DSC05489,sarona tel aviv
Sarona does not exist anymore, except in history books and in the archives. The once flourishing agricultural settlement in the midst of the isolated plains north of Jaffa, is today part of the [[Tel Aviv City of Tel Aviv]], and known as Hakirya, located along Kaplan Historian Jakob Eisler writes: "The Swabian Templers settlement of Sarona was the first modern agricultural settlement in Palestine and was reputed to be a model settlement by the Jewish "[1] [edit] Establishment With the purchase of approximately 60 hectares of land from a Greek monastery north of Jaffa in August 1871 the history of Sarona began. Part of the Plains of Sharon (after which it was named) near the River Audsche (Yarkon River) it was some four kilometres from the Jaffa settlement. Surveyed by Theodor Sandel (1845-1902) it was officially named Sarona on 18 October 1871 when the first settlers started to moved there immediately. Extreme hardship and disease took a heavy toll in human life the first few years. Unaccustomed to the scourge of malaria (the cause of which was still unknown then and assumed to be - as the name suggests - due to bad air) 28 of the 125 settlers of Sarona died in 1872 alone. In an effort to improve the conditions the marshy land was cultivated and in the first large scale reforestation in modern Palestine 1300 Eucalyptus (the so-called "fever dissipating trees") were planted. By 1889, 269 persons lived in Sarona, in 41 houses. 30 other building included community buildings a winery, workshops, barns and sheds. The Sarona settlers brought modern farming tools and practices to the Holy Land. They focussed on crops and products they could readily sell, and this "agriculture-for-profit" was an economic innovation in a land that for centuries had practiced only "self-sustaining farming". Grain crops and dairy industry first, then orchards and vineyards were planted. Faced with a shortage of financial resources for infra-structure development t
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Location: tel aviv, hakiria,israel
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Keywords: agricultural, buildings, earliest, established, high, modern, palestine., plain, sarona, settlement, sharon, templer, villages
