LIVING HISTORY
seeds of various agricultural crops, particularly
citrus, including lemons, sweet and sour oranges,
and citrons. He carried the seeds to the island
of Hispaniola at what is now the nation of Haiti,
arriving on November 22, 1493, and eventually
seeing to it that orchards were planted.
There is evidence that orange seeds were later
planted in Central America during July of 1518.
FLORIDA’S FIRST
We know from Spanish writings that oranges
were being produced in abundance at St. Augustine
introduced about the year of the city’s founding
arriving in Florida found wild groves of both
sour and sweet oranges in various corners of the
state, with Native Americans apparently planting
groves. They were usually near lakes and rivers,
but many have been found in undisturbed hammocks
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in 1579. It seems likely that they were
in 1565. For the next two centuries, settlers
them in clumps similar to today’s orange
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along the Treasure Coast.
Jesse Fish, a transplanted New Yorker, planted
a commercial orange grove on Anastasia Island
near St. Augustine in 1763. He made one shipment
to England in 1776 but shipments were
suspended because of the Revolutionary War.
The development of a commercial citrus industry
in north-central Florida was begun after
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