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Sebring founds the city in 1912 on a circular plan and the Atlantic Coast Line Haines City Branch reaches the townsite the same June; the state charters the city in 1913 and it becomes the Highlands County seat at the county's creation in 1921 [WSEB][SEBCH][WHCB]. 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The Haines City Branch of 1912 and the Seaboard line of 1925 make it a Ridge citrus shipping town [WHCB][WFWN].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "ridge", "placeYear": 1886, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -81.5033, 27.5944 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "AVP", "WAVP", "WHCB", "WFWN" ], "confidence": "High", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 4, "distinct": 4, "betweenness": 0.0245, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "lakeplacid", "name": "Lake Placid", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Lake Placid, Highlands County", "year": 1925, "genre": "the Caladium Capital of the World, as reported", "female": "", "status": "Operating town, population 2,360 at the 2020 census.", "note": "The Atlantic Coast Line stop at Lake Stearns precedes the town, which incorporates on 1 December 1925; Melvil Dewey proposes the renaming and the Town of Lake Placid is chartered on 6 June 1927 [WLP]. Fourteen caladium farms on about 1,200 acres around the town produce 98 percent of the world's caladium bulbs, as reported [WLP].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "ridge", "placeYear": 1925, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -81.3736, 27.3003 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WLP", "CALH" ], "confidence": "High", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 8, "distinct": 8, "betweenness": 0.0887, "personnelBetweenness": 0.1274, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "frostproof", "name": "Frostproof", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Frostproof, Polk County (Ridge extension)", "year": 1921, "genre": "Ridge extension citrus town", "female": "", "status": "Operating city, population 2,877 at the 2020 census; reported in the module's optional Polk extension, not the six county core.", "note": "Settled in the 1880s as Keystone City and renamed on the 1892 post office application as a claim that citrus there would escape frost; the Great Freeze of 1895 kills most of the town's citrus anyway [WFRO]. Rail arrives in 1912, the city incorporates in 1921, and the town becomes the seat of the Latt Maxcy and Ben Hill Griffin citrus empires [WFRO][LMH].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "ridge", "placeYear": 1921, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -81.5253, 27.7492 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WFRO", "CIMFCM", "LMH" ], "confidence": "High", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 5, "distinct": 5, "betweenness": 0.0457, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0255, "outsideShare": 0.4 } }, { "id": "fortmeade", "name": "Fort Meade", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Fort Meade, Polk County (Ridge extension)", "year": 1849, "genre": "oldest city in Polk County", "female": "", "status": "Operating city, population 5,100 at the 2020 census; reported in the module's optional Polk extension.", "note": "Established in 1849 on the military road from Fort Brooke to Fort Pierce and incorporated in 1885; the Florida Southern Railway's Charlotte Harbor Division runs through in 1886 [WFM][WFSR]. Peace River Packing Company packs citrus here from 1928 and the phosphate district works the ground to the west [WFM][CFAN2].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "ridge", "placeYear": 1849, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -81.7939, 27.745 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WFM", "WFSR", "CFAN2" ], "confidence": "High", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 3, "distinct": 3, "betweenness": 0.0514, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0225, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "wauchula", "name": "Wauchula", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Wauchula, Hardee County", "year": 1902, "genre": "Hardee County seat", "female": "", "status": "Operating county seat, population 4,900 at the 2020 census.", "note": "The Florida Southern Railway's 1886 arrival turns the Fort Hartsuff settlement into a commercial center; the city incorporates on 29 September 1902 and becomes the seat of new Hardee County in 1921 [FHBW][WWAU]. The town is the seat of the Carlton ranching family and has been called the cucumber capital of the world, as reported [WWAU][TBBW1].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "peace", "placeYear": 1902, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -81.81, 27.5469 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WWAU", "FHBW", "WFSR" ], "confidence": "Medium", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 3, "distinct": 3, "betweenness": 0.0448, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0392, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "bowlinggreen", "name": "Bowling Green", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Bowling Green, Hardee County", "year": 1886, "genre": "citrus and phosphate town", "female": "", "status": "Operating city, population 2,405 at the 2020 census.", "note": "A. M. Chester of Bowling Green, Kentucky homesteads in 1883 and gives the Florida Southern Railway 40 acres in 1886 to secure the line; the city incorporates in 1927 on an economy of citrus and phosphate [WBG].