This time from the Miami Herald, We have altered the land so we can be productive and live here, and today, and in the future, we try the best we can to put some of the water back on the land to clean it and bring all back to health.
Also this article is shared as is the official year anniversary of the St Lucie Canal. Chillilngworth Is the Developer. Lucie canal and containing 14, acres of land and prairie. Palm City is situate on the shore of the south fork of the St. Lucie river, and its inhabitants have access to the other bank by means of the Palm City bridge, and to Stuart two miles away, by means of a hard surface road.
Another road, to the south, connects with the Dixie highway at a considerable distance below Stuart. The Palm City drainage district was formed recently to supplement the work of drainage begun and achieved by the Palm Beach County Land company, original owner and developer of the Palm City Farms, C.
Chillingworth, attorney, of West Palm Beach, is owner of the Palm Beach County Farms company and retains about acres of the original 10, acre tract. The remainder has been sold to settlers.
There are 28 citrus groves in Palm City Farms, comprising acres. The largest of these, the grove owned by the Niagara Fruit company, contains acres, and is said to be the largest citrus grove on the east coast of Florida. There are also considerable plantings of avocados and one guava grove in the drainage district, which takes in 6, acres not in the Palm Beach Farms.
