
0:00:48 Growing up in Longwood
0:02:23 Serving in the Vietnam War
0:03:15 Commercial fishing industry
0:08:05 Relationship between fishermen
0:11:48 Typical day fishing
0:15:19 Fishing methods
0:32:51 Catfish farming and the decline of the wild commercial fishing industry
0:34:26 Fishing territory
0:35:30 Leaving the fishing industry and pollution
0:40:31 Dangers of fishing
0:46:46 RECORDING CUTS OFF
0:46:46 Fishing injuries
0:53:11 Stingrays and eels in Lake Jesup and Lake Monroe
0:56:41 Favorite aspect of fishing
0:58:51 Closing remarks
Abstract
Oral history interview of Bobby Martin. Interview conducted by Daniel Motta at the <a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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Original 59-minute and 36-second oral history: Martin, Bobby. Interviewed by Daniel Motta. June 13, 2012. <a href="http://www.seminolecountyfl.gov/departments-services/leisure-services/parks-recreation/museum-of-seminole-county-history/" target="_blank">Museum of Seminole County History</a>, Sanford, Florida.
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Motta, Daniel
Martin, Bobby
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59-minute and 36-second audio recording
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External Reference
Belleville, Bill. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/41503194" target="_blank"><em>River of Lakes: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River</em></a>. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 2000.
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
"<a href="http://www.monroeharbour.com/" target="_blank">Monroe Harbour Marina</a>." Monroe Harbour Marina. http://www.monroeharbour.com/.
Transcript
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>This is Daniel Motta. It is June 13, 2012. I am at the Museum of Seminole County History, interviewing Bobby Martin. If we could just start—could you just tell me where you were born?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yes, sir. I was born in Tampa, Florida, Hillsborough County.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And what year was that?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>1944.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So what brought you over to Central Florida?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>My dad’s employment, basically.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And, what was he in?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Well, at that time, I believe he was working for the Imperial Oil Company. I believe he was. And I was about three, four years old when we moved up here from Tampa.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And you said, a little earlier, that you fished with him. Did he have experience fishing in the fishing industry as well?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah, absolutely. Well, to get to that, we’ll have to fast forward to 1960 or ’61.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, okay. Well, we’ll take it a little slower then. When you got here—could you describe your house. Your…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Absolutely.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Your—just your house, neighborhood. How it was then?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Sure. We moved up here—I’ll tell you this. My dad bought a house in Tampa when I was a baby. My mother told me this. They borrowed money from my grandmother. For $600, they bought a house. They paid the house off. And from that day forward, my dad never had a house mortgage. He was able to—to wheel and deal, and he never had a mortgage.</p>
<p class="Body">But the story is that we moved up here, and our first house was down by the Dog Track Road in Longwood, at the intersection of [Florida State Road] 17-92. It had a hand pump, for water, and it’s what they call a “shotgun house.” That means you can look in the front door and look right out the back door. That’s how they were built then—bedrooms on one side. And then, from there, we moved on up into Longwood, rented a house. And in 1948--about 1950, I guess—my dad built a house physically himself. Built us a house and raised four kids in that house for 21 years. And then after that—wasn’t long after that time period—I went to Vietnam, and while I was gone, Mom and Dad moved to another house, and then to another house. And, make a long story short, my dad has passed now, and my mother lives in assisted living here in Sanford at Renaissance Retirement [Center].</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So you, did you go to Vietnam right after high school, or...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>No, I was—no. I was—went to Vietnam in ’67, and ’68.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Were you drafted, then?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>I was drafted. Yeah. And I obtained the rank of sergeant, did the best I could, and came home. And in the military I was a wheeled-vehicle mechanic. And, other than that, I was involved in the commercial fishing industry before I went to Vietnam, but not very much before. About—we went into the commercial fishing in about 1961. And I can tell you how that happened, if you want to hear it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Well, you said you were a mechanic in the..</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Military.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Was that—have you always had an interest in that? Is that why you...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. Mm-hm.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>All right. And, would you like to continue? Were you about to...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah, I was gonna tell you—did you want me to tell you how we started in the fishing industry, or did you want to go somewhere else?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Well, what was the impact of the fishing industry like when you were younger, before you got into—before you went to Vietnam?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. Okay. Exactly. Well, the way it happened was, I had never heard of a commercial fisherman on the river prior to 1961 or thereabouts. My dad had a gas station at the corner of Airport Boulevard, which at that time was Anora Road and 17-92. The building still stands today. We were in the gas station one day, and two men pulled in in an old car, and they looked bad. And the old car was a 1937 four-door DeSoto sedan—had no backseat. It was a huge. It was as big as a barn. It was a huge car. And they came in for gas, and my daddy walked out to that car and looked in the back of that car, and there were two garbage cans in the back, and they were full of catfish. Well, Clarence Coir and Cecil Dile were in that car, and they got to talking about those catfish. Well, our family’s always loved to fish, but we never did commercial fishing. And, when my dad found out that you could actually earn a living catching fish, it wasn’t very long before the gas station was history, and we obtained ourselves a little boat, and we began to commercial fish.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So he sold the gas station to get a boat?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>That’s right. Right.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>All right. Well, so, that was when you were in your teens, or earlier than that?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>Early twenties. That was about 1961, ’62, I guess. Right along in there.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So, when you came back from Vietnam, did you get back into that industry, or were you, like, looking for other jobs before then?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Well, as a matter of fact, before I went to Vietnam—before I was drafted—I was involved in commercial fishing with my dad. He had his boat, and I had my boat. Now, these weren’t big boats like you see in the ocean. These were just river skiffs, basically, is what we fished out of.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Do you remember about how long they were?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yep. They were around 14 to 16 feet, and some of them were flat-bottomed, and some of them were what they call a “skip jack.” A skip jack is just a small boat, usually with a big engine on it, and it has a very sharp bow, so that when you carry a load in it, it’ll break the waves on the rough lake, and it’s stable. The flat-bottomed boats were better for calm water. So we got our two boats, we went to commercial fishing. The kind of commercial fishing we did from 19—approximately ’61, ‘til the time I went in the service—we used a trot line. Do you know what a trot line is?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>No.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>Trot line is a very, very, very long piece of string, with a lot of hooks on it. You see that in the Deadliest...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Oh, Deadliest…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>[<em>The</em>]<em> Perfect Storm</em>!</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>[<em>The</em>]<em> Perfect Storm</em>, they’re catching big fish. But it’s the same theory. It’s a long line about…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And you just drag it along the…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>No, they’re put out.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>They’re a quarter-mile long. And you go down the line on your little boat, and you knock the fish in the boat, bait the hook back, and go to the next hook, and so on, ‘til you progress down the line.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>This was in Lake Monroe or Lake Jesup?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>At that time, that was Lake Jesup, only.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>There were other fishermen doing the same thing, but my dad and I, at that time, fished out of Lake Jesup. We put our boats in Tuskawilla Road—used to run right down to the lake. It was a dirt road. And there was a bunch of wino commercial fishermen that lived there in the woods. Now, in that camp where they lived, they had a wooden nail keg—a wooden barrel—buried in the ground, and the groundwater seeped in through the cracks. And they would drink that water, and I saw maggots in that water. And they would live in this old camp.</p>
