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Around the turn of the century, one of the region's biggest industries was fruit, namely citrus fruits such as oranges. For a while they tried to grow pineapples. The backbreaking work of growing and harvesting the fruit was done by newly freed blacks and Irish immigrants- according to my mom, one of our ancestors was an Irish immigrant who worked for awhile as a orange picker in Florida.
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The turn of the century was when industry and civilization started to arrive in Florida.
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After looking in the museum, we were shown a historical house done up as it would have looked during this time period. The tour guide told me it was a middle class house but I imagine that for the time and place, it would have been considered fairly luxurious since it featured such, then, cutting edge amenities as a victrola and an ice box. We ate lunch at the Hurricane House before moving on to the Fort Pierce marina for our 1:30 boat tour. A pontoon boat took us around the lagoons and inlets of the Indian River in search of manatees and dolphins.
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We did not see any manatees but a few dolphins popped up to say hello to us.
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On our way home, we did another stop at Beall's because Aunt Suzie found some coupons and then went to a store called the Shell Bizarre, where I bought a couple of sea shells. Mom insisted on looking in a Good Will which and thankfully did not waste too much time and we picked up food for dinner at a grocery story Publix. After dinner, we went for a swim in the pool from 6:00 until it closed at 8:00.
