Davie is a town, not a city, and horseback riding is still common on its trails. Barns, paddocks and outbuildings add hiding places for pests that an ordinary subdivision lot does not have.
Davie became a town on November 16, 1925, on swampland the state had reclaimed. Businessman Robert Parsell Davie bought 44 square miles of it to develop farms, and settlers renamed their town, first called Zona, after him. The 2020 census lists 105,691 residents, the most of any Florida town. Bergeron Rodeo Grounds, Flamingo Gardens and the Old Davie School are among its landmarks.
The town keeps equestrian trails with unpaved paths for riders, and the oldest campsites found at Pine Island Ridge date back 5,000 to 7,000 years. Florida also studies its pests here: the University of Florida's Fort Lauderdale Research and Education Center stands on College Avenue and houses the university's termite collection. We lean on that research, and where animals live on the property we plan treatments around horses, dogs and water troughs.