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National Grange a late 19th-century force in Arkansas

In December 1867, Oliver Hudson Kelley, a former clerk in the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and six other men founded the National Grange of the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry in Washington.

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Restoration of Starling Hall in Fayette has come a long way, but has much farther to go

Starling Hall was built in 1879 and is the state's first Grange Hall. Efforts to revive the building have been limited by funding, and the group seeks $600,000 to finish the job.

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Restoration of Starling Hall in Fayette has come a long way, but has much farther to go

Starling Hall was built in 1879 and is the state's first Grange Hall. Efforts to revive the building have been limited by funding, and the group seeks $600,000 to finish the job.

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Chasing Shadows: Carrabelle becomes a town on Christmas Eve

Chasing Shadows: Carrabelle becomes a town on Christmas Eve
By Tamara Allen Special to the Times
Editor’s note: This is Part 1 of a two-part series on the founding of Carrabelle.
In 1877, a real estate developer from Minnesota named Oliver Hudson Kelley set up a tent on the east side of the river where the Crooked and New Rivers joined and emptied into Apalachicola Sound. He moved in his wife and four daughters and declared himself the mayor. He began immediately to organize a community named “Rio Carrabella.”
Kelley used his Masonic and Grange connections to meet local businessmen and landowners and to recruit wealthy Yankees in the lumber and the railroad businesses to move to James Island in Franklin County. He became a regular correspondent for the Weekly Floridian newspaper, published every two weeks in Tallahassee, where he posted his” James Island Letters” touting the excellent virtues of St. James Island where Carrabelle is located. He extolled the virtues of such an amazing place with a natural deep-water river, easy access to the Gulf of Mexico, an inexhaustible virgin forest, and rich fertile soil, with oil and minerals in abundance. In a remarkable statement he even claimed that there were no mosquitoes, only an occasional flea!

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