He also built a starch mill for the manufacture of Coontie Bread, which is derived from the roots of the native Florida Coontie or Arrowroot (Zamia pumila) The area was ,
Get MoreJul 26, 2016· The Hurst Starch Mill used native Florida coontie roots to make arrowroot starch, which was sold to national baking compani When the mill opened in 1910, most of the workers were black ,
Get MoreIt is likely that the first structure in today’s Spring Garden was a coontie starch mill built on Wagner Creek by William English in the late 1840’s William Wagner and a Captain Sinclair also built a steam-powered coontie mill on Wagner Creek in the late 1850’s, perhaps on the same site of English’s earlier mill The area’s first known
Get MoreSep 15, 2012· In 1919 the largest coontie mill relocated from along the New River in Ft Lauderdale to Kendall in Dade County, specifically the southwest corner of US 1 and South Kendall Dr, the present-day SW 104th St One of the mill’s customers was Nabisco But by 1925 the last commercial starch mill ,
Get MoreThis flour was called coontie starch The flour could also be used as laundry starch (Note: Although coontie mills were very profitable the Zamia plant grew very slowly and could not be cultivated When the plant supply ran out the coontie mill industry disappeared as well Pineapple (and later tomato) plantations became the chief means of ,
Get MoreApr 07, 2019· The Fergusons, who operated a coontie starch mill over the Miami River near today’s Northwest 27th Avenue, also sold groceries to the few who lived in the area, and William Brickell had a ,
Get MoreTheir main business was running a steam powered Coontie Starch Mill In 1860 they operated one of five mills on the Miami River Coontie is arrowroot from the native cycad plant and it could be used like flour During the Civil War a naval blockade prevented the family from being able to sell their coontie and they would have starved to death ,
Get MoreHurst also started a starch factory which he ran until 1923, when the operation moved to Kendall His starch product, known as Coontie, was edible He was a member of the Pioneers Club of Miami and the Little River Men's Association The shuffleboard courts at Little River were named after Hurst He was a member of the Miami Shores Community ,
Get More"coontie' was found in the area of the Fort Lauderdale/ Hollywood Airport The Seminoles prepach from the root of the coontie plant, and this area was so famous for coon tie that they called the New River "Coontie Hatachee" , mill was established by Hurst in the Miami area
Get MoreT he Hurst starch mill in Lemon City, circa early 1900s Here coontie root was processed into raw starch and shipped, primarily to Key West Almost every pioneer family, Black and White, dug the roots for their own use or for sale The root once grew plentifully in the pine woods, but was harvested to extinction in South Florida
Get MoreA starch made from the Florida arrowroot plant was the , plant as coontie, coomptie, or koonti Natives and settlers alike , In 1926 the A B Hurst mill, located in the greater ,
Get MoreThe area was first settled in the early 1840s when William English established a coontie starch mill in the area in the 1840s By the 1850s, William Wagner and a business partner reestablished a coontie mill on a Miami River tributary, which would be named after Wagner A freshwater spring was found on the tributary in the area, which caused ,
Get MoreThe Fergusons, who operated a coontie starch mill over the Miami River near today’s Northwest 27th Avenue, also sold groceries to the few who lived in the area, and William Brickell had a trading post on the south side of the mouth of the Miami River beginning in the 1870s When the city was incorporated in 1896, there were at least three ,
Get MoreThe mill contains five sets of sixty-inch cards, four sell-factory mules, three thousand one hundred and nine spindles, and other necessary machinery The original mill has been enlarged by an addition to the western end The mills are now known as the Gladstone Mills, but ,
Get MoreDelaware Spring Garden Florida, the former name of DeLeon Springs Florida Spring Garden Miami a neighborhood in Miami Florida Spring Garden - John Leavell Miami
Get MorePublications: Coontie or Comptie South Dade’s Last Commercial Starch Mill by Jean C Taylor Update, vol 3, no 6 (August 1976) South Florida’s First Industry by Earnest G Gearhardt Jr Tequesta, no xii (1952) Describes the process of collecting comptie roots, making starch, using the starch Starch Making: A Pioneer Florida Industry
