The Disston Land Purchase
Summary
According to T. Frederick Davis, the article “The Disston Land Purchase” was published in the Florida Historical Quarterly (Volume 17, Issue 3, Article 5) in 1938 (frequently cited as January 1939). The text asserts that it provides critical antecedent context regarding Hamilton Disston’s 1881 contract to purchase four million acres of swamp and overflowed lands from the State of Florida [davis-disston-1938].
This text remains the standard scholarly account of the transaction, which formed the foundational chain of title for large sections of Central Florida, including the eventual townsite of Avon Park.
Provenance
- Title: The Disston Land Purchase
- Author: T. Frederick Davis
- Publication: Florida Historical Quarterly
- Volume and Issue: Vol. 17, No. 3, Article 5
- Date: 1938 (often cited as January 1939)
- Publisher: University of Central Florida STARS Repository
- Direct Link: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol17/iss3/5/
- PDF Download: https://stars.library.ucf.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1930&context=fhq
- Abstract: “To understand the importance of the Disston land purchase to the development of Florida it is necessary to consider the conditions in the state antecedent and relative.”
References
- davis-disston-1938 — T. Frederick Davis. The Disston Land Purchase. 1938. https://stars.library.ucf.edu/fhq/vol17/iss3/5/
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Sources
- T. Frederick Davis, The Disston Land Purchase (1938) · secondary
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