In 1874, Charles A. Knowlton and his wife, Mary Jennie Cook Knowlton, moved to Putnam County, Florida from Nashua, New Hampshire. Accompanying the Knowltons were her parents, John M. and Emeline Cook, and his parents, Andrew Benjamin and Mary Elizabeth Blake Knowlton. There were also four other Nashua families involved in settling the area, which they called Woodland. They cleared land, built houses, and, though none of them had any farming experience, planted orange groves. By 1880, there were 15 families living in Pomona, on the shores of Lake Broward.
In successive years, Woodland would go by many names. In autograph books of this period (1878), it was called Crystal Lake. In 1879, one writer called it Lake Broward, but by 1880 it was agreed to call it Pomona. It is now called Pomona Park.
From the description of Papers, 1874-1920. (Florida State Archive). WorldCat record id: 32413768
