Pompano Beach: A History

by Frank J. Cavaioli

Overview

Pompano Beach: A History tells the story of the hardworking men and women who transformed Pompano from a wild farming community into a flourishing city on Florida�s coast. From the hardships of hurricanes to the riches of the 1920s real estate boom, through the tough times of the Depression to victory in World War II, author Frank J. Cavaioli, PhD, traces the history of Pompano through fascinating facts and residents� own accounts.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781625844040
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	12/17/2007
Series:	Brief History
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	160
File size:	6 MB

About the Author

Frank J. Cavaioli, professor emeritus at Farmingdale State University and visiting professor at Florida Atlantic University, holds the BA, MA and PhD degrees. Author of ten books, more than fifty scholarly articles and a contributor to various encyclopedias, he is a longtime proponent and researcher of state and local history. Among the many awards he has received, he is particularly proud of the following: Freedoms Foundation George Washington Honor Medal, Colonial Dames Society Award, Immigration History Research grant at the University of Minnesota, Moody Research grant at the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, and SUNY Chancellor�s Award for Excellence in Teaching at Farmingdale State. He is a Newberry Library Research Fellow and a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellow at the University of Michigan.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements     9
Introduction     11
The Foundation Years     15
The Early Settlers     25
Boom and Bust     41
The Kester Era     59
The World War II Era     71
The Modern Era     89
The Condominium Era     107
Toward the Millennium     125
Contemporary Pompano Beach     135
Bibliography     153
Index     157
About the Author     159