There's a place in Florida where Czechoslovakian immigrants founded a town that has seen good times and bad. This place, Masaryktown, today has about a thousand residents. It just wishes it had a few more chickens. At one time, its egg-producing co-op was perhaps the largest in the southeastern U.S. But times passed Masaryktown by. This article tells about the immigrants' trials of founding a new town in the 1920s based on the promise of a 'paradise in Florida'.
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A Place in Florida - An Immigrant Town Yearns For Its Chickens
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