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "peace", "placeYear": 1886, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -81.8244, 27.6381 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WBG", "WFSR" ], "confidence": "Medium", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 1, "distinct": 1, "betweenness": 0.0, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "zolfosprings", "name": "Zolfo Springs", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Zolfo Springs, Hardee County", "year": 1886, "genre": "Peace River crossing of the Cracker Trail", "female": "", "status": "Operating town, population 1,737 at the 2020 census.", "note": "The Florida Southern Railway builds through in 1886 and the depot and post office of that year create the town, incorporated as Zolfo in 1904 and renamed Zolfo Springs in 1909 [WZS]. Its early prosperity comes from the cattle route from Bradenton to Fort Pierce used since 1850 [WZS].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "peace", "placeYear": 1886, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -81.7969, 27.4961 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WZS", "WFSR" ], "confidence": "Medium", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 2, "distinct": 2, "betweenness": 0.0145, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "arcadia", "name": "Arcadia", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Arcadia, DeSoto County", "year": 1886, "genre": "DeSoto County seat, cattle and citrus town", "female": "", "status": "Operating county seat, population 7,420 at the 2020 census.", "note": "The Florida Southern Railway builds through in 1886 on its way to Punta Gorda and the boom incorporates the town in 1887; it remains the county seat through the 1921 division that splits off Charlotte, Glades, Hardee and Highlands counties [WARC][WFSR]. The town hosts the state's oldest rodeo and the Heartland's operating juice plant [DCHS][JAX23].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "peace", "placeYear": 1886, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -81.8681, 27.2208 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WARC", "WFSR", "DCHS" ], "confidence": "Medium", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 9, "distinct": 9, "betweenness": 0.2193, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0228, "outsideShare": 0.2222 } }, { "id": "okeechobeetown", "name": "Okeechobee", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Okeechobee, Okeechobee County", "year": 1915, "genre": "Okeechobee County seat, cattle and lake town", "female": "", "status": "Operating county seat, population 5,254 at the 2020 census.", "note": "Peter Raulerson settles Taylor Creek in 1896 and the Tantie settlement becomes Okeechobee when the Florida East Coast Railway lays out the townsite; the first train arrives 4 January 1915 and the city incorporates on 4 June 1915 [LAM4][WOKE]. The town becomes the county seat in 1917 and the commercial center of the north shore, shipping winter vegetables and lake fish [WOKC][WOKE].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "okee", "placeYear": 1915, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -80.8303, 27.2467 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WOKE", "WOKC", "LAM4", "WKVL" ], "confidence": "Medium", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 10, "distinct": 10, "betweenness": 0.1168, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0359, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "moorehaven", "name": "Moore Haven", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Moore Haven, Glades County", "year": 1915, "genre": "Glades County seat on the Caloosahatchee waterway", "female": "", "status": "Operating county seat, population 1,566 at the 2020 census.", "note": "James A. Moore of Seattle establishes and plats the town in 1915 on the lake's southwest shore, opened by the Disston era Caloosahatchee dredging; it incorporates in 1917 and the railroad's Muck Special arrives 13 May 1918 [WMH]. The 1926 hurricane devastates the town and helps drive federal dike building; its cooperative sugar mill runs from 1962 to 1977 [WMH][JMFS].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "glades", "placeYear": 1915, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -81.0983, 26.8339 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WMH", "JMFS", "WDIS" ], "confidence": "Medium", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 7, "distinct": 7, "betweenness": 0.0526, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0183, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "clewistontown", "name": "Clewiston", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Clewiston, Hendry County", "year": 1920, "genre": "America's Sweetest Town", "female": "", "status": "Operating city, population 7,327 at the 2020 census, headquarters town of U.S. Sugar.", "note": "John O'Brien of Philadelphia and Alonzo Clewis of Tampa buy the tract in 1920, commission a town plan and build the Moore Haven and Clewiston Railway to reach the Atlantic Coast Line; the city incorporates in 1925 [WCLE]. Sugar builds the town: Southern Sugar's 1929 mill and then U.S. Sugar from 1931 anchor its economy to this day [WCLE][USSH].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "glades", "placeYear": 1920, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -80.9394, 26.7483 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WCLE", "WSCFE", "USSH" ], "confidence": "High", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 4, "distinct": 4, "betweenness": 0.0124, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0092, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "labelle", "name": "LaBelle", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "LaBelle, Hendry County", "year": 1895, "genre": "Hendry County seat on the Caloosahatchee", "female": "", "status": "Operating county seat, population 4,966 at the 2020 census.", "note": "Cattle king Francis Asbury Hendry plats the river settlement in 1895 and names it for his daughters Laura and Belle; it becomes the seat of new Hendry County in 1923 and is chartered as a city in 1925 [WLAB][WHEN]. Henry Ford buys 7,000 acres from E. E. Goodno here in May 1924, and the town hosts the Swamp Cabbage Festival each February [WLAB].