By 1908, Teddy Roosevelt was in his last full year in the White House and there were still plenty of horses on America’s roads. But that same year, Henry Ford sold his first Model T, with an average American-friendly sticker price that would drop and drop all the way down to $250. Enthusiastic new motorists
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If you Google “Cucumber Capital of the World,” Wauchula shows up prominently in the search results. The other two Florida agricultural “Cs”—citrus and cattle—have also long been more important to the town. But in the 1920s, the town’s robust cucumber industry helped the community secure the seat of Hardee County, and the vegetable has been
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