<p class="Body">Well, at that time, we left our boats right there at the boat, along the bank, ‘cause people didn’t steal your stuff then. We’d just drive down there, get in our boats, and go fishing, and come back, and beach the boat, and go sell our fish down at the fish house. Right across the road from Lowe’s, yeah, there was an establishment called Waits’—I don’t know how you spell “Waits”—their last name was Waits—Fish House. And they were a commercial fish outlet—inlet, whatever, distributor. And we would sell our fish at that fish house.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And where was this? What Lowe’s? What location?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Across the road from Lowe’s in Sanford.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay. So…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>Right where the Walmart is.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay. So pretty much all the commercial fishing was done in the lake. It wasn’t on the rivers usually?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Well, see, at that time, we were fishing in the lake. There was commercial fishing in both lakes and the river, and all up in North Florida. It was all statewide. But I’m just referring to what my dad and I did.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay. So how many fishermen usually were in the—well, commercial fishermen—in Lake Jesup?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Okay. Well Lake Jesup—I’ll say at any given time—people were running trot line. There might have been a dozen, I guess. But, see, when you’re running trot lines that are a quarter of a mile long, you run three or four of them. It takes up quite a large area.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>It seems like there might be a risk of them getting tangled. Was that ever a possibility?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. What would happen when one trot line—when one man would put his trot line unbeknownst to the other, across his, there was a common courtesy that when you ran your trot line, it would pick his up, and you would tie them together. And then when he saw that his line was on top of yours—so he would take his up, you see. Common courtesy.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So there was like an unspoken code, pretty much?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>All right.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>And sometimes it ended up in not so pleasant situations, but most of the time it worked pretty well.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Well, were there any…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Physical altercations?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Or just any feuds or anything between…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. There were always territorial wars on the lake. “I’m fishing this end of the lake.” “Well, you don’t own this lake. You don’t have a deed to it.” Back and forth, and so on, you know. “You go fish in that section,” and “I was here first,” and that kind of childish bickering went on constantly.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Did it ever escalate above just shouting or...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Mm-hm. Yeah. In some cases, it got physical. There were some boats sunk at different times. Hostility. But that was a rare occasion.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>You say boats sunk? How exactly did that…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Well, there are stories. And, you know, I have to confess. I’m gonna relay a story or two to you that were stories that were relayed to me, and I don’t know how much foundation there was to them.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>But I would—from that industry, I would say they’re probably pretty well true. One of the stories is that one gentleman had his trot lines out—now, these lines, you leave them—at that time, you would leave them in the water, and you would take the fish off and re-bait the hook, and go on down the line. So the lines stayed in the water, at that time. And this gentleman had his line out, and when he went out to his line, there were some people—sports fishermen—fishing out there, and they had his trot line on up out of the water. Well, now, this gentleman had a skip jack with a great big stack of motor on the back of it, and he was probably running 100 horse[power] or better. Boat probably run 70 miles an hour. So he pulled up to them. He said, “What you all doing?” And they said, “We’re taking some catfish off this trot line.” He said, “Well, isn’t that something?” Then he fired that motor up, and he made a big circle out there on the lake ‘til he got her up running good and fast, and he cut that boat in half, and he put both of them in the water. So, that kind of stuff would go on, you know, occasionally. But I gotta tell you, my friend, that’s a rare occasion. That didn’t happen every day.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Did all the commercial fishermen kind of stick together if there was some kind of…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Confrontation?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Water sports?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Sports fishermen.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Is that what you refer to them?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. You had commercial fishermen, then you had your sports fishermen. That was always a conflict there.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And you pretty much stuck together if there was any kind of…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah, but we didn’t gang up on people.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>All right.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>We weren’t that type.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>You weren’t looking to…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>It was—looking at it from the sportsmen’s objective[sic] is that they were right in their complaint that we had these lines all over the lake, and they’re out there drifting for speckled perch. Some people call them “crappie.” They’re drifting, deep, then their line’d get hung on it, and they’re [inaudible]. They’d wind it all in. Well, it’s a trot line. And they’d get their motors caught in them, so it was probably a nuisance. At the same time, we’d go out to our trot lines and find them cut in two, and they’re all tangled up, and the fish all make big balls out of the trot lines. So there was always some kind of a war going on out there, but it was usually verbal.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So how long did you have the lines out at a time? Like, when you went out on the lake? How long was that?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>What we would do—we’d go out about daylight.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>We’d walk along the shoreline with a little net and we’d catch shrimp. There were brine shrimp that lived in the river, if you didn’t know that. They look like any other shrimp, but they’re just smaller. And we would bait our trot lines with them. So, we would put our lines out, bait them up, and we would actually— we’d get probably—maybe a couple weeks before we had to pull them back up and then re-hook them, you see. Put new hooks on the lines, ‘cause the hooks, after a while, they’ll deteriorate, rust, begin to break, get dull. So you had to put new hooks on your trot lines. So you would bring it in, put it in a big tub, bring it in, cut the old hooks off, put new hooks on, put it on a special rack that I’ll tell you about later, and we’d go put the line back out in the water.</p>
<p class="Body">Now, later on, this type of fishing—when I got back from Vietnam, I met a family that had come up here from Clewiston, and they were deep into commercial fishing all their lives. And they knew a technique that I did not know, and they would put the lines out at dusk, and pick the line up in the morning, and just knock the fish off of it. They would call it “boating the line.” They’d put the line in a tub, and they’d take the line home, and put it on this rack I’m telling you about, and repair any damage to it, jump it out at dusk, and the same process. They called that “jump lining.” Well, they taught me how to do that. This family kind of just took me in. They just liked me, I guess. And, so they taught me how to jump line. So from that point, my dad and I kind of separated in that he remained in Lake Jesup doing what we call “stay lining” or leaving them overboard, and I migrated up into the river and Lake Monroe, because now I started fishing at night. I started using different kind of equipment, different kind of light. My dad didn’t use lights. He’d fish in the daytime. I started using lights, and I started jumping the lines out in the evening, picking them up in the morning, and playing all day. I was single and running crazy.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So about how old were you when you and your dad split up the boat?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>That would have been about 1970, I guess. Something like that. We didn’t part enemies. I just took on a different kind of fishing. And for 10 years—after I got back from Vietnam—for 10 years, I lived on various kinds of boats on the river. I actually lived on the river. And Archie Smith at Sanford Boat Works [& Marina]—finally I moved one of my boats into his marina. And after he talked to me for a while, he asked me if I would like to run his little store there on the weekends. And I said, “Sure!”</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>It’s like a bait shop, or...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>Well, what it was—no bait—it was what is called a “ship store.” They’d sell screws and hardware and bilge pumps. Of course, they had their yachts in the marina. So, I went to work one weekend, and my next day off was a year later. I ended up working seven days a week! [<em>laughs</em>] But I still fished at night. Archie’s a great guy. This guy—you know Archie?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>I’m trying to get an interview with him, actually.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>You’ve got to. You’d better have some time, though, ‘cause he’s got a lot to tell you. He’s a wonderful man.</p>
