Meet Sir Lancelot Jones....
For nearly a century, the Jones family thrived on Porgy Key and other islands at the southern end of Biscayne National Park. That an initial $300 investment in land could parlay into total resale of nearly $1.5 million is all the more astonishing when one recognizes that most African-Americans living in the south in the early 20th-century were barely able to eke out a living, much less become millionaire.
For nearly a century, the Jones family thrived on Porgy Key and other islands at the southern end of Biscayne National Park. That an initial $300 investment in land could parlay into total resale of nearly $1.5 million is all the more astonishing when one recognizes that most African-Americans living in the south in the early 20th-century were barely able to eke out a living, much less become millionaire.
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