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Life on the West Florida frontier was primitive. Most people had homes of log cabins, often on blocks to capture the breeze (important before the age of air conditioning!). The interiors were sparse and unadorned; simple beds, tables and chairs were present, and there would be numerous pegs on the walls to hang clothes and other items that needed to be kept off the floor. Bags of seed, dried fruit, corn shucks packed with sausage, and strings of red pepper might be found suspended from the joists. Outbuildings included a barn, detached kitchen, smoke house, stable, outhouse, and chicken coops. A milk cow would be present, along with goats, mules, horses, chickens, dogs, ducks, guineas and perhaps even a peacock or peahen. One early chronicler described the environment as a “constant squawking, barking, and squealing, each according to its kind.” There were also a lot of dogs at these homesteads. An early historian commented that “the barking, yelping, and howling, of a congreg

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