<p class="Body">And anyway, I lived in the marina and worked at the marina for five years, but I was still commercial fishing and still living on my boat. But I bought and sold, back and forth, different boats to live on, always making a profit. And I lived on boats for 10 years, on the river, and that was a cool thing to do.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Sounds kind of nice, actually.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So the lines, that was pretty much—the trot lines, that was the way to catch fish? You didn’t use—you only used the nets for the shrimp and...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Okay. That’s a good question. Now we’re gonna get in the part where we’re gonna talk about some poaching.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>With a trot line, basically, you can’t poach, ‘cause it’s all legal. But now, when I moved up into the river, and I fell in with some friends up here. We began to do what they call “monkey fishing.” And most people, they don’t know what monkey fishing is. It’s just—I don’t guess it’s a local name been given to it—but it’s using electric generator. And these generators generally come in the old field phone or an old crank telephone. It’s an armature with a series of bar magnets stacked over the armature, and when it spins, it generates an electrical current. Well, my daddy had one of those monkeys—we’d call it—in his old shop, when I was a little boy. You running out of time? And I saw that thing laying in the shop for years. I didn’t know what it was. Well then, when I fell in with these guys and I found out what a monkey was, I said, “I’ve got one of those.” And I went home and I got that monkey and I fastened it to a board, and I hooked an electric motor to it. And brother, we went fishing.</p>
<p class="Body">Now when you turn that monkey on, if you turn it too fast, it doesn’t work. If you turn it too slow, it doesn’t work. There’s a certain rhythmic impulse for that machine, which is relatively slow, the catfish can’t stand. It doesn’t affect any scale fish. It doesn’t affect eels, gar, brim, stingrays—nothing but catfish. And so, we would go out at night with very powerful headlights. My light was a landing light off of an aircraft. It was about a half a million candlepower. And we would run that monkey, we’d put a wire over each side of the boat, and the fish would literally try to get out of the water. They’d come up to the top, and they’re running around, and we’ve got long poles with nets on them. When that started, we’d dip them up and put them in the boat.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So they’d be jumping out of the water?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah, they’d jump up on the banks. Some of them would jump in the boat. It was crazy. We’d be laughing. It was funny. But it was illegal. I gotta tell you, it was illegal. But we made a lot of money doing that. And, so, I’ll say this—and I want this to go on the record—because that monkey machine, as we’d call it, will not work in any water at all times. There are several conditions that have to be favorable for its function. The water has to be low, basically a drought situation—wintertime low. Water has to be hot, disgusting, nasty. Usually it’s green with algae. But what happens in that process—and a lot of commercial fishermen don’t understand this the alkalinity in that water is magnified, because the water volume is reduced, thus condensing the amount of alkalinity in that water. Now the river’s a battery. It’s a conductor. You put the two wires over it, now you’ve got a current flowing, as well as radiating, and it drives the fish crazy. If it rains a lot and dilutes that water, or the water’s high—still diluted—you lose that connection, and it doesn’t work at all. So we knew that it would only work in the summertime. But that’s why. It has to do with the alkalinity and acidity in the water.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>This sounds like a kind of complicated process. Is this something that most fishermen knew, or was it something like you guys just figured out after a while?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>I think we all knew it, but I don’t think a lot of the commercial fishermen—and I was one. So I guess, I wasn’t of the same mind as most commercial fishermen, I gotta tell you. I’m not better than them, I just came from a different spoke of the wheel. I would investigate things. I take things apart now. I have an inquisitive mind. So I delved into why this thing worked. They don’t give a hoot. All they care is if it works or it don’t[sic] work. But anyway, that’s why I was able to share with you why it works, and why sometimes it doesn’t.</p>
<p class="Body">Now, I don’t wanna get long-winded, but I could tell you something else phenomenal about commercial fishing. There is a time of year that you will catch more fish on a trot line with no bait than you will with bait. And they call it “fishing empty hooks.” And you ask a commercial fisherman, “Why is that?” “I don’t know! Just this time of year. They bite empty hooks.” Well, I did some investigating. When acidic water is acidic water, as opposed to pure water, it’s a good conductor. It’s also corrosive. When you drop a metallic object into corrosive water, on whatever scale, it will begin to deteriorate. It’s called “electrolysis action.” It rusts. It corrodes. When it does that, it puts out a minute electrical aura around that which is deteriorating. You understand that. Iron deteriorating in air, when it gets wet, is called “oxidation.” Metal deteriorating in water, going through the same process, I guess it’s oxidation. It’s a mixing of a metal with oxygen. But it occurs under the water, and it generates a small electrical charge.</p>
<p class="Body">A catfish’s whiskers are so ultra-sensitive, he doesn’t even need eyes. And I’ve got a book on this—I’ve read this, so I’m not just spinning you a yarn. They are so ultra-sensitive, that in itself is why the monkey affects only catfish. And it won’t affect any other kind of fish. Now the state uses a generator to bring up scale fish to do a count. They’re using an AC [alternating current] voltage. Well, the monkey’s putting out a DC [direct current] voltage. And they use 110 volts—a different kind of electricity to affect the scale fish.</p>
<p class="Body">But anyway, that’s why a certain time of the year, you can catch more fish on a trot line on empty hooks than you can with bait, because the fish goes for that electrical aura. That’s how catfish can find food. They can actually find food by that. Any living thing has a small—you have electricity in your body. Well, I don’t care how small the organism is, it has an aura, and the catfish can find their food with that. So when they swim by that hook, and they go, “Oh, this is lunch,” and they grab it. And there will be fish on almost every hook. But the water condition has to be right. When that water’s diluted, all of a sudden that doesn’t work.</p>
<p class="Body">We’ve caught thousands of pounds of fish on pink Camay soap. And you could always tell when the fish were biting on the pink Camay soap, because you’d go into the store, and all the soap displays were all crumbled, because the commercial fisherman would pick up the bar of soap and shove his thumbnail in it. If he could push his thumbnail in it, the bar of soap was a nice, fresh bar, and you could cut it up. If you couldn’t push your thumbnail in it, he didn’t want that one. So they’d destroy all the pink Camay. And they would only bite on pink Camay. So we’ve caught catfish in a commercial way on pink Camay soap.</p>
<p class="Body">Shrimp—local shrimp here in the river—there’s brine or grass shrimp, snails. The bottoms of these lakes and the river are just literally covered with millions of snails. There’s a certain way you get the snail out of his shell to put it on the hook. Watermelon produces large channel catfish. But not many of them, but the thing of it is, would you rather clean five great big fish, or two hundred little bitty fish? So we would use watermelon sometimes. Watermelon. Cantaloupe was a good producer of large channel cats. I think that somehow the large channel cats, believe it or not, they must favor something sweet. I have a friend right now that’s running trot line right now, today, he’s baiting with corn, canned corn, and he’s just cleaning house.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] I would never imagine that would…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Well, see. That’s another reason I’m glad we’re having this interview. And this stuff could—that’s why I asked you on the phone, “Could this be a long interview?” This could go on—I could tell you stuff like this for days. And you don’t have that kind of time, let alone that amount of stuff on that machine. So anyway. Therein lies that. And in Lake Monroe, we would do the trot line. Now if you want, I’ll get into other methods we caught fish.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Well, let me just ask you this quickly. The device—monkey? What’d you call it, the monkey?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>A monkey.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay. You said that wasn’t really legal, technically.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Not legal at all! No way.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Was there, at that time—what kind of presence did the fish and wildlife have? Like, were they patrolling the rivers and the lakes a lot?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Like, did you have to watch out for them?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Very much so. That’s a good question, Daniel. Matter of fact, what we would do, occasionally—sometimes we just went monkey fishing, but occasionally, we would go down to, we would drive down to Mullet Lake Park, or we’d go down to [Lake] Harney, or we’d park right here across the river at 17-92. We’d go to that park at night. Well, it’s closed. We’d drive around behind the park, and come up the back way, and come under the fence. And we’d go down to the boat ramp, make sure the game warden wasn’t in. Now, if his truck was sitting there, we knew he was in the area. So if his truck wasn’t there, now we drove down to Mullet Park and it wasn’t there, we had a full, pretty fair shot that he wasn’t in our area, and we’d go monkey fishing. So, but, the game warden…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So it was kind of a risk, a little bit, or...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /><br /></strong>I’m sorry?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Was it kind of a risk, or...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Absolutely. Every time we went monkey fishing, it was a risk. But the game warden and the average commercial fisherman didn’t have a real good rapport. I happened to have had a good rapport with the game warden. I respected him. He was a good man. A lot of guys didn’t. And he almost caught me doing some illegal things, but he never caught me. He never caught me, brother. [<em>laughs</em>]</p>
