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How Dreams of Buried Pirate Treasure Enticed Americans to Flock to Florida During the Roaring Twenties
Miami's skyline in November 1925, at the height of the Florida land boom Bettmann via Getty Images In the early 1920s, tens of thousands of people across the United States, many of whom had never set foot in Florida, made down payments on unbuilt lots …