Get MoreMar 06, 1988· Starch made from coontie was an important source of food for the Seminoles, a source severely threatened by the new fort on the river With his chief Indian guide, Billy Benefactor, Lauderdale ,
Get MoreDuring the late 19th and early 20th centuries, the processing of coontie became so industrialized that a plant in Miami put out 15 tons of starch a day It takes 100 pounds of coontie root to make 10 pounds of starch It doesn't take much imagination to see what that scale of production did to the coontie ,
Get MoreSep 13, 2007· Remains of the first settler's original coontie starch mill are still visible across the creek, and the Park exists as the only preserved archaeological site in the County To me it's like a microcosm of what Florida looked like to the original settlers at the turn of the century
Get MoreThere at Ft Dallas, Peacock assisted J W Ewan at his store/post office; he also operated a coontie starch mill a little ways up river Sometime around 1879 Hannibal and Charles Pierce visited the Peacock family at their home Charles Pierce: " We tied up to the rocky bank that served as a dock on the north side of the river and cooked supper
Get MoreThere at Ft Dallas, Peacock assisted J W Ewan at his store/post office; he also operated a coontie starch mill a little ways up river Sometime around 1879 Hannibal and Charles Pierce visited the Peacock family at their home Charles Pierce:" We tied up to the rocky bank that served as a dock on the north side of the river and cooked supper
Get MoreCompte or coontie, among many other variant names, is the name for both a starch and the plant from which it can be produced Compte plants are zamia plants, which are ubiquitous in the pinelands near the Biscayne Bay Early settlers frequently dug up the roots and set up mills to produce the starch
Get MoreHorizontal vs Vertical Milling Machines Which is Best There are also various types of addon parts and cutting heads that can be used to modify a horizontal mill to do vertical milling or vice versa This is a great advantage to a small shop that usually needs one type of mill because it allows a wider range of milling on a single machine, especially for applications that are not often needed
Get MoreFor decades they ran a steam powered Coontie Starch Mill and they were key figures of Miami’s pioneer community especially its Catholic community They conducted church services at their house until they built a church in the 1870s with the official support of ,
Get Morepowech factory and saw mill (B of Figure 1) over a branch of the river just east of the rapids, drawing water from above the rapids which was held by a dam At one time they came to employ 25 people and did a $24,000 per year business in the production of coontie (arrowroot) starch from the native Zamia plant that grew profusely in the pine
Get MoreA B Hurst, and remained in operation until 1919, when it was moved to the southern part of the county near Kendall It continued in operation at this new location until 1925 In order to describe the type of starch mill being used in South Florida
Get MoreHistory The area was first settled in the early 1840s when William English established a coontie starch mill in the area in the 1840s By the 1850s, William Wagner and a business partner reestablished a coontie mill on a Miami River tributary which would be named after Wagner A freshwater spring was found on the tributary in the area, which caused Henry Flagler to build the private Miami ,
Get MoreFigure 3: Coontie Starch Mill in South Dade Early families employed makeshift mills to process the root of a cycad plant found in large quantities and which Native Americans in the area called coontie or comptie The plant yielded, with processing, a starch used in stews, biscuits and breads and represented the area’s chief cash crop, with ,
Get MoreJan 10, 2011· The Coontie Mill (see pictures of coontie in my set, Woods, weeds and streams) The Tequestas were the first people to recognize the value of Arch Creek, but they were not the only on Around 1858 two ambitious pioneers used the creek and its natural bridge as a site for a coontie starch mill
Get MoreLaid out in wooden racks, the starch dried quickly and the sun bleached it white In the early 1900s, several commercial factories in South Florida processed Coontie roots for the manufacture of arrowroot biscuits But Coontie starch was not as successful as the pioneers thought, and the mill was abandoned several years later
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