The town had a filling station, creational center, clubhouse, theater, medical clinic, schools, post office, swimming pool, phosphate mines, filling station, doctors office, commissary, church etc etc... It was actually a very large town that depended on its mining. The town had separate mines and was segregated with blacks and whites. 

The smoke stack which is actually one of the last structures standing within the town was one of the first things built ironic indeed. Around 1962 the town was starting to shut down. When the towns people learned that it was closing they were given a choice to either buy their home or move it. If they did not it would be demolished.

Many of those villagers bought their houses then moved on towards other nearby towns like Fort Meade, Bartow, Mulberry, Bradley Junction, Tampa etc eventually the town slowly started to decade except for a few shops, main office, drying plant, and chemical plant stayed open till about the 1970s. In 1976 the town was completely toppled when the Fort Lonesome Mine was built and all Brewster business affairs were moved there.

Today if you were to walk in the town of Brewster the only thing remaining would be the power plant, smoke stack, a few foundations, and an old set of railroad tracks.  Not to far away from the power plant is an abandoned filler station and bar. Part of the land deed was turned over to the state of Florida for partial payment of a judgment against the American Cynamid for the environmental damages they caused. 

It is really is a sad area when walking through it you cannot believe that all of it is gone despite the black and white photos I have found. The main road into the town the grass grows higher then me. There are rolling hills of fauna and brush. The power plant still stands but is falling apart and getting to this ghost town was a huge challenge for us. 

I once ready a story about a man who grew up here as a boy and was a victim of the closing of the town. He came back years later to find his home abandoned and falling apart. Now when you walk around its hard to believe any homes were standing but the area is very wide open so one can feel that something use to be here as you walk down the abandoned roads. 

It also seems like an area that hobos, homeless, adventurous kids have gone up to the old power plant for shelter and adventure. But in my opinion its a pretty eerie dangerous place. One wrong fall could cause some serious injury with all the rubble surrounding the power plant but the nice thing about investigating is that you can now only use your imagination and feel what this town was all about but you get to experience the ghost of the past as well despite the town is no longer there.

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