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "glades", "placeYear": 1895, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -81.4447, 26.7397 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WLAB", "WHEN" ], "confidence": "Medium", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 5, "distinct": 5, "betweenness": 0.0265, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0362, "outsideShare": 0.2 } }, { "id": "belleglade", "name": "Belle Glade", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Belle Glade, Palm Beach County", "year": 1928, "genre": "Muck City; Her Soil is Her Fortune", "female": "", "status": "Operating city, population 16,698 at the 2020 census, the largest of the Glades farm towns.", "note": "Built on drained muck in 1925 as Hillsboro and incorporated 9 April 1928, the town is reached by the FEC lake shore extension by 1923 and anchored by the state's Everglades Experiment Station, authorized in 1921 [WBGL][WKVL][BGH]. The 16 September 1928 hurricane kills about 611 people in Belle Glade alone and drives construction of the Hoover Dike [WBGL][BGH].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "glades", "placeYear": 1928, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -80.6431, 26.6928 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WBGL", "BGH", "WKVL" ], "confidence": "High", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 11, "distinct": 11, "betweenness": 0.1627, "personnelBetweenness": 0.1116, "outsideShare": 0.0909 } }, { "id": "pahokee", "name": "Pahokee", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Pahokee, Palm Beach County", "year": 1922, "genre": "lake shore sugar town", "female": "", "status": "Operating city, population 5,524 at the 2020 census.", "note": "Incorporated in 1922 on drained muck, Pahokee ships winter vegetables north in refrigerated trains and is called the Winter Vegetable Capital of the World in the 1930s, as reported by a 1939 federal guide [WPAH]. After Cuban supply is cut, agriculture shifts to mechanized sugarcane around the Osceola Farms mill of 1960 [WPAH][JMFS].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "glades", "placeYear": 1922, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -80.6619, 26.8203 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WPAH", "JMFS", "WKVL" ], "confidence": "Medium", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 3, "distinct": 3, "betweenness": 0.0162, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0088, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "southbaytown", "name": "South Bay", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "South Bay, Palm Beach County", "year": 1941, "genre": "the Crossroads of South Florida", "female": "", "status": "Operating city, population 4,860 at the 2020 census.", "note": "Settlement begins at the North New River Canal completed in 1912 and the town incorporates in 1941 at the crossing of State Road 80 and US 27 [PBCH2][WSBY]. The Okeelanta mill complex south of town, begun by a 1946 cooperative, is its dominant industry [JMFS][CLUIO].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "glades", "placeYear": 1941, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -80.7383, 26.69 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WSBY", "PBCH2", "JMFS" ], "confidence": "Medium", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 3, "distinct": 3, "betweenness": 0.006, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0163, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "canalpointtown", "name": "Canal Point", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Canal Point, Palm Beach County", "year": 1909, "genre": "USDA sugarcane station community", "female": "", "status": "Operating unincorporated community, population 344 at the 2020 census.", "note": "The first settlement on the lake's east side, named for the West Palm Beach Canal; the Southern States Land and Timber Company plants sugarcane here from 1917 and by 1922 the community holds 800 of the 900 cane acres in the Glades [WCP][PBCH1]. The USDA sugarcane breeding station of 1920 remains its defining institution [ARSCP].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "glades", "placeYear": 1909, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -80.6256, 26.8619 ], "geoBasis": "town coordinates from the reference source", "sources": [ "WCP", "PBCH1", "ARSCP" ], "confidence": "High", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 2, "distinct": 2, "betweenness": 0.0056, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "bryanttown", "name": "Bryant", "kind": "town", "clade": "towns", "city": "Bryant, Palm Beach County", "year": 1962, "genre": "demolished sugar mill town", "female": "", "status": "The community no longer exists; the federal government takes control of the site in 2011 and the town is demolished in 2016.", "note": "An unincorporated company community northeast of Pahokee built around the U.S. Sugar Bryant Sugar House of 1962 [WBRY]. The mill closes in 2007, and the town that served it is gone within a decade [WBRY][WUSS].", "end": 2016, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "glades", "placeYear": 1962, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": [ -80.63, 26.86 ], "geoBasis": "hand placed near Pahokee on the reference description", "sources": [ "WBRY", "WUSS" ], "confidence": "Medium", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 1, "distinct": 1, "betweenness": 0.0, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "ussugar", "name": "U.S. Sugar Corporation", "kind": "business", "clade": "sugar", "city": "Clewiston, Hendry County", "year": 1931, "genre": "the largest sugarcane producer of the Glades", "female": "anchor", "status": "Operating; farms about 245,000 acres of cane, corn, citrus and vegetables and runs the Clewiston mill and refinery, the railroad, Southern Gardens Citrus and Imperial Sugar.", "note": "Charles Stewart Mott buys the assets of the bankrupt Southern Sugar Company in 1931 and renames the operation United States Sugar Corporation; the first harvest of 1932 yields 292,228 tons of cane [USSH][JMFS]. An employee stock ownership plan forms in 1983 and the company goes private through it in 1987 [WUSS][USSH]. 