The Great Freeze of 1894-1895 devastated Florida's citrus industry by killing both fruit and trees, causing production to collapse from 6 million to 100,000 boxes annually, land values to plummet from $1,000 to $10 per acre, and forcing the industry to relocate southward, which fundamentally reshaped Florida's agricultural geography for the next century.
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Florida's Great Freeze: The Devastating Winter of 1894-1895 #shortsAñadido:
Winter came. On December 29th, 1894, the temperature in Orlando dropped to 18° Fahrenheit, a record that still stands today.
A brutal freeze swept across Central Florida, destroying the citrus crop.
But here is what made it devastating rather than just bad.
The freeze did not kill the trees. It killed the fruit.
Growers were optimistic. They replanted.
They waited for spring.
And then on February 7th, 1895, the second freeze hit.
This one was worse. Temperatures plunged again, and this time the bark split on the trees themselves.
The trunks cracked open from the cold.
Entire groves, some of them decades old, planted and cultivated by multiple generations of families, died in a matter of days.
Florida had been producing 6 million boxes of citrus annually before the great freeze.
Afterward, production fell to just 100,000 boxes.
Land values in Orlando collapsed.
Property that had sold for $1,000 an acre dropped to as little as $10.
Families left the state. Towns shrank or disappeared entirely.
The economic engine that had built Orlando was dead.
But Orlando survived. It took more than a decade, and when the citrus industry came back, it was different, dominated by large growers rather than small family farms.
And the freeze pushed the industry southward, away from Central Florida, seeding the agricultural geography of the state for the next century.
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