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The Villages were developed during the foundational real estate boom of the 1920s, and subsequently came to a halt by the end of the decade due to a cascading series of factors in its later half that included the 1926 Miami Hurricane, the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, the arrival of the Mediterranean fruit fly, and the onset of the Great Depression with the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
It was originally constructed as the childhood residence of George E. Merrick, founder of the city of Coral Gables.. On April 13, 1973, it was added to the National Register of Historic Places, and since then it has been restored to its 1925 appearance by the City of Coral Gables, and is open to the public for tours twice a week.
George Edgar Merrick (June 3, 1886 – March 26, 1942) was a real estate developer who is best known as the planner and builder of the city of Coral Gables, Florida in the 1920s, one of the first major planned communities in the United States.
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Merrick is a hamlet and census-designated place (CDP) in the Town of Hempstead in Nassau County, on the South Shore of Long Island, in New York, United States. As of the 2019 census [update] , the population was 20,130.
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