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Dahlberg's company acquires 130,000 acres in the upper Everglades from 1925 and relocates the failed Pennsylvania Sugar mill from Pennsuco to Clewiston in 1927; the Clewiston Sugar House opens 19 January 1929 [JMFS][USS25][FHS29]. Receivership follows in fall 1930 and Charles Stewart Mott buys the assets in 1931 [JMFS][USSH].", "end": 1931, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": "historic or successor", "cityId": "glades", "placeYear": 1925, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": null, "geoBasis": "no pin; clustered at its hub region", "sources": [ "JMFS", "FHS29", "USSH", "USS25" ], "confidence": "High", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 3, "distinct": 3, "betweenness": 0.0081, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0046, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "fcrystals", "name": "Florida Crystals Corporation", "kind": "business", "clade": "sugar", "city": "West Palm Beach and the Glades communities", "year": 1960, "genre": "the Fanjul family sugar group", "female": "", "status": "Operating; farms about 190,000 acres in Palm Beach County, runs the Okeelanta and Osceola mills, a refinery, Florida's only rice mill and a biomass plant, and co owns ASR Group.", "note": "The Fanjul family founds the business in Pahokee in 1960 and acquires Gulf and Western's Florida operations in 1984 to 1985, adding about 90,000 acres through Okeelanta [FCJ][ENCFC][JMFS]. With the Sugar Cane Growers Cooperative it buys the Yonkers refinery in 1998, beginning American Sugar Refining, and its two mills grind more than 6.5 million tons of cane a year, as the company reports [ENCFC][FCM]. 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On 6 January 2025 the company announces the wind down of Alico Citrus, citing greening and hurricane losses after a decade in which its production fell about 73 percent; the Tropicana agreement ends in May 2025 and grove land moves to sale, lease and development [ALPR25][AL10K][ALSEC3]. The module carries Alico at 27,847 acres inside the six core counties [MOD].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": "Alico, Inc. 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The parent reports about forty thousand tree planted acres in more than a dozen grove locations [KRC][SBCON].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": "publicly verified operating", "cityId": "outside", "placeYear": 1998, "placeYearBasis": "founding year", "geo": null, "geoBasis": "no pin; clustered at its hub region", "sources": [ "KRCH", "KRT", "KRC", "SBCON", "DNBCC" ], "confidence": "High", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": null, "metrics": { "degree": 3, "distinct": 3, "betweenness": 0.3095, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0066, "outsideShare": 1.0 } }, { "id": "southerngardens", "name": "Southern Gardens Citrus", "kind": "business", "clade": "citrus", "city": "Hendry County", "year": 1994, "genre": "U.S. Sugar's citrus subsidiary", "female": "", "status": "Operating groves, a nursery and juice storage; the plant no longer processes fruit.", "note": "U.S. Sugar founds Southern Gardens in 1994 and the operation grows past 32,000 acres; at peak the Hendry County plant processes up to 20 million boxes a year [CIM19][USSH]. 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clustered at its hub region", "sources": [ "SEAGG1", "SEAGG2" ], "confidence": "High", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": "personnel connector", "metrics": { "degree": 2, "distinct": 2, "betweenness": 0.0039, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0015, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "johnkiernan", "name": "John Kiernan", "kind": "person", "clade": "citrus", "city": "Fort Myers", "year": null, "genre": "the executive who ended Alico's citrus century", "female": "", "status": "Serving as Alico's president and chief executive.", "note": "He announces the January 2025 strategic transformation, stating that citrus production fell about 73 percent in ten years and that growing citrus in Florida is no longer economically viable for the company [ALPR25][CIM25B].", "end": null, "members": null, "entity": null, "acres": null, "evidence_class": null, "cityId": "outside", "placeYear": 2025, "placeYearBasis": "first documented activity", "geo": null, "geoBasis": "no pin; clustered at its hub region", "sources": [ "ALPR25", "CIM25B" ], "confidence": "High", "statusAsOf": "12 September 2026", "personClass": "founding or core member", "metrics": { "degree": 1, "distinct": 1, "betweenness": 0.0, "personnelBetweenness": 0.0, "outsideShare": 0.0 } }, { "id": "lykes", "name": "Lykes Bros Inc", "kind": "business", "clade": "cattle", "city": "Brighton Ranch, Glades and Highlands counties; 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The module's owner table carries Lykes Bros at 337,036 acres inside the six core counties, and the region's largest proportional gap on a logarithmic scale falls immediately below it: Lykes stands alone [MOD]. 