When you think about making your dreams come true, what does it take? You need a specific plan, the dedication to see it through, and probably the cooperation of others and financial backing. Timing and luck would be a bonus. The bigger your dream, however, the more it takes. Hibbard Casselberry’s dream was to build a thriving town out of the wilderness of Florida.

In this story, exceptional care has been taken to interject true, yet relatively unknown, stories that happened during these forty exceptional years in American history, and which are made even more relevant in our own times of economic uncertainty. And to that point, the story is told using the actual dollar amount, and today's value as computed by www.measuringworth.com and rounded off and displayed in parenthesis.