<p class="Body">But anyway, the game wardens were always—it was like the old movies—cowboys and Indians. The cowboys chase the Indians, or the Indians chase the cowboys. And it was that kind of a thing, you know. But he’d catch—occasionally catch somebody and write them up, and then there was always a dispute. If he caught somebody doing something illegal in Lake Monroe, when they went to court, the commercial fisherman would say, “Well, where did you catch me?” And he’d say, “I caught you in Lake Monroe.” And he would say, “Well, where in Lake Monroe did you catch me?” Because the county line runs right through the middle of the lake. So, and a lot of times, it was thrown out of court. [<em>laughs</em>]</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So what were these other methods of fishing you were...</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Now there’s a—fish traps, at that time, when I was doing that, were illegal. Now, I didn’t get into the trapping much.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>What kind of traps were they?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>Good question. A trap was made, basically, with chicken wire. Now, picture in your mind a round tube made of chicken wire, approximately 18 inches to 2 feet in diameter, 3 feet high—maybe 4. Now pinch one end of that tube shut. So it’s seamed at the bottom, now it’s open at the top, in which there is an inverted funnel laid on its side on the bottom of the lake with food in it. Catfish would go in the funnel, and they’re too stupid to find their way out. They turn around, now they’re against—between the trap and the funnel, and they can’t get out. And they just continue to fill up, fill up with catfish. And when the person—you would tie that to a long line, like a trot line—when you would run your trap string, as they called it, you’d pull the trap up, you unzip the bottom of it, drop your fish out, close it back up, threw some more bait in there, you threw her back overboard.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And this was illegal, as well?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>At that time, it was. It isn’t now. At that time, trapping was not legal.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Is there a reason why—do you know why that became illegal? It doesn’t seem very harmful.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Well, I don’t know the particulars as to why it would be illegal, unless it would be because of the amount of fish harvested. Other than that, I don’t know why. I just know it was illegal, and if they would catch you, they would confiscate your traps, stomp them all down, and then put you in jail.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, really?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>They’d jail you?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>If they caught you with the stuff, yeah. But a lot of people were doing it. But I never did the trap. I don’t know why. I was always content to do the trot line. I was a trot liner. And then I got into monkey fishing. Now there’s another method of fishing that we—oh, this was fun, brother. Out off the coast of Florida, they do a lot of shrimping. Behind those boats, they pull what’s called a “shrimp trawl.” Do you know what that is?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>No.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Have you seen a shrimp boat?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Yes.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>It’s got the two things sticking up here. When they’re out in the ocean, they’re called “outriggers.” They’ll drop them down. And from those—back behind the boat are two long ropes tied to a very wide-mouth net, and it comes down to what they call a “sock.” This is wide at the beginning. It comes down to a long tube. They drag that along the ocean bottom, and that’s how they catch the shrimp that you put on your dinner table. We had a shrimp net—a trawl, as it was called. Well, we would pull the trawl on Lake Monroe, with 100 horse Mercury. Now, you couldn’t pull it very fast, ‘cause it was 35 feet wide and dragging the bottom. Had a cork line on top to hold the top up, and it had a lead line on the bottom to hold the bottom down. So it was bagged out, and you would drag that along the bottom of the lake, and you would catch your catfish that way. And that was easy pickings there. It’d take a long time, but see, you could get caught doing that, too. You had to always be on the lookout for the game warden out there in the lake. This was done at nighttime, with no lights.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And you said you did participate in that kind of…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>I’m sorry?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>You did use that kind of a method sometimes?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. Yep. Pulled a trawl in Lake Monroe, right down the channel, catch all kinds of catfish. But once again, that was illegal. Very illegal.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>You keep saying “catfish.” Is that pretty much all—the catfish—that was pretty much the prize fish you…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. Now, catfish was a legal fish. Now, once you caught that catfish, and took it to market, nobody cared. I mean, it was just a fish on the market. So if you trapped it, if you monkeyed it up, if you dug it with a trawl, or however, once you took it to market, it was fair game. How you got the fish was a different story. Now, there were a lot of brim captured with trawl, traps, and sold on black market. The brim, you didn’t have to clean them. You ice them down, and they run them across the state line or wherever they went, and you could sell brim.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>But they weren’t legal to sell or to catch?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Not at all. That’s right. No game fish. Commercial fishermen were not allowed to have a game fish in his boat.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So what were the fish that were—aside from catfish—I mean, did you even bother with any other fish, or where there’s like—was it like smaller…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Oh, no. We just focused on catfish. And if you really got desperate and wanted to make some money on black market, you would catch brim and speckle perch, which is crappie. And I didn’t get into that much. I stayed—basically, catfish.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>And, did a lot of things illegally to catch the catfish. It was a lot of fun, made a lot of money. But, you understand, commercial fishing industry, it’s either feast or famine. You’re making a lot of money in a very short period of time. But when you’re not doing it, and that money’s gone, you’ve got to do it again to produce that kind of money, or you just gotta get by the best way you can. So if your trot line’s only producing a small amount of money, basically whatever that figure might be, and the monkey—or the trawl, the traps—are producing a lot, and you’re not doing that fashion, that method anymore, now you’ve gotta revert back to your trot line, which takes hours and hours to run. A lot of effort, you see. Then you’re gonna gravitate towards the easy pickings. Now the trot lines, they were on average about a quarter of a mile long—about 1,300 feet long each. And we would run anywhere from two to four, five of those a day.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Okay. Were there any other methods of catching a fish that you haven’t gone over?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah, one more. It’s called a “hoop net.” It’s a long net, much like the trawl in the—what I called the “sock” or the “tube area.” It has no large, wide mouth, like a trawl. It just has a round mouth with a funnel. This is all made out of string. It’s netting. Has multiple hoops in it. Looks like a big caterpillar laying on the bottom. Like a big sausage. And one end of it is tied off. Pinched shut. The other end is wide open with the funnel, and the catfish will go in that. Just like a large trap, only instead of being made of chicken wire, it’s—I don’t know—four, five feet wide and it has fiberglass round hoops that are attached as ribs every couple of feet.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And this was being pulled?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>No. That’s just anchored in the river, like a trap, and the fish would just go in it. And you’d go out there and pick it up and drag the fish out of it. That’s illegal. I don’t know that hoop nets are illegal now. That might not be. You see, what has happened, Daniel, is the farm-raised catfish. You’re familiar with that?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Mm-hm.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Farm-raised catfishing industry has accelerated to the effect that it has shut down the wild commercial fishermen. Because people prefer restaurants, big dealers are buying up farm-raised catfish. However, I will say this: farm-raised catfish on the plate are distinctively different than those that came out of the wild. The flesh is relatively flabby and tasteless. And the reason for that, Daniel, is that the farm-raised catfish lays on the bottom of that pond where he’s raised, and he is fed. He doesn’t have to move. He just eats, goes back, and lays on the bottom. The wild catfish has to work for his food, and his muscle tone is good, the flesh is firm, and he has a better taste when you want to eat some catfish.