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  • The '''Baars Family Estate''' is the collection of land holdings acquired by [[Henry Baars]] and his wife [[Mary Ellison Baars|Mary Ellison] ...struct him to "buy land." By the time of her death in [[1923]], the Baars' holdings included more than 4,000 acres north of [[Hyde Park Road]] and the [[Pensac
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  • ...pment was led by engineer [[William H. Chase]], who had amassed large land holdings in the area through speculation and promoted the area through advertisement ...tely fell through after the [[Wikipedia:Panic of 1837|Panic of 1837]]. The land later became the neighborhoods of [[Hawkshaw]] and [[East Hill]].
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  • *[[1830]] – [[Joseph Forsyth]] transfers half his land holdings to [[Andrew Simpson|Andrew]] and [[Ezekiel Simpson]], and together the thre
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  • ...: "Just buy me a piece of land." Baars did, and eventually Mary Ellison's holdings exceeded 6000 acres, all in the path of the city's growth. At one time, the
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  • ...Henderson''' ([[1905]]-[[1989]]) was a businessman who acquired vast land holdings in the [[Destin]] area in the late 1930s. In 1935 and 1936 Frances Beeland
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  • ...ll''' (b. [[1960]]) is a real estate developer with his family's [[Merrill Land Company]] and [[J. C. Merrill Investments]], a restaurateur with the [[Grea ...II|Will]] and [[Burney Merrill|Burney]], has leveraged their family's land holdings along the Gulf Coast to develop a number of condominiums, as well as reside
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  • ...ically significant [[Baars family]], whose [[Baars family estate|vast land holdings]] shaped much of Pensacola's development. ...gin planning other business interests. Their ventures into real estate and land development followed.
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  • ...ida panhandle, where he purchased a large amount of land. Noel named their holdings Navarre, after the province in Spain near France.[1][2] Wyman platted the t ...re-area in South Santa Rosa County as being prior to the 20th century. The land upon which Eagan existed would, in fact, later become what is now known as
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  • ...black Catholics formed [[St. Joseph Catholic Church]], Sunday provided the land for the new church. ...day "is said to pay taxes on $90,000 worth of property" and "owns valuable holdings in the principal business streets of the city, and employs steadily a force
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  • | occupation =Engineer, land developer ...the military contracts he brought to the area. He also amassed large land holdings on the east side of Pensacola, which he and his brother [[George Edmund Cha
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  • ...[[Wikipedia:Seven Years' War|Seven Years' War]]. Britain organized its new holdings into two territories: '''East Florida''', which comprised modern Florida ea ...forces at [[Wikipedia:Siege of Yorktown|Yorktown]], essentially ending the land war, although British and French naval forces continued to battle at sea. T
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  • *[[1781]] – The land now called [[St. Michaels Cemetery]] is designated a burying place. *[[1827]] – The [[Naval Live Oaks Reservation]] is established on land previously owned by [[Henry M. Breckenridge]].
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