Swindled in the late 1800's 7-8-13

In the late 1800's, like 1885 or so, there were Jewish people that found out about "cheap" land they could buy and settle to build their own homes.  The problem with this "this too good to be true" story was, is that it was too good to be true.  The land was available and they could build on it for very little money but what was not told to them was that they were building very near to the swamp land that had not yet been "dried up".  The swamp was in full swamp glory attracting all kinds of wildlife not just the birds and sadly mosquitos that carried malaria.  The main road of the settlement still exists and we drove down it.  Many of the houses were original ones that were built back in the 1800's.  There are stones marking the homes and they have stories written in Hebrew about the families that built the homes that included where they had immigrated from, the size of their families, how many died of malaria and the update on who is living in the homes now.  Of course the area now is mosquito free because the swamp is basically gone and the people that live in the homes are the great grandchildren of the survivors.