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So catfish quality has pretty much declined over the years, as a result of restaurants preferring raised fish?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. If you buy catfish filet at a restaurant, you’ll find it’s—it’s edible. It’s good. It is. I’m not mocking them. I’m just telling you that a wild catfish is better on the plate than a farm-raised catfish. It really is. So if you go to a restaurant that has wild catfish—which I think Black Hammock Fish Camp on the bottom end of Jesup there has—they’re a lot better, and that’s the reason why. It’s not that I’m down on the farm-raised fish. It’s just a matter of fact.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Well. You mentioned going to Lake Harney, right? What was like, the—like your territory? Like how far did you go out on the lakes and the rivers?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>My territory was basically Lake Jesup and the [St. Johns] River connecting Lake Jesup and Lake Monroe, and Lake Monroe. That was my territory that I fished. Well, other people did too, but just personally, that’s just the area that I fished. A local area. No commercial fisherman fishes the entire length of 128 miles of St. John River, so we all—you live in this town, you fish this section, and that guy lives in that town, he fishes that section, ‘cause it’s not practical to do that. But I just fished Lake Jesup and the river between Jesup and Monroe, and mostly Lake Monroe.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So never outside of Lake Monroe, like north on the river? No?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>No. ‘Bout the I[nterstate Highway]-4 bridge, from there north up. I been up there, but not in a commercial fashion.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay. And, I’m curious, so what were the year—when did you stop commercial fishing? What year?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>It’s a gray area, Daniel, because an industry like that—to where you see all the beautiful sunsets and the sunrises, and you’re out there in nature at night, it’s so inviting to the typical guy. You get out of it, and you’re back in it. And you’re back out of it, and you’re back in it. You meander. Nobody just quits commercial fishing one day, ‘cause it gets in your blood, so to speak. It becomes in your fiber. But I’ll say that I finally relinquished all commercial fishing, on a commercial basis, probably about 1971, something like that.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, okay. So did you notice any—it might have been a little early in ’71, but did you notice any effective—like pollution, with more people moving to Central Florida? Was there any, like, effect on the water and the fish?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>Yeah. Now, the answer to that, basically, is no, as far as the fish are concerned. But I, of course, through the years, been on a river as many years as I have, there’s a lot more pollution—people camping on the riverbank and leaving old grills and beer cans and bottles up in the woods. It’s disgusting, the way people actually treat the river. Now, although I was a commercial fisherman, don’t exclude me to the fact that where you think I don’t have good sense, because I like to think that I do, and I’m an advocate for the river. And it offends me greatly when the river’s abused. I see the erosion of the boat wake. Now, nobody can help that. Boat wakes will erode the bank and the trees fall. That—okay. That’s okay. But the debris that people leave behind when they go out. They have a good time on the river, and they leave their trash on the riverbank. I’ve got a real, real problem with that. There’s just no call for that. But anyway, to answer your question, as far as the fish are concerned, haven’t seen anything negative reflect from the fish at all.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Did you know any other fisher—like, I don’t know how—how far out you got, but did you know any fishermen from Lake—I read Lake Apopka, for instance, there was a pretty—it was pretty—with the pesticides used from the surrounding farmlands, it got pretty bad for a while there. Was there not really much of that around here?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>No, not here. It was bad in Lake Apopka. It really was. No, haven’t seen that here. Personally, I can’t say that I have.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>The water quality comes and goes with the seasons. In the summertime, before the rainy season, water’s low. Not all that inviting sometimes. It gets a lot of algae. And algae’s a natural process.</p>
<p class="Body">But now I’ll tell you this: away from the commercial fishing, and just looking at the river itself, most of the time that I was commercial fishing, the hyacinths were a nuisance. Because the hyacinths would move, and the hyacinth produces a new plant, I think, every 72 hours. So they’re prolific beyond compare, I guess, but there would be literal acres—a half-acre of hyacinths floating in the water. And you try to run a trot line up off the bottom, you pick that trot line up, and there’s this a half a[sic] acre of hyacinths you can’t even get through. It’s impassable. That’s a problem. So they were a problem. Hyacinths were a problem to small boat navigation. They were a problem to the commercial fishermen. However, when the state began to spray the hyacinths, they would die and settle to the bottom. Now you try to run a trot line in that. When you pick it up off the bottom, all those hyacinths that were floating on top are now rotting on the bottom, and they’re all over your trot line. There’s another problem. And they turn to silt, and it just gets worse and worse. But I’ve got to say in defense of the hyacinths, I think water quality was better, because their, the way they feed, as they float to the water—have you ever seen the root of a hyacinth?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>It’s pretty long, right?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah, and it was like a feather. It was like a feather duster. It hangs in the water. And as it moves along, it collects nutrients out of the water, and thus it cleans the water. So, they have sprayed so many hyacinths—the state has—that I feel like that the water quality is not what it could be with the hyacinths. In other words, I don’t have a problem with them spraying the hyacinths, but I think they’ve overdone it. They’ve virtually almost wiped them out.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Yeah. You don’t really see them that much anymore, do you?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>No. No. You don’t. And the habitat—the shrimp and a lot of small fish would live up under the hyacinths in the roots, and the game fish were up there all the time. You could find a hole in the hyacinths, and fish through that hole, and catch all kinds of fish. Well, there are no hyacinths. It’s good to look at, nice pretty water, but it’s not as good as it could be. And that hyacinth is not a natural plant for Florida, you know. It came here, I think, from the Orient.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>You mentioned earlier some altercations with other fishermen. Aside from the human aspect, were there any major, like, dangers with—I’d imagine there’s some kinds of dangers with commercial fishing? Natural dangers or just, like, the boat. Like, what did you have to look out for, pretty much?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. Okay. I’m glad you brought that up. One of the most agonizing injuries a commercial fisherman can get is to get horned by a catfish. A catfish has three horns—or spikes, fins—two out the side of each side of the head, and one up on the dorsal fin in the back. Now these fins are—they’re designed in a way that they’re serrated. They go in slick, but coming out is a different story, because it has, like, teeth on the backside of it, all in one direction, allowing it smooth penetration, but a very painful extraction. And to get stuck by one and bleed a little bit, it hurts a little bit and that’s it. But if you get one jammed in all the way in halfway through your hand, and you gotta pull that thing out, that’s a bad deal, brother. So anyway, that’s a bad deal.</p>
<p class="Body">And I’ll tell you something a lot of people don’t know about catfish. One of the things that creates the intense pain when one is stuck by a catfish is the slime on the fish. And the way I found that out is, I had a cut on my hand one day when I picked up a catfish, and it just stung beyond belief, and I realized that that had something to do with it. I don’t think the catfish injects you with anything. I can’t say yes or no. I don’t think so.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Maybe like the bacteria or something?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. And infection is rampant. You need to get attention for a deep puncture wound from a catfish. But catfish will hurt you. A stingray will hurt you. I didn’t mess around with the alligators. I’m not of the mindset that I like to kill things. I kill the catfish to survive, but I’m not a hunter.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Well, yeah, you were on Lake Jesup a lot. Was the alligator population pretty big then, too?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Tremendous.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Did they pretty much just leave you alone?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. An alligator’s a misunderstood animal. He’s docile in his realm. He’s shy. He’ll stay away from you. Sometimes he’s kind of curious, but he won’t come up to you. He’ll stay off some distance and watch you, and that’s about it.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Even—you started in the early morning, right? They’re pretty active then. They still just kind of ignored you?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. You’d see them out there, see their heads up out on the lake, and they’re just trying to catch a garfish or a turtle or something, you know. They’re not the aggressive animal the media has made them out to be. You corner an alligator, he’s gonna try to hurt you.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Mess with its nest or something?