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Chase Family Papers: A Guide to the Collections
The Chase Family Papers
trace the early development of Florida’s
commercial citrus industry. Covering the
late 19th century and the first three-quarters of the 20th
century, the papers document the conversion of the Florida peninsula from pine forest and
cattle ranches into prime citrus groves and other enterprises. In 1884 Sidney Octavius
Chase and his brother Joshua Coffin Chase founded Chase & Co., a company
destined to dominate Florida
citrus culture for many years. The
Chases were great experimenters and great entrepreneurs, pioneering in the
field of citrus through the dangerous freezes of the 1890s, and making Florida
competitive with the emerging orange production of California.
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Updated August 8,
2006
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