The Greenway region earned a world reputation as the Agricultural Heart of the South, the Breadbasket of the Confederacy, and the Breadbasket of Florida, with farm products shipped widely from more than 400 working farms in the 1800s along the Ocklawaha and Withlacoochee Rivers, including alfalfa, corn, sugar cane, peppers, Chinese peaches, and German millet, and the arrival of the Florida Railroad increased their value. Peanut production has remained a major business in the region for more than 100 years, focused on green peanuts and roasting peanuts such as Runners, Valencia, Virginia, and Spanish, with about half of the thousands of acres devoted to peanuts grown for peanut butter. Citrus also remained important: after wild citrus grew in Florida's forests and farmers developed orange groves in the St. John's River area in the mid-1800s, the Great Freeze of 1894-95 ruined many groves and pushed many growers farther south, but citrus production stayed strong in the Greenway area until World War II.