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Originally Posted by Bill14564
Air conditioning was not invented until 1902 but the population of Florida 40 years earlier in 1860 was over 140,000. Without the ToTV forum, no one told them it was unlivable here.
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I'm pretty sure that the vast majority of those people lived near the shore where temps are much more tolerable. Meanwhile the interior had few people and so it was that a certain family was able to purchase thousands of acres for a song.