"I love it here. It’s the best place to relax."
Andrew Duda had faith.
He had faith in America when he immigrated here in 1909 from his native Slovakia.
He had faith in the 1920s that he could turn 40 acres of Central Florida muckland that he had bought for $800 into profitable farmland.
In the 1940s, his sons had faith that 43,000 acres of scrubland in Brevard County they had just purchased could be turned into a thriving cattle ranch.
In the late 1980s, his descendants had faith that they could transform that same ranchland into a thriving new community of homes and businesses.
They decided to name that community "Viera," the Slovak word for faith.
It was a drumbeat of faith that kept them going — and growing — in more ways than one, for over a century in Central Florida.
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