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About half a mile up the river in the woods
beside the Halifax River was the
beginnings of what would later become
"Hammock Home." This early cabin was
built and occupied by three other young
men, Joseph Downing Price, Jack Thomas,
and Elijah Craig, all from Kentucky. Joseph
D. Price and comrades were also
completing their log cabin, and soon
discovered their neighbors to the south.
Anderson and his comrades from Maine,
among them Charles L. Fox, of Portland,
and his cousin, Samuel Dow, now of Tennessee, had built their camp
about half a mile south of the Kentucky Camp and soon became
allied camps of the Halifax River Peninsula. As pioneers these young
men hunted together, feasted and starved together, sailed and
capsized, rolled logs, set orange trees and had the fever together,
and when unfortunately a vessel went ashore on the Florida coast
they all went wrecking together.

Joseph Downing Price was born in
Carrolton, Kentucky in 1853 to a
distinguished Kentucky family. The
following year his father, John Z.
Price, arranged to engage in
business in Cincinnati, Ohio and the
family moved to Covington,
Kentucky where young Joseph D.
Price acquired a good common
education in both public and private
schools through the third year in
high school. After high school,
Joseph Price then began life as an
apprentice civil engineer with the

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