Title: Letter from Coffrin to Boyer, August 10, 1943, concerning sale of land to the Government

Summary: Letter from Model Land Company sales agent Milo Coffrin to Samuel Boyer of Philadelphia, concerning his property in Homestead. The Government War Department had leased some of his property adjoining the Homestead Airport in order to construct "Perimeter Taxi Ways and hard standings," but it turned out they also dug a canal, which "was detrimental to the property." The advised solution is to sell the canal property to the government.

Creator: Coffrin, Milo O.

Collection Title: Model Land Company Records

Collection No.: ASM0075

Physical Description: 2 typewritten leaves

Container: Box No.: 49, Folder Title: Lease to War Dept., mortgages, Everglades Drainage District taxes, 11-57-39, Homestead, 1926-1944 (Special file 1520).

Recipient: Boyer, Samuel A.

Coverage Temporal: 1940-1949

Coverage Spatial: Homestead (Fla.)

Date: 1943-08-10

Genre: Commercial correspondence

Repository: University of Miami. Library. Special Collections

Series: Series: I Special Files

Subject: Land use; Canals

Repository: Digital Collections

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Source: From: Letter from Coffrin to Boyer, August 10, 1943, concerning sale of land to the Government