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The Great Freeze
December 1894 – February 1895
Orlando, Florida
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Two freezes eight weeks apart killed the orange trees to the roots, the second one after a warm spell had coaxed the sap back up, which is what finished them. The industry moved a hundred miles south for good, and central Florida spent the next fifty years poor.
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