John’s Pineapples
The August 28, 1908 edition of the Miami News reported that John Sample had planted 40 acres of pineapple in Pompano for the Peninsula Fruit Company, of which he was a manager. Sample had previisously planted 35 acres of pineapples the previous summer.
John Sample was the brother of Albert Neal Sample, who built the Sample-McDougald House in 1916. After several years in Pompano, John and his wife moved to Ft. Pierce.
