The First Florida Land Boom had skyrocketed the population of the State of Florida seemingly overnight. but by 1928 it was slowing down. However, the Okeechobee region remained largely rural, with small towns popping up like Bell Glade or Clewiston. However what was coming in September of 1928 would further bring a halt to the Land Boom and would bring widespread devastation to the Lake Okeechobee area. The events that follow would go on to inspire Floridian African American writer Zora Neale Hurston in her famous Book "Their Eyes Were Watching God."
