Life on the Southeast Florida Frontier Miami History Blog
Figure 3: Coontie Starch Mill in South Dade. Early families employed makeshift mills to process the root of a cycad plant found in large quantities and which Native Americans in the area called coontie or comptie. The plant yielded, with processing, a starch used in stews, biscuits and breads and represented the area’s chief cash crop, with ...
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