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He enrolled in his working legion the pick of mechanics , stokers , iron-founders , lime-burners , miners , brickmakers , and artisans of every sort , white or black without distinction of colour . Many of them brought their families with them . It was quite an emigration . On the 31st of October , at 10 a.m. , this troop landed on the quays of Tampa Town . The movement and activity which reigned in the little town that had thus doubled its population in a single day may be imagined . In fact , Tampa Town was enormously benefited by this enterprise of the Gun Club , not by the number of workmen who were immediately drafted to Stony Hill , but by the influx of curious idlers who converged by degrees from all points of the globe towards the Floridian peninsula . During the first few days they were occupied in unloading the flotilla of the tools , machines , provisions , and a large number of plate iron houses made in pieces separately pieced and numbered .