Establishment of the Fruitland Park community was part of an organized effort to convert cutover pinelands of south Mississippi into farms.

[3] Thousands of parcels of cutover land in the South were marketed to farmers in the midwestern and northeastern United States between 1900 and 1920.

The New York Hotel operated from 1914 until 1919 to serve potential buyers of property in the planned community.

Since most of the immigrant farm families returned to their homelands after becoming discouraged by the hot summers and failed crops, Fruitland Park never developed into the town that was envisioned.

This article about a property in Mississippi on the National Register of Historic Places is a stub.