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. That’s right. But if you leave the gator alone, he wants to get away from you. He don’t wanna be around a human being. On the other hand, people that feed the gators, they’re asking for trouble. That’s a different scenario. But in the wild, an alligator—he’s not gonna come charging up and jump in your boat, and all that stuff, whatever you might have heard. They’re docile. I should say—I can’t say “docile.” They’re hostile when they are challenged. But other than that, they don’t.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So, you worked for your father. Was there more crew than you and your father, I’m assuming?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Just my dad and I.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, really?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. And he had his little boat, and I had mine, and he ran his trot lines, and I ran my trot lines, and I lived with my dad.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>So even when you went off into Lake Monroe, it was just you?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Well, about that time’s when I started living on the boat, and so I had left on a different path.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay. But you didn’t have, like, deck hands or anything?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>No. No, ‘cause the boats were too small. It’s only big enough for one boat, ‘cause you put a lot of fish and that commercial fishing equipment in the boat, and you—there is no room for anybody else. ‘Cause you’ve got a trot line what you call “wrapped,” and long hooks, and buoys, and all this fishing equipment. Lights and batteries and all kinds of stuff in the boat. So the boat’s only 14 feet long, there’s not a whole lot of room in there. So you gotta walk over all your stuff to get from one end of the boat to the other. And the trot line, by the way, is run from the bow. You sit right up in the bow, if you didn’t know that, to run the trot line, and the boat just kind of follows along as you go down that trot line.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Okay. So, since it was just you in the boat, did you have to kind of—I guess you knew what you were doing—but did you have to take care that you didn’t hurt yourself, or fall out or something? I mean, there’s nobody watching your back, pretty much?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Well, that’s right. You’re out there by yourself a lot. Yeah, you know—and that is good. You didn’t want an explosion or fire in your boat, which I never heard of that happening, but you wouldn’t want that out there by yourself.</p>
<p class="Body">But I think the main thing you had to watch out for was—every commercial fisherman had a knife. It was a tool, and you could get cut, which I had done. You could get a pretty bad cut. Or, at times, when you’re baiting a trot line, when you grab this hook to bait it, you let go out this side of the boat, as you’re going down the line. You follow me? So you grab this hook, you bait, you let it go, and you grab this hook. Now, now you’re spread eagle. When you come together the length of the next pull, when you let that hook go, it’s a crucial moment, because if the wind is blowing—and this has happened to me and my dad—you pull that hand back, and that hook will bury itself right there in the palm of your hand, ‘cause it’s flopping in the wind, and you pull your hand back—it’s got you. So then you cut that little—it’s called a “brailing.” You have a trot line, you have a little string hanging down with a hook on it. You would cut that little string off, leave the hook embedded in your hand, finish your work, and come home and go to the doctor and have him cut it out. But what I would do, I’d just get a pair of pliers, jerk it out, and it’d pull out a hunk of meat. I wasn’t gonna go to the doctor. I’m not big and bad. I was cheap. [<em>laughs</em>] I wasn’t going to the doctor. Uh-uh. But we’d pull it out.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, man. [<em>laughs</em>] Well, do you have any other stories you’d like to share, or I mean…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>A lot. A lot, but I can’t take up your whole day, brother.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>We’ve got a little time left.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>All right. One time when I was married, I came home from the lake and I had exactly that scenario.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>All right, sorry about that. You were about to start a story?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. That’s fine. We were talking about injuries or potential injuries. And, only because you asked me, I’ll tell you this story. But I came home that one day, and I had a hook buried in the palm of my hand. That little—what they call a “brailing” —that little piece of string on it. And as I said, at that time I was married. Well, outside we had a clothesline, and a T-fashion pole at each end. So, I knew she wasn’t gonna pull that out of my hand. So, I took a concrete block and I tied a string to it, and I set it right up on the top of the center of that T on that clothesline, and right beside the clothesline was my truck. So I laid my hand on the truck, and I tied a loop around that hook, and I held the shank down on this side, where it would pull that hook out reverse, and I called her out in the yard. And I said, “Push that concrete block off the clothesline.” And she looked at that scenario and saw that line coming down to my hand, and saw that hook, and she wouldn’t do it. And I insisted, so she finally tipped that concrete block off, and it went over the side of that clothesline pole. And when that line tightened up, brother, that hook come out of that hand and it pulled a hunk of meat about the size of an English pea. It put a hole in the middle of my hand. [<em>laughs</em>]</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>It seems you would have a lot of scars from this industry.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>But you know, there’s probably so many scars, they just all run together. Now, I’ll tell you—you wanna hear this scar? That scar runs from that middle finger down around here, and comes around here, and it goes right through here. Well, my friend had a skip jack—fiberglass skip jack. That’s a boat I told you about earlier. And it was brand new. It didn’t have the bow cap on it. Boat comes to a point at the bow, and you have a little cap that goes on it right there. It’s a decorative cap over the bow. It’s usually aluminum or something like that. Well, now you’ve got this boat with bare fiberglass bow sticking out like this, and it’s sharp. I was right there in front of the Sanford Boat Works, and my friend was running the boat, and because he just got it, he wanted me to stand on the bank and watch the boat run by, to watch how she was running in the water. So he ran by a couple of times, and then he wanted me to run it, so he could stand on the bank and watch it run. So I ran the boat, and when I came back, he wanted to do it one more time, so he ran the boat, and the wind was blowing that day, and I was standing right at the water’s edge. Water was low. There was a bluff bank about four feet high right to my rear. So the bank came at one level, dropped 90 degrees down to a very short four-foot beach to the water. You follow me?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>So now I’m standing on this little beach in front of this big bluff bank behind me. My friend makes a circle and comes back with this boat with a[sic] 80-horse Mercury on it, and he slows it down. He’s just gonna let it come right down to the beach there. Well, he came in a little bit hot. So I reached out to get a hold of the bow of the boat to slow it down as it come in, and it just shoved that hand right into that bank, and it almost took those two fingers off. And that’s what those scars are right there. It just about amputated that half of my hand, when that boat pinched my hand between the bow and that dry muck bank back there. [<em>laughs</em>]</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>It seems like you had a lot of injuries with your hands. Didn’t that, like, prevent you from doing basic boating…</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>Sure. Yeah. It’d cripple you up for a while. It sure would, boy.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Did you ever have to, like, stop fishing for a while?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. I was skinning fish one time. The way we’d clean the fish, you would take the fish, you’d cut him right behind the head here on both sides. And you would have a reverse hook on a ramp. So you got a little ramp with a reverse hook on it. You would hook that fish on that hook, take a pair of skinners, and pull that hide off the catfish and throw him in the stack, and then you would take his head off and gut him and he goes into the last process, you see.</p>
<p class="Body">Well, I was skinning fish one night at the Sanford Boat Works. I had a little hook set up out there, and right under my hand right here is what we called a “red cat.” Now, a red cat is what they call—some people call them “brown bullheads,” “spotted catfish” —and they have red meat. The meat’s red, but it’s good. And that red cat was right there, and I was skinning that fish. Well, the skinner slipped off the hide, and my hand went right down the back of that fish, and that fin was sticking up I just told you about. And it went almost through my hand. When I got that taken care of—and like usual not going to a doctor—I rubbed some stuff on it, bandaged it up, and I was crippled up where I couldn’t hardly use that hand. Well, in about three days, it got all swelled up. My fingers got real tight like they were gonna split open. And it got red, boy. I mean, it was hot. And finally, I went to the doctor, and the doctor got all over my case. He said, “Twenty-four more hours, we’d have taken that hand off.” He said, “You’ve got blood poisoning in that hand.” He was not nice to me. He seemed like he was offended. They pumped me full of antibiotics, and got that taken care of.</p>
