Editing Princeton, Florida (section)

== History ==
[[File:C024964 Tomatoes Princeton Florida.jpg|thumb|left|160px|Harvesters using a conveyor belt in order to aid with tomato harvesting in Princeton, Florida (1957)]]
As a small town and depot along the [[Florida East Coast Railroad]] in the 1900s, the community was named by Gaston Drake after his alma mater, [[Princeton University]]. Many of the town buildings were even painted the school's colors: black and orange. Drake operated a saw mill and lumber company in Princeton supplying Miami, the [[Florida Keys]] and [[Cuba]] until the local timber gave out in 1923.<ref name="Taylor1985">{{cite book|author=Jean Cunningham Taylor|title=Villages of South Dade|date=c. 1985 |publisher=B. Kennedy|pages=126–7|oclc= 18906834}}</ref>