Clara is an area in
Taylor County,
on the border with
Dixie County, Florida
Dixie County is a county located in the Big Bend region of the northern part of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 16,759. Its county seat is Cross City.
History
Dixie County was created in 1921 from the s ...
. It is between
Perry
Perry or pear cider is an alcoholic beverage made from fermented pears, traditionally in England (particularly Gloucestershire, Herefordshire, and Worcestershire), parts of South Wales, France (especially Normandy and Anjou), Canada, Austral ...
and
Cross City on
U.S. Route 98 in Florida. The area around Clara was home to
Putnam Lumber Company operations in the early 1920s, a business that became infamous for its use of
convict lease
Convict leasing was a system of forced penal labor in the United States, penal labor that was practiced historically in the Southern United States before it was formally Convict leasing#End of the system, abolished during the 20th century. Un ...
d labor after the brutal death by whipping of
Martin Tabert.
Marjory Stoneman Douglas
Marjory Stoneman Douglas (April 7, 1890 – May 14, 1998) was an American journalist, author, women's suffrage advocate, and conservationist known for her staunch defense of the Everglades against efforts to drain it and reclaim land for d ...
wrote a poem, ''Martin Tabert of North Dakota is Walking Florida Now'', about the killing.
References
Unincorporated communities in Taylor County, Florida
Unincorporated communities in Dixie County, Florida
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