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working every day on the mainland, clearing land for orange groves,
and they had quickly built the platform high above the ground so that
their wives would be protected from wild animals during the day,
while the men worked at the settlement across the Halifax River.
Extremely excited about their discovery, a few days later, Dow and
Anderson returned to the peninsula and offered to buy the property
from the unhappy women and their husbands. The couples were
delighted to get rid of the property, and offered to sell all eighty acres
(from river to ocean) for a hundred dollars, which would be enough
money to take them back home to New York. Dow and Anderson
generously added another twenty-five dollars to this amount, and the
land became theirs. This would become part of the land on which the
Hotel Ormond was to be built, later in the late 1880's. Dow, Fox, and
Anderson moved onto the property and occupied one of the rough
cabins which they named "Trapper's Lodge."

Early cabins were constructed from materials gathered while clearing
land around the site and typically consisted of pine and sabal palm
logs. Palm fronds from sabal palms were in abundance and typically
used to construct thatched roofs during early construction.

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