174. Florida's Dreamers and Land Schemers- Part Two

In Part One, we covered Florida's land boom of the 1920's and its subsequent crash. Here in Part Two, we'll be looking at some of the unexpected and unintended ramifications of urbanizing the southeast coast in Broward and Dade counties that manifested with the Flood of 1947 when 5 million acres of land from Lake Okeechobee down to Miami lay submerged for half the year and then we also examine how people refuse to learn from their mistakes as a second land boom erupts in the 1960's. Every bit of this overlooked past serves up important lessons; lessons that go largely unheeded leading to mistakes being repeated. We hope you'll listen and share this episode with others so that all of us here in Florida can do better.