The Redland Farm Life School, also known as the Redland Farmlife School, is a historic former school in Redland, Florida, in southern Miami-Dade County. Opened in 1916, it consolidated seven one-room schoolhouses in the area and was at the time the second largest rural consolidated school in the country.
Redland Farm Life School
Students in the school home economics classroom working with two-burner gas stoves at “kitchen compartments” in 1918.
Redland, long known also as the Redlands or the Redland, is a historic unincorporated community and agricultural area in Miami-Dade County, Florida, located about 20 miles (32 km) southwest of downtown Miami and just northwest of Homestead, Florida. It is unique in that it constitutes a large farming belt directly adjoining what is now the seventh most populous major metropolitan area in the United States. Named for the pockets of red clay that cover a layer of oolitic limestone, Redland produces a variety of tropical fruits, many of which do not grow elsewhere in the continental United States. The area also contains a large concentration of ornamental nurseries. The landscape is dotted with u-pick'em fields, coral rock (oolite) walls, and the original clapboard homes of early settlers and other historic early twentieth century structures.
The 1912 Pioneer Guild Hall in Redland, now the Redland Grocery
The 1904 Silver Palm Schoolhouse today
The one-room Redland Schoolhouse in 1907, shortly after construction
The 1911 William Anderson General Merchandise Store at Anderson's Corner, looking southeast from Silver Palm Drive