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Princeton was a sawmill town painted black and orange
Princeton, Florida
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Gaston Drake started cutting Dade County pine here in 1904 and named the railroad settlement that grew around his mill after his old college. Buildings in town went up in Princeton's black and orange. The Drake Lumber Company shipped south Florida pine to Miami, the Keys and Cuba, housed its workers in a company town split by race, and shut down in 1923 when the local timber ran out. The name outlived the mill.
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