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"produced", "years": "1929", "note": "builds the mill opened 19 January 1929" }, { "s": "clewistonmill", "t": "ussugar", "rel": "member", "years": "1931 to present", "note": "the company's flagship mill and refinery" }, { "s": "ussugar", "t": "bryantmill", "rel": "produced", "years": "1962 to 2007", "note": "builds and runs the Bryant mill" }, { "s": "bryantmill", "t": "bryanttown", "rel": "spawned", "years": "1962 to 2007", "note": "the mill anchors the company community" }, { "s": "bryantmill", "t": "clewistonmill", "rel": "left_for", "years": "2007", "note": "processing consolidates at Clewiston after the closure" }, { "s": "ussugar", "t": "southerngardens", "rel": "spawned", "years": "1994 to present", "note": "the citrus subsidiary in Hendry County" }, { "s": "ussugar", "t": "scfe", "rel": "spawned", "years": "1994 to present", "note": "the shortline railroad subsidiary" }, { "s": "ussugar", "t": "imperialsugar", "rel": "spawned", "years": "2022 to present", "note": "the 315 million dollar purchase completed 30 November 2022 after the failed federal challenge" }, { "s": "ussugar", "t": "sfwmd", "rel": "left_for", "years": "2008 to 2010", "note": "26,800 acres sold for 194 million dollars, closed October 2010: about 17,900 citrus acres in Hendry County and 8,900 cane acres in Palm Beach County, the remnant of the 187,000 acre River of Grass deal announced June 2008" }, { "s": "ussugar", "t": "clewistontown", "rel": "side", "years": "1931 to present", "note": "headquarters town of the company" }, { "s": "scfe", "t": "clewistonmill", "rel": "support", "years": "1994 to present", "note": "hauls harvested cane to the mill from around the lake" }, { "s": "fanjulsr", "t": "osceolafarms", "rel": "founded", "years": "1960", "note": "buys the 4,000 acre property for 640,000 dollars and installs the Louisiana mills" }, { "s": "fanjulsr", "t": "fcrystals", "rel": "founded", "years": "1960", "note": "the family enterprise that grows into Florida Crystals" }, { "s": "fanjulalfy", "t": "fcrystals", "rel": "member", "years": "1980 to present", "note": "chief executive of the family group" }, { "s": "fanjulpepe", "t": "fcrystals", "rel": "member", "years": "late 1960s to present", "note": "co leader of the 1984 Gulf and Western acquisition" }, { "s": "osceolafarms", "t": "fcrystals", "rel": "member", "years": "1960 to present", "note": "the original farming and milling unit" }, { "s": "osceolafarms", "t": "pahokee", "rel": "side", "years": "1960 to present", "note": "mainstay employer of the town" }, { "s": "fcrystals", "t": "okeelanta", "rel": "spawned", "years": "1984 to present", "note": "the Gulf and Western acquisition adds about 90,000 acres and the South Bay mill complex" }, { "s": "okeelanta", "t": "newhopesugar", "rel": "side", "years": "1990s to 2000s", "note": "affiliated farming company named beside it in district litigation records" }, { "s": "okeelanta", "t": "newhopepower", "rel": "side", "years": "2005 to present", "note": "the cogeneration plant burns the mill's cane fiber" }, { "s": "newhopepower", "t": "fcrystals", "rel": "member", "years": "2005 to present", "note": "operated as Florida Crystals" }, { "s": "ricemill", "t": "fcrystals", "rel": "member", "years": "to present", "note": "the company's rice milling arm supports the cane rotation" }, { "s": "ricemill", "t": "belleglade", "rel": "side", "years": "to present", "note": "the mill stands in Belle Glade" }, { "s": "okeelanta", "t": "southbaytown", "rel": "side", "years": "1946 to present", "note": "the mill complex is the town's dominant industry" }, { "s": "fcrystals", "t": "asrgroup", "rel": "founded", "years": "1998 to present", "note": "creates American Sugar Refining beginning with the Yonkers refinery" }, { "s": "scgc", "t": "asrgroup", "rel": "member", "years": "1998 to present", "note": "co owner and marketing outlet of the cooperative's raw sugar" }, { "s": "gladescoop", "t": "moorehaven", "rel": "side", "years": "1961 to 1977", "note": "the cooperative mill at the county seat, closed by Gulf and Western in 1977" }, { "s": "talisman", "t": "sfwmd", "rel": "left_for", "years": "1997 to 1999", "note": "50,960 acres sold to federal and state buyers for 133.5 million dollars for Everglades restoration" }, { "s": "talisman", "t": "southbaytown", "rel": "side", "years": "1962 to 1999", "note": "the plantation and mill near South Bay" }, { "s": "talisman", "t": "fcrystals", "rel": "collab", "years": "1999 onward", "note": "EAA growers including the Fanjul companies farm portions of the Talisman land under leaseback, as reported" }, { "s": "atlanticsugar", "t": "fcrystals", "rel": "left_for", "years": "2005", "note": "the cane of its 17 growers moves to the Okeelanta and Osceola mills after the closure" }, { "s": "georgewedgworth", "t": "scgc", "rel": "founded", "years": "1960", "note": "founding president and chief executive for over 50 years" }, { "s": "georgewedgworth", "t": "wedgworth", "rel": "member", "years": "1950 to 2013", "note": "joins the family firm after college and leads Wedgworth Farms" }, { "s": "georgewedgworth", "t": "celeryexchange", "rel": "founded", "years": "1950s", "note": "the celery marketers he organizes before the cooperative" }, { "s": "celeryexchange", "t": "scgc", "rel": "precursor", "years": "1950s to 1960", "note": "the same founder's earlier marketing organization" }, { "s": "ruthwedgworth", "t": "wedgworth", "rel": "founded", "years": "1932", "note": "co founder; leads the company from 1938" }, { "s": "ruthwedgworth", "t": "scgc", "rel": "member", "years": "1960", "note": "charter member of the cooperative" }, { "s": "ruthwedgworth", "t": "ffva", "rel": "founded", "years": "1943", "note": "founding member of the association" }, { "s": "hermanwedgworth", "t": "wedgworth", "rel": "founded", "years": "1932", "note": "founds the fertilizer house with Ruth" }, { "s": "hermanwedgworth", "t": "erec", "rel": "member", "years": "1920s to 1932", "note": "the station's first plant pathologist" }, { "s": "erec", "t": "wedgworth", "rel": "spawned", "years": "1932", "note": "its first plant pathologist leaves the station to found the firm" }, { "s": "wedgworth", "t": "scgc", "rel": "member", "years": "1960 to present", "note": "founding member grower" }, { "s": "scgc", "t": "gladeshouse", "rel": "produced", "years": "1962 to present", "note": "the cooperative builds and runs the mill" }, { "s": "scgc", "t": "belleglade", "rel": "side", "years": "1960 to present", "note": "headquarters town of the cooperative" }, { "s": "sugarleague", "t": "canalpointars", "rel": "collab", "years": "about 1960 to