The history on this website comes from professional studies, public records, published local history, news reports, and the Hanson family's own papers and memories. The main sources are listed below.
Professional studies
- Harrington, Timothy A., and Robert S. Carr. "Historical Survey of the Hanson Farmhouse, Cooper City, Florida." Archaeological and Historical Conservancy, Inc., July 2023. The survey cites newspaper reports from the Fort Lauderdale News and the Miami Herald, 1916 to 1943, on Ralph Horton, the Yeagers, and the Rakestraws.
- Bender & Associates, Architects, P.A. "Historic Structure Report, 10550 Griffin Road." Key West, Florida, July 1, 2023.
Government records
- Florida Bureau of Historic Preservation. PSIQ (Preliminary Site Information Questionnaire) response finding the farmhouse potentially eligible for the National Register of Historic Places, Dec. 13, 2023.
- Broward County Historic Preservation Board. "Historic Site Summary Sheet: Hanson House," June 18, 2026.
- U.S. Census, 1940 (Minton household, page 2).
Published local history
- Weismantle, Kimberly Stansell. Images of America: Davie. Arcadia Publishing, 2021.
- Citrus Industry magazine. "Pieces of the Past: Davie, South Florida's Historic Citrus Center." July 25, 2024.
- Flamingo Gardens. "History" and media and press kit (flamingogardens.org).
Hurricane history
- National Weather Service, Miami. "Great Miami Hurricane of 1926" (weather.gov/mfl/miami_hurricane), and Richard Gray (U.S. Weather Bureau, Miami), narrative of the 1926 hurricane, Monthly Weather Review.
- Monthly Weather Review. "North Atlantic Hurricanes and Tropical Disturbances of 1947," hosted by the National Hurricane Center (nhc.noaa.gov/data/mwreview/1947.pdf).
- National Hurricane Center, Tropical Cyclone Report for Hurricane Irene (AL131999), on rainfall across southeast Florida.
- National Hurricane Center. "Hurricanes in History." NOAA Historical Hurricane Tracks and HURDAT2.
- HurricaneCity, "Fort Lauderdale, Florida Hurricanes," and Storm2K listing of major hurricanes striking Broward County.
Plant and nursery references
- Florida Exotic Pest Plant Council (now the Florida Invasive Plant Council), invasive plant lists (carrotwood; bischofia, Bischofia javanica, also called bishopwood).
- Betrock's Plant Finder (trade guide in which Hanson Nursery listed its trees, about the 1980s to 2015).
Photographs
- Miami Herald, 1929, photograph of Ralph A. Horton at a meeting of the state Drainage Board in Miami, as published in the Carr survey
- Photographs of the Minton children and of the late-1930s farmhouse, courtesy of Old Davie School; family photographs, including the late-1930s photo of the house, from the Minton family.
Family papers and accounts
- Abstract of Title No. 43692, Lauderdale Abstract & Guaranty Title Co., March 6, 1947 (a private title company's compilation, in the family's papers).
- Letter on the 1947 flood by Mark Gibson, John Hanson's brother-in-law, shared with permission of his family.
- Hanson, Ellen. "History in Our Midst: The Story of the Hanson Farmhouse." Unpublished, Sept. 20, 2023.
- Hanson, Bill. Remarks to the Broward County Historic Preservation Board, Sept. 17, 2026.
- Hanson, Bill and Ellen. Letter to the Broward County Historic Preservation Board ("Qualified No-Objection"), Sept. 10, 2026.
- Hanson, John. Letter to Ellen, Bill and Brian after John Minton Jr.'s visit (undated; about 2001 to 2002).
- Obituary of John Henry Minton Jr. Citrus County Chronicle, via Legacy.com, December 2020.
- Recollections of Bill Hanson, including conversations of Nov. 7 and Nov. 9, 2026, and his recollection of John Minton Jr.'s telephone call.
Correspondence and assistance
- Kim Weismantle, Old Davie School Historical Museum. Emails to the Hansons on Ralph Horton (July 21, 2022, with newspapers.com clippings) and on the Minton family and the 1940 census (March 28 to 29, 2024), with photographs.
- George Anderson's recollection of the Mintons, as quoted in the Historical Survey (Harrington and Carr, July 2023).
Acknowledgments
With thanks to those who have helped:
- Old Davie School
- The Archaeological and Historical Conservancy
- The Broward Trust for Historic Preservation
- History Fort Lauderdale