GENERAL FRANCIS LITTLEBURY DANCY and THE 'DANCY TANGERINE'

GENERAL FRANCIS LITTLEBURY DANCY WAS BORN IN EDGECOMBE COUNTY, NORTH CAROLINA. HE GRADUATED FROM THE UNITED STATES MILITARY ACADEMY IN 1825, IN THE SAME CLASS AS ROBERT E. LEE AND STONEWALL JACKSON.  HE RESIGNED HIS COMMISSION IN 1836, WORKED IN THE CIVIL ENGINEERING PROFESSION, AT WHICH TIME HE REPAIRED OLD FORT MARION AND BUILT A SEAWALL(THE FIRST OF IT'S KIND) AT SAINT AUGUSTINE, FLORIDA. THE WALL STILL PROTECTS THE CITY OF SAINT AUGUSTINE(1961).

THE GENERAL MARRIED MISS FLORIDA FORSYTH REID, DAUGHTER OF FLORIDA GOVERNOR ROBERT REID. HE WAS ALSO ELECTED MAYOR OF SAINT AUGUSTINE.

GENERAL DANCY IS CREDITED WITH DEVELOPMENT OF THE ORANGE FAMILY FRUIT KNOWN AS THE TANGERINE. ALL OF THE EARLY TANGERINES GROWN IN FLORIDA AND CUBA WERE THE RESULT OF HIS WORK AND WERE CALLED "DANCY TANGERINES".

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