<p class="Body">And I’ll tell you another time, a stingray—I had a stingray on a hook, and I was trying to take him off, ‘cause I didn’t want to hurt him, and that was not a smart thing to do. So, I rolled my hand under his back and turned him belly up, thinking he couldn’t get me with that tail. It’d be hanging out here in the air. And I’m over here trying to take that hook out of his mouth, and he run that spike right in that knuckle right there, and buried it in that knuckle, and gave me a good shot of his poison. Well, I was bleeding pretty good[sic], and I got rid of that scenario. Cut the string and threw him over. And about that time, I had a girlfriend. She was out there with me. And she said, “You better go ‘n’ have that taken care of.” And I’m like, “No. It’s all right. I’m okay.” Well, we kept fishing, and after a while, my wrist got to hurting, and then my elbow got to hurting, and I started rocking. You know, I didn’t want her to see it. She said, “You’re hurting. We’d better go right now.” So by the time we got to the boat ramp, I couldn’t hardly get the boat up on the boat trailer, ‘cause now it’s hurting up here under my shoulder. And we went right straight down, right to my house, and parked the boat, got in her car, and took me to the hospital. They gave me an IV of Benadryl, morphine, and some other stuff, because of the infectious poison that the stingray had. So that’s another thing a commercial fisherman doesn’t want to do is a stingray.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>And there’s—I didn’t know there were freshwater stingrays in. This was in the lake?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. Lake Jesup, Lake Monroe are just thick with stingrays.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh. I never knew that.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. If you fish with worms or a protein-type bait—worms, shrimp, snail, meat of anything—throw that on the bottom, you’ve got a good chance of catching a stingray. Now, I know you’re running out of time, but I’ll tell you how the stingrays got here, because a lot of people don’t know, and I’m a reader. I read. I try—I’m not very educated, but I try to educate myself. And I read a book by Bill Belleville, and he wrote this book on nothing but the St. John’s River and the history thereof.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Do you remember the title of it?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah, <em>River of Lakes</em>[<em>: A Journey on Florida's St. Johns River</em>]. And the St. John’s River originates over there just west of Melbourne. And at one time, the St. John’s River used to run directly into the Atlantic Ocean in an easterly fashion. The whole east coast of Florida literally rose up—this is probably millions of years ago, but they’ve done studies and they know this—thus forming the St. John’s River basin. And the river had to go somewhere, so it meandered, and it found its way out at Jacksonville. Now, when it did that, it encapsulated a lot of salt water. It was a saltwater marsh. Well, those stingrays were there. There were stingrays, there were mullet, and there were seahorses, and there were all kind of saltwater animals living in this saltwater marsh that eventually turned into the St. John’s River. So these stingrays that are here, most people think they come up from Jacksonville. They didn’t come up from anywhere. They’ve always been here. So that’s how the stingrays, the American eel, small seahorses—a few, not many—-mullet, stripers, croakers, are saltwater fish. There have been sightings of tarpon in Lake Harney.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Man, and a lot of these, they stay in—pretty low to the, like the lake bed? So they’re pretty much out of sight a lot, right? Like the stingrays and the eels.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah, they’re bottom-dwellers.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Yeah. So, a lot of people wouldn’t know that they’re there.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>That’s right. I mean, a stingray can swim clear to the surface. There are stingrays in the ocean, where they jump clear of the water. But these stingrays, if you’re not looking for them, you basically don’t know they’re there. But you don’t want to step on one of them, brother, ‘cause he’ll put that spike in your ankle. And these aren’t large stingrays, like in the ocean. They’re only about—a big one might be a foot to 14 inches wide—would be a big one.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>[<em>laughs</em>] Learned something new.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>They’re a nuisance on a trot liner, ‘cause if you don’t float that trot line up off the bottom, where they’ll swim under it. If you put that bait on the bottom, my gosh, you’ll have a whole string, trot.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Do they ever get caught in the traps, or like eels ever get in those traps?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>That’s a good question. There are actually—some of the commercial fishermen, which I never did, they have what they call “eel pots.” They have designed traps to actually catch the eels here, and they send them to England. They eat a lot of eels in England. They do some kind of jelly with our eels or something crazy. I don’t know. But he’s called the American eel. He’s harmless. And a big one would be probably two and a half feet, I guess. But they actually—it seems like they have actually shut down the eeling in Lake Monroe, for some reason. Probably population’s down. I don’t know what it is, but for a long time, the commercial fisherman was putting out eel pots, or eel traps, and trapping the American eel as well.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Wow. Well, to—let me just ask you one last question, then. Kind of on a personal note. Do you have any—well, could you just tell me—it seems like you have a lot of experience on the lakes and the water. Personally, what was your favorite aspect of it? Like nature aspect or just your personal opinion. I would love to know.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Yeah. I’m glad you asked me that, because I have an answer. This is gonna be different than probably any commercial fisherman that you interview. Only because it’s different, not because my opinion is better. I’m a humble guy. I’m not in this for the heroes.</p>
<p class="Body">But, many a night, when I would get through running my trot line, baiting it, sometimes I’d put the trot line out, and then bait it out there and go home. Well sometimes, it might be a full moon or thereabouts—beautiful out there—when I got through working out there. I’d take my boat and I’d go all up in the nooks and crannies with my big light, and watch the wildlife. And I could tell you some alligator stories. An alligator attacked my boat one night, but it was my fault. I provoked him. But it’s too long. I’ll tell you later. But anyway, I would appreciate nature.</p>
<p class="Body">I saw a rabbit one night, on the bank in a place called Woodruff Creek. And the rabbit was on the riverbank eating a piece of grass—just one long piece of grass. He was just sitting there. And you know, a rabbit can eat a piece of grass and never move his hands. He’ll just kind of ingest the whole thing. He was doing that, and the grass was getting shorter and shorter, but the unique thing about this particular rabbit was when I shined the light on him—I wish I had had a camera, photography, the ability to take a picture—there was a halo of mosquitoes around this rabbit that were illuminated by the light. He didn’t pay them any mind at all. They can’t get to his fur, you see. So he was just—they didn’t matter. But the mosquitoes sensed that he was there, but they couldn’t get to him. So the rabbit was eating his grass in the nighttime, and this big giant halo of mosquitoes—not blind mosquitoes, these were bloodsuckers—trying to get to this rabbit. And I just—that picture in my mind will never go away.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Stuck with you?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>He just was having dinner. [<em>laughs</em>]</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, well thank you for talking with us, coming in. Definitely taped a lot of this, so again, thank you for coming in and talking.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin <br /></strong>Well, you know, it’s been a pleasure. But the downside is—I just regret the history that is gonna be missed, because we only had an allotted time to do this. And I’ll still try to put some things together on paper, and you can drop by and give them to Ms. Kim [Nelson] up there or something. I wanna draw you some illustrations as to how the trot lines were made.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta <br /></strong>Oh, that would be great.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>Now I’ve thought about donating that monkey to you guys. I guess I mentioned that earlier. Are you interested in having that machine?</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Motta<br /></strong>Oh, yeah.</p>
<p class="Body"><strong>Martin<br /></strong>It’s about that long.</p>
Coverage
Lake Jesup, Florida
Lake Monroe, Florida
Longwood, Florida
Sanford Boat Works & Marina, Sanford, Florida
Waits' Fish House, Lake Mary, Florida
alligators
American eels
Archie Smith
Bill Belleville
Black Hammock Fish Camp
boating the line
Bobby Martin
Camay soaps
catfish
catfish farming
catfish farms
catfishing
Cecil Dile
Clarence Coir
commercial fishermen
commercial fishing
Daniel Motta
Dog Track Road
eel pots
eeling
electrolysis action
fish
fish traps
fishers
fishing
fishing empty hooks
game wardens
gators
hoop nets
hyacinths
jump lining
Lake Harney
Lake Jesup
Lake Monroe
Longwood
monkey fishing
monkey machines
Mullet Lake Park
Museum of Seminole County History
oxidation
pesticides
poaching
pollution
Sanford
Sanford Boat Works & Marina
ship stores
shotgun houses
shrimp
shrimp trawls
shrimping
skip jacks
snails
SR 17-92
St. Johns River
State Road 17-92
stay lining
stingrays
Tampa
trot lines
Tuskawilla Road
Vietnam War
Waits' Fish House
Woodruff Creek
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Dublin Core
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Title
Sanford Riverfront Collection
Description
The Sanford Riverfront Collection consists of images depicting the history and significance of Lake Monroe and the St. Johns River to the City of Sanford, Florida. The waterways that surround Sanford have provided transportation, commerce, defense, and leisure activities for the city's citizens and visitors since its creation in 1877.
