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The eager Florida land buyers were taught a terrible lesson when a hurricane swept across Palm Beach County and west to the small farms oaround Lake Okeechobee, destroying 13,000 homes and killing 300.
The eager Florida land buyers were taught a terrible lesson when a hurricane swept across Palm Beach County and west to the small farms oaround Lake Okeechobee, destroying 13,000 homes and killing 300.