present", "note": "industry party to the three way cultivar development agreement" }, { "s": "erec", "t": "canalpointars", "rel": "collab", "years": "about 1960 to present", "note": "university party to the CP cultivar agreement" }, { "s": "canalpointars", "t": "canalpointtown", "rel": "support", "years": "1920 to present", "note": "the defining institution of the community" }, { "s": "erec", "t": "belleglade", "rel": "support", "years": "1921 to present", "note": "the station that unlocked the muck anchors the town" }, { "s": "kingranchfl", "t": "asrgroup", "rel": "collab", "years": "ongoing", "note": "raw sugar marketed through the C and H and Domino brands, per the company" }, { "s": "kingranchfl", "t": "gladeshouse", "rel": "collab", "years": "ongoing", "note": "cane ground and processed at Belle Glade, per the company" }, { "s": "kingranch", "t": "kingranchfl", "rel": "spawned", "years": "1961 to present", "note": "the EAA farm established with 42,000 acres" }, { "s": "ussugar", "t": "eaareservoir", "rel": "precursor", "years": "2010 to present", "note": "the A-2 parcel comes into public ownership through the 2010 purchase" }, { "s": "sfwmd", "t": "eaareservoir", "rel": "produced", "years": "2017 to 2029", "note": "builds the reservoir under the 2017 Senate Bill 10; the treatment area is complete in January 2024" }, { "s": "eaareservoir", "t": "eaa", "rel": "side", "years": "2018 to 2029", "note": "roughly 17,000 acres of the sugar district become water infrastructure" }, { "s": "atlanticland", "t": "alico", "rel": "precursor", "years": "1960", "note": "the railroad land properties spun off become Alico Land Development Company" }, { "s": "bhgjr", "t": "bhginc", "rel": "founded", "years": "1933", "note": "begins with the ten acre wedding gift grove" }, { "s": "bhgjr", "t": "alico", "rel": "member", "years": "1961 to 1990", "note": "board from 1961, majority control 1972, chairman 1973" }, { "s": "bhgjr", "t": "bluehead", "rel": "left_for", "years": "2019", "note": "his estate's 66,128 acres pass to new ownership in a closing through SPP Land" }, { "s": "bhgjr", "t": "crec", "rel": "support", "years": "1982", "note": "the center's Ben Hill Griffin Jr Citrus Hall carries his name" }, { "s": "bhgiii", "t": "alico", "rel": "member", "years": "1990 to 2004", "note": "succeeds his father and serves as chief executive" }, { "s": "bhgiii", "t": "bhginc", "rel": "member", "years": "1990s to 2000s", "note": "chairs the family company" }, { "s": "bhg4", "t": "bhginc", "rel": "member", "years": "to present", "note": "president in the fourth generation" }, { "s": "bhginc", "t": "citrusworld", "rel": "member", "years": "ongoing", "note": "listed grower member from Frostproof" }, { "s": "bhginc", "t": "frostproof", "rel": "side", "years": "1933 to present", "note": "headquarters town" }, { "s": "bhginc", "t": "griffinfert", "rel": "spawned", "years": "documented 2020s", "note": "the fertilizer subsidiary" }, { "s": "maxcy", "t": "maxcycorp", "rel": "founded", "years": "1925", "note": "L. Maxcy Inc; the successor corporation is established 1 May 1963" }, { "s": "maxcy", "t": "fcmutual", "rel": "founded", "years": "1948", "note": "founding president among the five founding fathers" }, { "s": "maxcycorp", "t": "frostproof", "rel": "side", "years": "1925 to present", "note": "packinghouses, groves and the town bank" }, { "s": "alico", "t": "tropicana", "rel": "collab", "years": "2024 to 2025", "note": "orange purchase agreement R641 of April 2024, terminated by mutual consent 23 May 2025" }, { "s": "alicowinddown", "t": "alico", "rel": "member", "years": "2025", "note": "the company's defining transformation event" }, { "s": "greening", "t": "alicowinddown", "rel": "precursor", "years": "2005 to 2025", "note": "greening is the stated core reason, with the hurricanes" }, { "s": "greening", "t": "southerngardens", "rel": "support", "years": "2019", "note": "among the stated reasons processing ceased" }, { "s": "greatfreeze", "t": "freezes", "rel": "precursor", "years": "1895 to 1962", "note": "the first displacement south begins the series" }, { "s": "greatfreeze", "t": "frostproof", "rel": "support", "years": "1895", "note": "kills most of the town's citrus despite the name" }, { "s": "freezes", "t": "duda", "rel": "support", "years": "1980s", "note": "the company expands citrus into southwest Florida after the freezes, one documented response" }, { "s": "fpl", "t": "turnerfoods", "rel": "spawned", "years": "to 1998", "note": "the utility's citrus subsidiary" }, { "s": "turnerfoods", "t": "consolidatedcitrus", "rel": "left_for", "years": "1998", "note": "the groves are acquired at the partnership's formation" }, { "s": "cocacola", "t": "kingranch", "rel": "collab", "years": "1993", "note": "Running W Citrus manages 16,000 acres of Minute Maid groves" }, { "s": "cocacola", "t": "consolidatedcitrus", "rel": "precursor", "years": "1993 to 1998", "note": "the managed groves fold into the new partnership; the reference record dates the grove sale to 1997" }, { "s": "kingranch", "t": "consolidatedcitrus", "rel": "founded", "years": "1998", "note": "merges Running W with Collier Enterprises interests" }, { "s": "cocacola", "t": "cutrale", "rel": "left_for", "years": "1996", "note": "the Plymouth, Auburndale and Leesburg juice plants pass to Cutrale hands" }, { "s": "cocacola", "t": "peaceriverproducts", "rel": "collab", "years": "2020s", "note": "a renewed ten year contract for Minute Maid and Simply products" }, { "s": "peaceriverproducts", "t": "mcdonalds", "rel": "collab", "years": "2020s", "note": "makes the chain's Minute Maid orange juice for the United States and Canada" }, { "s": "joshuacitrus", "t": "arcadia", "rel": "side", "years": "1887 to present", "note": "the family grove, packinghouse and store near the county seat" }, { "s": "peaceriverproducts", "t": "arcadia", "rel": "side", "years": "1991 to present", "note": "the Heartland's operating juice plant" }, { "s": "tropicana", "t": "peaceriverproducts", "rel": "collab", "years": "ongoing", "note": "receives