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Oranges and inlets
Title
Oranges and inlets: an environmental history of Florida's Indian River Lagoon.
Creator
Osborn, Nathaniel, Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Department of History
Abstract/Description
Nineteenth century settlers in Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) region created an isolated fringe culture wholly dependent on the instable hydrological forces of the shallow lagoon system. These settlers were among the first to construct a built environment market by the dredging and filling that would define much of the twentieth century Sunshine State. There has been no period when the liminal IRL ecosystem was not without shifting barrier islands and dramatically varying salinity levels...
Show moreNineteenth century settlers in Florida's Indian River Lagoon (IRL) region created an isolated fringe culture wholly dependent on the instable hydrological forces of the shallow lagoon system. These settlers were among the first to construct a built environment market by the dredging and filling that would define much of the twentieth century Sunshine State. There has been no period when the liminal IRL ecosystem was not without shifting barrier islands and dramatically varying salinity levels due primarily to the oceanic interchange following the opening and closing of natural inlets. This paper suggests that attempts to "restore" the lagoon will necessarily declare an arbitrary historical form to be normative for the system. The first and last chapters provide an overview of the system's origins and recent history, while the core of the paper focuses on human-environment interaction of the lagoon in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century.
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Date Issued
2012
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/FAU/3355868
Subject Headings
History, Environmental aspects, History, Environmental aspects
Format
Document (PDF)
Industry and inlets of Florida's Indian River Lagoon, 1842-1900
Title
Industry and inlets of Florida's Indian River Lagoon, 1842-1900.
Creator
Osborn, Nathaniel, Norman, Sandra, Graduate College
Date Issued
2011-04-08
PURL
http://purl.flvc.org/fcla/dt/3164670
Subject Headings
Indian River Region (Fla. : Lagoon) --History, Industries --Southern States, Railroads --Florida --History
Format
Document (PDF)