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Two individuals who shaped the development of one of Florida's major urban centers
When they married in 1900, Frank and Ivy Stranahan began a life together on the Florida frontier that would shape and define the development of one of the state's most sophisticated urban centers. Pioneering spirit and economic enterprise linked them to Seminole Indians, venture capitalists, and colorful entrepreneurs along the New River settlement; today they're recognized as a founding family of Fort Lauderdale and their riverfront home has been restored and designated a National Historic Landmark.
Frank Stranahan came south from Ohio in 1893 to run an overnight camp on the
stagecoach line carrying passengers from Lake Worth to the Miami area. He soon
opened a trading post that thrived on commerce in pelts, plumes, and hides with
Seminole Indians, who in turn purchased goods and groceries to take back to
their camps in the Everglades. Stranahan's business interests expanded to
include real estate and banking. An honest businessman, he became a respected
political and civic leader, instrumental in the birth of Fort Lauderdale in
1911. When the Florida land boom collapsed and his bank closed, Stranahan's
mental and physical health failed, and he committed suicide in 1929.
Ivy Cromartie, a native Floridian, was 18 when she arrived at the settlement as its first schoolteacher and met her future husband. Energetic and articulate, she focused her activities outside the home. Besides teaching, she was active in a variety of reform movements ranging from Audubon Society efforts to save the plume birds to temperance and women's suffrage, working mainly through the Florida Federation of Women's Clubs. She is best remembered for her role as an advocate for Indigenous American rights—especially education and child welfare—primarily with the Friends of the Seminoles, an organization she established in the 1930s. Before her death in 1971 she spoke frequently about her full life to reporters and historians and was interviewed extensively by Kersey.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Series Foreword
- Preface
- 1. The New River Mystique
- 2. The Buckeye Connection
- 3. The New River Camp
- 4. Stranahan & Co., 1894–1911
- 5. Stranahan: Land Agent, Banker, and Promoter
- 6. Stranahan: Civic Leader and Politician
- 7. Ivy Stranahan, Civic Activist
- 8. Ivy Stranahan and the Indian Reform Movement
- 9. Public Lives, Private People
- 10. Epilogue
- Appendixes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index