Contributor
<a href="http://www.thehistorycenter.org/research/library" target="_blank">Orange County Regional History Center</a>
<a href="http://sanfordhistory.tripod.com/index.html" target="_blank">Sanford Historical Society, Inc.</a>
<a href="http://www.sanfordfl.gov/index.aspx?page=456" target="_blank">Sanford Museum</a>
<a href="http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/" target="_blank">State Library and Archives of Florida</a>
Alternative Title
Riverfront Collection
Subject
Sanford (Fla.)
Lake Monroe (Seminole County and Volusia County, Fla.)
Riverfronts
Waterfronts--Florida
Is Part Of
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/16" target="_blank">Sanford Collection</a>, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Language
eng
Type
Collection
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Curator
Marra, Katherine
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
External Reference
<em>The Seminole Herald</em><span>. <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/52633016" target="_blank"><em>Sanford: Our First 125 Years</em></a></span><span>. [Sanford, FL]: The Herald, 2002.</span>
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <a href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples of still images are: paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type "text" to images of textual materials.
Original Format
1 color postcard
Physical Dimensions
9 x 14 centimeter
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Title
Water Hyacinths
Alternative Title
Water Hyacinths
Subject
Waterfront Districts
Lakes & ponds
Lake Monroe (Seminole County and Volusia County, Fla.)
Postcards--Florida
Water transporation
Water hyacinth--Florida
Description
Postcard of the water hyacinths in Lake Monroe near Sanford. Lake Monroe is a lake that is part of the St. Johns River system in Florida and is also the eigth largest lake in the Orlando metropolitan area. Sanford is located on its northern shore and DeBary and Deltona are located along its northern shore. Two major roadways, State Road 415 and Interstate, run near the lake. Lake Monroe also formes the border of Seminole County and Volusia County.
Abstract
Postmarked twice: February 23, 1906, Crescent City, Fla. and February 26, 1906, Norwalk, Conn. Undivided back. Publisher no.: No.1091. Publisher's logo printed on back.
Creator
Huld, Frank
Source
Original 9 x 14 centimeter color postcard by Frank Huld: Postcard Collection, call number PC5052, Florida Photographic Collection, <a title="State Archives of Florida" href="http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/index_Researchers.cfm" target="_blank">State Library and Archives of Florida</a>, Tallahassee, Florida.
Publisher
<a title="State Archives of Florida" href="http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/index_Researchers.cfm" target="_blank">State Library and Archives of Florida</a>
Date Created
ca. 1903-1906
Date Submitted
1906-02
Is Format Of
Digital reproduction of original 9 x 14 centimeter color postcard by Frank Huld on Florida Memory Project: Postcard Collection, call number PC5052, Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida. <a title="Water hyacinths - Lake Monroe, Sanford, Florida" href="http://floridamemory.com/items/show/162965" target="_blank">http://floridamemory.com/items/show/162965</a>.
Format
image/jpeg
Extent
57 KB
Medium
9 x 14 centimeter color postcard
Language
eng
Type
Still Image
Coverage
Sanford, Florida
Spatial Coverage
28.813243, -81.261116
Temporal Coverage
1903-01-01/1906-02-28
Accrual Method
Deposit
Rights Holder
Copyright to this resource is held by the <a title="State Archives of Florida" href="http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/index_Researchers.cfm" target="_blank">State Library and Archives of Florida</a>, and is provided here by <a title="RICHES of Central Florida" href="http://riches.cah.ucf.edu/" target="_blank">RICHES of Central Florida</a> for educational purposes only.
Curator
Cepero, Laura
Digital Collection
<a title="Florida Memory Project" href="http://www.floridamemory.com/" target="_blank">Florida Memory Project</a>
<a title="RICHES MI" href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/map/" target="_blank">RICHES MI</a>
Source Repository
<a title="State Archives of Florida" href="http://dlis.dos.state.fl.us/index_Researchers.cfm" target="_blank">State Library and Archives of Florida</a>
External Reference
Sanford Historical Society (Fla.). <em>Sanford</em>. Charleston, SC: Arcadia, 2003.
"<a title="Monroe Harbour Marina" href="http://www.monroeharbour.com/" target="_blank">Monroe Harbour Marina</a>"
External Reference Title
<a title="Sanford" href="http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/53015288" target="_blank"><em>Sanford</em></a>
"<a title="Monroe Harbour Marina" href="http://www.monroeharbour.com/" target="_blank">Monroe Harbour Marina</a>"
Transcript
No. 1091. Frunz[?] Huld[?] Publisher New York.
Water Hyacinths, Lake Monroe, Sanford, Florida.
Is Part Of
<a title="Postcard Collection" href="http://floridamemory.com/photographiccollection/collections/?id=36" target="_blank">Postcard Collection</a>, Florida Photographic Collection, State Library and Archives of Florida, Tallahassee, Florida.
<a href="https://richesmi.cah.ucf.edu/omeka2/collections/show/10" target="_blank">Sanford Riverfront Collection</a>, Sanford Collection, Seminole County Collection, RICHES of Central Florida.
Audience Education Level
SS.K.A.1.2; SS.1.A.1.1; SS.2.A.1.1; SS.3.A.1.1; SS.3.A.1.2; SS.4.A.1.1; SS.4.G.1.1; SS.5.A.1.1; SS.6.W.1.3; SS.8.A.1.2; SS.8.A.1.5; SS.912.A.1.2; SS.912.A.1.4 SS.912.W.1.3
Mediator
History Teacher
Geography Teacher
Provenance
Originally created and owned by Frank Huld.
boat
hyacinths
postcard
riverfront