juice and byproducts" }, { "s": "rossi", "t": "tropicana", "rel": "founded", "years": "1947", "note": "founder and inventor of the flash pasteurization process" }, { "s": "lykes", "t": "citrusworld", "rel": "member", "years": "ongoing", "note": "grower member; fruit sold primarily by contract to Florida's Natural" }, { "s": "peaceriverpacking", "t": "citrusworld", "rel": "member", "years": "ongoing", "note": "listed grower member from Fort Meade" }, { "s": "lakeplacidcoop", "t": "citrusworld", "rel": "member", "years": "listed 2026", "note": "the town's grower cooperative in the member list" }, { "s": "citrusmktsvcs", "t": "citrusworld", "rel": "member", "years": "listed 2026", "note": "listed grower member from Sebring" }, { "s": "southerngardens", "t": "citrusworld", "rel": "member", "years": "ongoing", "note": "listed grower member from southern Hendry County" }, { "s": "lakeplacidcoop", "t": "lakeplacid", "rel": "side", "years": "ongoing", "note": "the town's cooperative" }, { "s": "citrusmktsvcs", "t": "sebring", "rel": "side", "years": "ongoing", "note": "the Sebring member organization" }, { "s": "hccgasoc", "t": "sebring", "rel": "side", "years": "ongoing", "note": "the county grower association's seat" }, { "s": "lykes", "t": "lakeplacid", "rel": "side", "years": "1940s to present", "note": "the family's first grove and its Highlands citrus base" }, { "s": "peaceriverpacking", "t": "fortmeade", "rel": "side", "years": "1928 to present", "note": "the town packinghouse" }, { "s": "larryblack", "t": "peaceriverpacking", "rel": "member", "years": "to present", "note": "general manager in the fifth generation" }, { "s": "johngose", "t": "lykes", "rel": "member", "years": "2000s", "note": "Lykes Bros citrus executive in Highlands County" }, { "s": "johngose", "t": "hccgasoc", "rel": "member", "years": "2006 to 2007", "note": "serves as association president through the canker and freeze years" }, { "s": "johnkiernan", "t": "alico", "rel": "member", "years": "2025", "note": "announces the wind down as president and chief executive" }, { "s": "fdacs", "t": "joshuacitrus", "rel": "label", "years": "ongoing", "note": "Century Pioneer Family Farm designation for more than 100 years of operation" }, { "s": "farmcredit", "t": "joshuacitrus", "rel": "support", "years": "ongoing", "note": "the lender profiles the family operation among its customers" }, { "s": "farmcredit", "t": "arcadia", "rel": "side", "years": "2025", "note": "Arcadia and Wauchula branches and the 20 million dollar patronage dinner" }, { "s": "htlykes", "t": "lykes", "rel": "founded", "years": "1900", "note": "his sons open the Cuba cattle office in 1900 and incorporate in 1910" }, { "s": "lykes", "t": "lykessteamship", "rel": "spawned", "years": "1906", "note": "the shipping side grown from the family cattle trade" }, { "s": "lykes", "t": "lykesmeat", "rel": "side", "years": "1913 to 1996", "note": "the packing outlet, sold to Smithfield Foods" }, { "s": "lykes", "t": "nicodemus", "rel": "produced", "years": "2014", "note": "water storage on 15,858 acres of ranch land in Glades County" }, { "s": "lykes", "t": "brightonvalley", "rel": "produced", "years": "2020", "note": "the 8,143 acre stormwater project on the ranch" }, { "s": "sfwmd", "t": "nicodemus", "rel": "collab", "years": "2014 to present", "note": "dispersed water management program project" }, { "s": "sfwmd", "t": "brightonvalley", "rel": "collab", "years": "2020 to present", "note": "joint stormwater storage partnership" }, { "s": "fisheatingeasement", "t": "lykes", "rel": "support", "years": "2022 to 2023", "note": "the easements cover about 6,864 then about 10,464 acres of the ranch" }, { "s": "fdep", "t": "fisheatingeasement", "rel": "label", "years": "2022 to 2023", "note": "Cabinet and Board of Trustees easement items in the Fisheating Creek basin" }, { "s": "lakeplacideasement", "t": "lykes", "rel": "support", "years": "2025", "note": "the 135 acre former grove passes under federal easement, a cow calf operation continuing" }, { "s": "fws", "t": "lakeplacideasement", "rel": "label", "years": "2025", "note": "the service takes the easement inside the Everglades Headwaters footprint" }, { "s": "fws", "t": "pantherbank", "rel": "label", "years": "2007", "note": "approves and certifies the first panther conservation bank, as reported" }, { "s": "corridoract", "t": "fisheatingeasement", "rel": "produced", "years": "2022 to 2023", "note": "corridor era Florida Forever easements" }, { "s": "corridoract", "t": "blueheadeasement", "rel": "produced", "years": "2023", "note": "approved as a corridor property" }, { "s": "blueheadeasement", "t": "bluehead", "rel": "support", "years": "2023", "note": "about 1,291 acres of the ranch under state easement" }, { "s": "fdep", "t": "blueheadeasement", "rel": "label", "years": "2023", "note": "the 14 March 2023 approval within a 46.6 million dollar five property item" }, { "s": "parkerbros", "t": "brighthour", "rel": "precursor", "years": "1858 to 1963", "note": "the sale to Calvin Houghland renames the ranch; roughly 80,000 acres continue" }, { "s": "parkerbros", "t": "rodeo", "rel": "founded", "years": "1928", "note": "the ranch family and their Browning managers create the event" }, { "s": "openrange", "t": "parkerbros", "rel": "support", "years": "1916", "note": "the brothers sell about 35,000 head as the open range closes" }, { "s": "openrange", "t": "adamsranch", "rel": "support", "years": "1947 onward", "note": "the Braford breed is developed for the fenced pasture era" }, { "s": "openrange", "t": "rcrec", "rel": "collab", "years": "1941 onward", "note": "the station is the research base of the improved pasture era" }, { "s": "sfwmd", "t": "brighthour", "rel": "label", "years": "1998 onward", "note": "the Bright Hour Watershed conservation easement" }, { "s": "brighthour", "t": "bluehead", "rel": "collab", "years": "ongoing", "note": "Florida Forever corridor anchors east and west of the