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A documentary history of Jewell, Florida, a lost community of
everglades pioneers founded in 1885 by Samuel and Fannie James, an
African American couple, believed to be former slaves. Jewell
eventually grew into the City of Lake Worth, its earliest history
largely forgotten. Pioneers of Jewell rediscovers the world of
Fannie and Samuel James in the context of their neighbors and the
wider context of Race and Segregation in the aftermath of the
American Civil War. For the first time, groundbreaking research
reveals the flight of Fannie's family from North Carolina to Ohio
during the Civil War along the track of the Underground Railroad,
and traces the Jameses' trek back south through Tallahassee and
Cocoa, Florida, before taking up a homestead on the western shore
of Lake Worth. Once in South Florida, the Jameses overcame many of
the hindrances of race in those troubled times, and became the
nucleus of a vibrant, mostly white, farming community. Meet Dr.
Harry Stites, a well-known physician who gave up a successful
medical practice in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania to 'rough it' on the
South Florida frontier. Meet Squire John C. Hoagland, the area's
first Justice of the Peace, who loved boating and spent much of his
time sailing between Palm Beach and Jewell. Meet Michael Merkle, a
hermit who lived an austere life in a lean-to west of Jewell,
eating unseasoned fish and berries. Merkle was rumored to be a
defrocked Catholic priest and was known to walk the pinewoods
chanting in Latin when he thought no one was listening. Relying
upon primary historical sources, Pioneers of Jewell reveals: Bios
of a dozen previously unknown Jewell pioneers. The dispute that
challenged the Jameses' land holdings. An in-depth look at the
Jameses' stunning financial success. Investigation of the Jameses'
slave background. The establishment of the Osborne Colored
District. Klu Klux Klan activity in Lake Worth during the 1920s.
The fate of Jewell and its pioneers.
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