school for holiday fairs, elections, dances, and agricultural meetings. The property also served as a playground for neighborhood children. 1980-2000 As land became more expensive beginning in the 1980s and the North American Free Trade Agreement began to affect the bottom line of some farmers, the ornamental nursery industry developed due to providing a better financial return on the land. Nevertheless, by 1990, the area was the country’s largest producer of tomatoes in the winter, and provided 95 percent of the limes to the whole country. Hurricanes such as the 1926 Great Miami hurricane, the 1929 Bahamas hurricane, the 1935 Labor Day hurricane, and Hurricane Betsy in 1960 all caused severe damage to crops, ornamental nurseries, and structures. However, it was Hurricane Andrew in 1992 that proved particularly devastating. Among other things, it destroyed Orchid Jungle (now the Hattie Bauer Hammock Preserve), the 1906 Redland Schoolhouse, the 1913 Redland Community United Methodist Church, and the wooden train station in the Aladdin City section, and forced the permanent closure of the Redland Farm Life School and Anderson's Corner and the restaurant that had been operating on the premises. Farm losses exceeded $41 billion. In 1995, Redland became the subject of national media attention when nine-year-old Jimmy Ryce disappeared after the school bus dropped him off at the southeast corner of Silver Palm Drive and Farm Life School Road, a block from his home. Three months after the disappearance, Juan Carlos Chavez, who had been living in a trailer on a neighbor's property, confessed to abducting, raping, and murdering Ryce, and then dismembering his body and interring the remains in planters sealed with concrete. The crime led to the passage of the Jimmy Ryce Act, which prescribes conditions for the involuntary civil commitment of sex offenders upon release from prison. Juan Carlos Chavez was executed by the state of Florida in 2014. The site where Jimmy Ryce was dropped off by the school bus remains a memorial site in Redland to this day. The area has many historic markers that tell the history of certain spots. Geography The geographical center of Redland is (coincidentally, the site of the long since demolished Seaboard rail depot), and its elevation . Historically, Redland was the area bordered by Krome Avenue on the east, Biscayne Drive on the south, the Everglades on the west, and Eureka Drive on the north. As is the case with the