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Plantation Real Estate

The City Of Plantation covers about 22 square miles of prime Southern Florida Real Estate located in Broward County just 10 miles west of The City Of Fort Lauderdale between the towns of Coral Springs and Hialeah. Plantation's precise location is 27.06° north of the equator and 82.37° west along Highway 84 near the Atlantic coastline.

Plantation Lifestyle

Plantation offers homeowners one of the largest and most popular malls in South Florida.

Plantation Housing

Plantation has an abundance of upscale homes with a median housing price of $146,154. Homes available in Plantation include condominiums,

Plantation Employment

Plantation's business centers offer homeowners some employment opportunities, however for those who choose to commute, there is amply work available in the many surrounding communities. The median household income in Plantation is right around $41,832.

Plantation Transportation

Plantation homeowners enjoy easy access to neighboring communities via nearby access routes: Interstate 95, Interstate 75, US Highway 441, US Highway 27 and US Highway 1

Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport provides Plantation homeowners with International air travel services.

Plantation Recreation

Plantation offers a variety of recreational opportunities, including 37 parks with about 284 acres of green grass lawns walkways trails and playgrounds, extensive recreation programs for all ages, including tennis, swimming, golf, baseball, football, soccer, track and jogging.

Plantation Education

Broward County Public School District educates Plantation's children. The Board of Education is located at 600 Southeast 3rd Avenue, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 Phone: (954) 765-6000

Helen B. Hoffman Public Library is located at 501 North Fig Tree Lane Plantation, FL 33317, Phone: 954-797-2140. The library  offers 157,844 books. 4,495 audio materials, 4,451 video materials and 294 periodicals.

Plantation History

U.S. Highway 441, as it's called today, was in those days just two-lane highway that connected Palm Beach and Dade County, an area that was fairly  isolated and far from any real estate development which existed to the east. The area practically undeveloped was a natural habitat for large alligators, snakes and other wild animals inhabited the land.

A prominent sight long the road in the oak forests were "chickees", open-air huts that have been used for ages by Florida's Seminoles. Seminoles were originally bands of Creek Indians from Georgia and Alabama who migrated to Florida in the 1700s. The area was dubbed the Old Plantation Water Control District when an irrigation and drainage district in was constructed in 1911. There were also signs along the highway which advertised land for sale at prices of "$10 down, $100 a month".

Frederick C. Peters founded Plantation in 1931 after moving his family from Missouri into the area then known as South Dade County which is now Miami-Dade County. The family introduced Florida Red Potatoes, which were popularized by the promotional slogan, "Peter's Patent Potatoes Peel Pretty".

Broward County remained relatively uninhabited until the 1940s radical changes due to World War II coursed an increase in the local economy. South Florida's attractive tropical climate and lifestyle and ideal location within Broward County drew an influx of People seeking undeveloped, inexpensive land and the area's canal system was an added bonus.

Frederick Peters soon began raising cattle known as Polled Herefords which prompted the him to look for additional grazing land the for his cattle. Peters began looking for inexpensive, undeveloped real estate property and discovered the Plantation area which already had a subterranean irrigation system consisting of layered muck sand and rock. The conditions of the area's real estate turned out to be perfect for plowing and cultivating crops and grasses, so in 1941, Peters took advantage of the cheap land and bought 10,000 acres of undeveloped real estate for $250,000. The land had been partially drained during construction of the Holloway Canals, but had no irrigation facilities. The area was nicknamed Plantation because the larger tracts of real estate property were purchased by real estate investors from city areas, who refered to their real estate properties as "plantations".

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Teri Arbogast, P.A.

Keller Williams Properties
1625 N Commerce Pkwy, Suite 105
Western, FL 33326
DIRECT: (954) 242-8030
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