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Owners and Developers of Nearly One Hundred Square Miles of Florida's
Best Agricultural Lands, Ocean and Lake Front
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KELSEY CITY
As the Commercial Center
A New City in the Making
It is ideal from every standpoint; a perfect climate, sanitation the best, land high androll-
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ing, a great transportation center, fronting on beautiful Lake Worth,olf fishing, hunting. sport.
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of nearly every kind; wonderful nursery, five industries alreadyin successful operation.
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A Model Towiisite
Kelsey City, seven miles north of Palm Beach, was laid out on the zoningsystem b. () .
steel Brothers and Dr. John Nolan, of Boston, both lrra of international city planning fame. \„t a
street in the city less than sixty feet wide and one is 135 feet. A United States Post Office i• ire
operation. A bank with $25,000 capitalization is being organized. The first Community (:hunch
is already holding services. The first unit of a $30,000 school buildingisin operation and
a City Hall will be completed soon. The finest railroad grounds and station south of Jackson\ ill,
are under construction. The Florida East Coast Railway and the far -famed Dixie High„ aN lot),
run through Kelsey City.
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THE FISHER HOME, KELSEY CITY
Kelsey City is to be connected with Munyon Island and the ocean front by a causeway and
bridge, with a draw in the center permitting yachts, houseboats, freight boats, and all water craft
to pass through the inland waterway.
It is proposed to make Kelsey City one of the largest industrial centers of the South and al-
ready industries to the extent of nearly half a million dollars are in operation or being built.
The new deep water inlet is within a mile and a half of the city, affording low rate transportation.
The Drake Lumber Company's railroad which terminates at Kelsey City has opened up a cast
agricultural acreage.
Three years ago the site of Kelsey City was practically a forest, now it is a splendid grow-
ing city.
On the three miles of ocean front at Palm Beach Harbor, the bathing is equal to any in the
world. At this point the gulf stream comes closest to the shore, being only one mile distant.
The temperature of the water is about seventy-two or seventy-three degrees the year round. The
clirnate most equable, the average temperature is about seventy-six degrees in the winter and sel-
dom above ninety-three degrees in the summer.
Nearly six miles of lake front are owned by the corporation. The lake in front of Kelsey
City where it reaches over to the ocean side and Palm Beach Harbor is over half a mile wide.
Prosperity Farms is laid out in small parcels of one, two and five acres to meet the require-
ments of the small truck farmer and the citizen who may wish a garden plot to furnish green
vegetables for his city home.
The acreage controlled by this Corporation is considered to be the best in Florida. Much
of it is on the Dixie Highway and all will be within a short distance of the main line of travel
when the proposed roads are completed. This acreage will be sold in sections (640 acres) or
larger plots, as the purchaser may desire. The New Florida and Northwestern Railroad runs
through this property for a distance of over twelve miles which will encourage new townsites to
be opened up within this radius. This acreage is to be offered for sale in whole or in part, dur-
ing the winter of 1924-25 and thereafter, until sold.
View of part of the grew plant of the Drake Lumber Co., Kelsey City, Florida. Output of over seventy-
five thousand feet of lumber daily. Enough standing timber has been purchased to keep plant running full
capacity for fifteen years. One of the largest concerns in the South.
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