Pennsuco is a former rural community in Miami-Dade County, Florida, along the Miami Canal and

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. It was established in 1920 by the Pennsylvania Sugar Company, which built a sugar cane

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and sugar mill, and a self-contained community housing employees and their families. The sugar operation failed by 1925, largely due to a series of floods and killing frosts which ruined crops; the land was then adapted for regular truck farming until 1931, when the company ended operations at the site. A post office operated here until 1933, and the area continued as a farming community. Today the area has become suburban, with the northern portion annexed by

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and the southern portion industrialized and unpopulated. Virtually all of Pennsuco's old structures are no longer standing, but the name survives with Pennsuco Industrial Park and the Pennsuco Canal.

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Unincorporated communities in Miami-Dade County, Florida Unincorporated communities in Florida {{MiamiDadeCountyFL-geo-stub