Redland Farm Life School
The Redland Farm Life School, also known as the Redland Farmlife School, is a historic former school in Redland, Florida, Redland, Florida, in southern Miami-Dade County. Opened in 1916, it consolidated seven one-room schoolhouses in the area and was at the time the second largest rural consolidated school in the country. History In 1916, William Anderson, the proprietor of the William Anderson General Merchandise Store, Anderson's Corner general store, donated 10 acres of land at the northeast corner of SW 248th Street (Coconut Palm Drive) and SW 162nd Avenue (Farm Life School Road) to the Miami-Dade County Public Schools, Dade County School Board for the construction of a new consolidated school. Dr. Hyram Byrd, the assistant state health officer of Florida, who came to Dade County from Jacksonville, Florida, Jacksonville for his health and to experiment with the use of rattlesnake venom as an antidote to snake bites, was instrumental in securing an agricultural school land gr ...
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Redland, Florida
Redland, long known also as the Redlands or the Redland, is a historic unincorporated community and agricultural area in Miami-Dade County, Florida, located about southwest of downtown Miami and just northwest of Homestead, Florida. It is unique in that it constitutes a large farming belt directly adjoining what is now the seventh most populous major metropolitan area in the United States. Named for the pockets of red clay that cover a layer of oolitic limestone, Redland produces a variety of tropical fruits, many of which do not grow elsewhere in the continental United States. The area also contains a large concentration of ornamental nurseries. The landscape is dotted with u-pick'em fields, coral rock (oolite) walls, and the original clapboard homes of early settlers and other historic early twentieth century structures. Etymology Through the early part of the 20th century, what was known as the "Redland District" – frequently also called "the Redlands" or just "the Redlan ...
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