Palmdale, Florida

[1] The earliest descriptions of Palmdale describe residents that "can-do, make-do, and out-do," which are "Crackers to the core, with staunch tradition of loyalty to God, family, home and country.

[1] Palmdale's economy was stimulated by a short "boom" in the early 1920s, with political rallies held at Fisheating Creek.

A train from Moore Haven, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, brought people who wanted to attend the rallies.

Geologists Smith Brooks and Ed Barnett claimed that the Harness Pond well "was not deep enough" at 2,800 feet.

The cloning process was passed on from father to son, Robert Hartman, who during the 1980s, shipped millions plants around the world, "growing them from tissue cuts.

"[1] Forbes Magazine recognized Hartman Nursery as "one of the few successful commercial ventures in the field of cloning."

"[1] It is home to Gatorama, self-proclaimed to feature "some of the largest Crocodiles and Alligators in Florida," built by Cecil Clemons in 1957.

One of the state's first alligator attractions, it also has the largest captive breeding colony of American crocodiles in North America.

[1][2] On October 21, 2016, a fire destroyed the historic Palmdale Cracker, a restaurant recently re-opened the year before.

The owner, Larry Taylor, described the restaurant and general store as the "only nucleus that held these people together."