prairie" }, { "s": "carltonjr", "t": "roman3", "rel": "founded", "years": "1957", "note": "designs the Roman III brand, as reported" }, { "s": "carltongov", "t": "roman3", "rel": "precursor", "years": "family line", "note": "the governor's Wauchula ranching family continues in the operation" }, { "s": "carltongov", "t": "wauchula", "rel": "member", "years": "1929 to 1933", "note": "born in the town in 1885; governor of Florida through the Depression's opening years" }, { "s": "carlton3", "t": "roman3", "rel": "member", "years": "to present", "note": "the third generation, with Horse Creek Ranch held about 60 years" }, { "s": "roman3", "t": "fca", "rel": "member", "years": "ongoing", "note": "ranked 12th by head count among about 5,000 Florida ranches, as reported via the association" }, { "s": "roman3", "t": "wauchula", "rel": "side", "years": "1957 to present", "note": "the family seat" }, { "s": "weswilliamson", "t": "williamson", "rel": "member", "years": "to present", "note": "a principal of the family company" }, { "s": "weswilliamson", "t": "fca", "rel": "member", "years": "2013", "note": "serves as association president" }, { "s": "williamson", "t": "fca", "rel": "member", "years": "2013", "note": "the ranch's turn in a Heartland presidency" }, { "s": "peteclemons", "t": "okeelivestock", "rel": "member", "years": "1961 to 1989", "note": "buys and modernizes the market; his sons take over in 1989" }, { "s": "fdacs", "t": "okeelivestock", "rel": "label", "years": "ongoing", "note": "listed among the state's livestock markets" }, { "s": "okeelivestock", "t": "okeechobeetown", "rel": "side", "years": "1948 to present", "note": "the auction barn beside the railroad" }, { "s": "charliemicco", "t": "seminolecattle", "rel": "member", "years": "1936 onward", "note": "first elected cattle trustee and first cattle foreman" }, { "s": "seminolecattle", "t": "fca", "rel": "member", "years": "2018", "note": "Alex Johns of the Tribe serves as association president" }, { "s": "adamsranch", "t": "okeechobeetown", "rel": "side", "years": "1937 to present", "note": "ranch land reaches into the county" }, { "s": "fca", "t": "rcrec", "rel": "support", "years": "1941", "note": "cattlemen back the station's establishment" }, { "s": "rcrec", "t": "extension", "rel": "collab", "years": "ongoing", "note": "extension carries the station's research to the region's ranches" }, { "s": "puntarassa", "t": "crackertrail", "rel": "spawned", "years": "by 2000", "note": "the modern ride reenacts the drive corridor; the trail wins Community Millennium Trail designation on 20 November 2000" }, { "s": "crackertrail", "t": "okeechobeetown", "rel": "festival", "years": "each February", "note": "the ride passes through the county" }, { "s": "crackertrail", "t": "zolfosprings", "rel": "festival", "years": "each February", "note": "the Peace River crossing of the historic route" }, { "s": "johnhundley", "t": "hundley", "rel": "founded", "years": "1969", "note": "founds the farm with his wife Patsy on 400 leased acres" }, { "s": "johnhundley", "t": "scgc", "rel": "member", "years": "34 years", "note": "board director, seven years as chairman" }, { "s": "hundley", "t": "pioneer", "rel": "collab", "years": "2012", "note": "facility expansion partnership" }, { "s": "pioneer", "t": "belleglade", "rel": "side", "years": "1950 to present", "note": "the sweet corn cooperative's town" }, { "s": "roth", "t": "scgc", "rel": "member", "years": "1960 to present", "note": "founding member per the company history" }, { "s": "rickroth", "t": "roth", "rel": "member", "years": "to present", "note": "president; Florida Farmer of the Year 2020 to 2021" }, { "s": "tkm", "t": "belleglade", "rel": "side", "years": "1996 to present", "note": "the lettuce operation and its Cypress Cooling plant" }, { "s": "farmbureau", "t": "cbfarms", "rel": "label", "years": "2019", "note": "This Farm CARES designation for documented stewardship" }, { "s": "farmbureau", "t": "daviedairy", "rel": "label", "years": "ongoing", "note": "This Farm CARES profiled farm" }, { "s": "farmbureau", "t": "lykes", "rel": "label", "years": "2018", "note": "This Farm CARES designation" }, { "s": "farmbureau", "t": "joshuacitrus", "rel": "label", "years": "2018", "note": "This Farm CARES designation" }, { "s": "duda", "t": "dudasod", "rel": "spawned", "years": "1973", "note": "the turfgrass division" }, { "s": "duda", "t": "labelle", "rel": "side", "years": "1960s to present", "note": "citrus purchased at LaBelle in the 1960s" }, { "s": "duda", "t": "belleglade", "rel": "side", "years": "ongoing", "note": "the produce and sod operation in the Glades" }, { "s": "dudasod", "t": "lakeplacid", "rel": "side", "years": "ongoing", "note": "the division's Ridge sod farm" }, { "s": "globalproduce", "t": "moorehavenmelons", "rel": "spawned", "years": "documented 2026", "note": "the subsidiary established to grow watermelons in south Florida" }, { "s": "moorehavenmelons", "t": "moorehaven", "rel": "side", "years": "documented 2026", "note": "the name places the growing operation at the county seat; the placement is graded Low" }, { "s": "watermelonassoc", "t": "arcadia", "rel": "side", "years": "ongoing", "note": "the association's seat in the melon county" }, { "s": "usdanass", "t": "watermelonassoc", "rel": "support", "years": "2022", "note": "the Census records the 1,424 watermelon acres the parcel roll cannot see" }, { "s": "cbfarms", "t": "clewistontown", "rel": "side", "years": "1986 to present", "note": "specialty vegetables on the Hendry muck" }, { "s": "dotbates", "t": "bates", "rel": "member", "years": "to present", "note": "a principal of the family firm" }, { "s": "dotbates", "t": "caladiumfest", "rel": "founded", "years": "1990", "note": "co organizes the first festival" }, { "s": "carolynphypers", "t": "happiness", "rel": "member", "years": "to present", "note": "a principal of the family firm" }, { "s": "carolynphypers", "t": "caladiumfest", "rel": "founded", 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