Genuine Florida

I was very glad to find this book a few weeks ago. I had been looking for a book that covered the folks who uprooted themselves from Greece, made the trip across the ocean and the attempts to resettle in Florida. This was a very good recounting of that with plenty of footnotes!

The author (That’s the long Greek name on the cover) does a great job of well covering the exploits of Andrew Turnbull and his gathering of exploitable Greeks and Italians and shipping them to the new Florida land to begin harvesting necessetities for England. The story of Turnbull’s good and then bad relationships with English Florida leaders at the time is well explained. The only part I found lacking was a better explanation of the fall of New Smyrna.

This is another book out-of-print. Check your library.