St. Augustine in the 1930s and 1940s
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The Great Depression came early to St. Augustine with the end of the Florida land boom in 1926, followed by the stock market collapse in 1929. Hotels closed, a major bank failed, subdivisions folded, and tourism was reduced to a trickle. The city's main employer, the Florida East Coast Railway, went into receivership in 1931, and public works projects sought to bring relief to the unemployed. The economy slowly improved toward the end of the 1930s,...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1467103950
ISBN13:9781467103954
Release Date:October 2019
Publisher:Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Length:128 Pages
Weight:1.82 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 6.5" x 9.1"
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