This public park is dedicated by the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners to the memory of all who have honorably served in the armed forces of the United States of America and to all residents and guests of this county for their wholesome . . . — — Map (db m244395) WM
In 1922, the Brooklyn Dodgers agreed to hold their spring training in Clearwater with the provision that the city would create an appropriate venue. The city broke ground on the Clearwater Athletic Field in December 1922 following the City Council’s . . . — — Map (db m102723) HM
On October 9, 1933 Clearwater's first government post office building was dedicated on this site with Postmaster General James A. Farley officiating. The local postmaster at the time was Charles R. Lee.
This Mediterranean-Revival style . . . — — Map (db m248667) HM
Gift of
The Class of 1992
&
Journalism Students
The artist created "Endangered" from "found objects" of recycled metal, mostly chrome bumpers.
Students are the hope of the future, the environment and its preservation.
Paul . . . — — Map (db m4983) HM
Near this site was located the first public supported school within the present limits of the City of Clearwater. Known as the Taylor Schoolhouse, erected in 1854. The surnames of the pupils included Taylor, Turner, McMullen, Henderson, Johnson, . . . — — Map (db m67061) HM
Named in honor of
President William Henry Harrison
Ninth President of the United States
Washington, D. C.
Hon. Herbert j. Drane,
March 18th, 1935
According to the records of the War Department of the United States, Fort . . . — — Map (db m214939) HM
Harbor Oaks was Clearwater's first planned residential development. Dean Alvord, a major developer in New York state, opened Harbor Oaks in 1914. Bringing modern planning concepts to the Pinellas County area, the development offered innovative . . . — — Map (db m50506) HM
Jack Russell was a local businessman, city commissioner, chairman of the Clearwater baseball committee, and former major league baseball pitcher integral in the construction of a new stadium in the City of Clearwater. Russell advocated for the . . . — — Map (db m146966) HM
Originally built circa 1925, the Magnolia Drive Dock was a Harbor Oaks landmark for many years as a neighborhood gathering spot for picnics, weddings, fishing, block parties, and relaxing evenings watching the sunsets. After standing for 68 years it . . . — — Map (db m3253) HM
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Acknowledging the needs of Clearwater’s growing Black community, the city commission created North Greenwood Cemetery, also known as the ‘Clearwater Colored Cemetery.” On January 2, 1940, the city adopted a resolution that established a . . . — — Map (db m212590) HM
In 1873, the first school under public administration in present-day Pinellas County was established in a log structure originally built for the Midway Baptist Church in the area of what is now the Clearwater Municipal Cemetery. In 1884, the school . . . — — Map (db m135325) HM
Formed in 1912, Pinellas County quickly outgrew its original courthouse and in 1916 the Board of County Commissioners voted in favor of a $160,000 bond issue to finance the construction of a new courthouse and jail. Well-known architect Francis J. . . . — — Map (db m110672) HM
The Seminole Bridge was the original link to Clearwater Beach. Completed in 1917, the wooden bridge opened up access to the beach and paved the way for its first development. The bridge terminated where the Palm Pavilion stands today. It became . . . — — Map (db m3252) HM
Crystal Beach is one of the original communities in Pinellas County. The first settlers came to the area and began homesteading around 1850. In 1912, land developers Dr. J.D. Hanby and A.D. Powers of the Crystal Beach Development Co. platted the . . . — — Map (db m212397) HM
Crystal Beach is one of the original communities in Pinellas County. The first settlers came to the area and began homesteading around 1850. In 1912, land developers Dr. J.D. Hanby and A.D. Powers of the Crystal Beach Development Co. platted the . . . — — Map (db m120365) HM
The Blue Heron Hotel was built in 1917. Reverend Fred C. and Cora Markerts established Faith Mission in Tampa as a children's home in 1923. In 1928, it moved to Crystal Beach and occupied the Blue Heron. Faith Mission grew to peak occupancy of 87 . . . — — Map (db m110446) HM
Distinguished naturalist from Indiana, who from his home across the highway devoted twenty-seven winters, between 1913 and 1940, to the highly skillful exploration of the world of nature around Dunedin and elsewhere in southern Florida, writing some . . . — — Map (db m4733) HM
Before you is the home built in 1915 by Dr. Willis Stanley Blatchley, one of the nation's most renowned naturalists. Dr. Blatchley made significant contributions to the fields of entomology, ornithology, geology, and botany. He authored 13 books and . . . — — Map (db m144150) HM
At the peak of the 1920s “land boom,” Dunedin Isles Golf Club was built to attract new residents to the City of Dunedin. Scotsman Donald Ross, one of the world’s foremost golf course architects, visited the site and designed the golf . . . — — Map (db m67685) HM
Since the 1880’s, this neighborhood has hosted a vibrant African-American community. The residents, some descended from former slaves, migrated from other places and contributed greatly to the development and culture of Dunedin. The local churches . . . — — Map (db m152897) HM
Early Dunedin homesteader B. M. Brown and the Emerson family donated land for the construction of a church in 1876. Before it was built, John G. Andrews lost his brother William, who was killed while riding a horse during a violent storm. Andrews . . . — — Map (db m121848) HM
This Park contains an original Stage coach road known as Old road 37
This was once the main road that ran from Clearwater to Tarpon Springs and dates Back to the early 1920’s
Please come explore the old road — — Map (db m70728) HM
In 1888, this site was the original location of the Orange Belt Railway Station.
A newer station was built in 1900, but burned down.
The present station was built in 1924, and used by the Atlantic Coast Railroad Company until the railroad was . . . — — Map (db m111888) HM
Dedicated to the recipients of this nation’s oldest military decoration, “The Purple Heart”
Military Order of the Purple Heart 1782 • 1932
My stone is red for the blood they shed. The medal I bear is my country’s way to show . . . — — Map (db m13956) HM
The American's Creed
I believe in the United States of America as a government of the people, by the people, for the people, whose just powers are derived from the consent of the governed; a democracy in a republic; a sovereign Nation of many . . . — — Map (db m50509) HM
The LVT (amtrac) is an amphibious vehicle designed from Donald Roebling's Alligator for military operations on land and sea. 18,000 + were produced between 1941 and 1945. Originally built in Dunedin FL, LVTs played a significant role in our victory . . . — — Map (db m120736) HM WM
In this area between Curlew and Cedar Creek along St. Joseph Sound during the month of August, 1941, the first Alligator, which was designed by Donald Roebling and built in Dunedin, was received and launched by elements of the U.S. Marine Corps . . . — — Map (db m120368) HM
Dedicated to recall in the minds of all men those Americans who did not ask but who have repeatedly served under this country's flag to their fullest whenever the cause of freedom and democracy has been threatened anywhere in the world. — — Map (db m217229) WM
Elizabeth Skinner, Florida Equal Suffrage Assn. organized county women here in former library hall. Lobbied for suffrage in Tallahassee 1919. — — Map (db m174829) HM
In memory of
Albert Fielding Lang
“Uncle Al”
Nov. 16, 1870-Feb. 27, 1960
Came to Florida in 1911
Mayor of St. Petersburg:
1916 to 1918-1918 to 1920
Founding President of St. Petersburg
Chamber of Commerce
Brought . . . — — Map (db m129659) HM
The U.S. Department of the Interior has listed the Gulfport Casino in the National Register of Historic Places. This is the third such Casino on this location. The first fell in the 1921 hurricane; the second came down in the early 1930s. Using . . . — — Map (db m135952) HM
This 8.8 acre peninsula was formed over time by deposits of material into the Clam Bayou estuary. During the days of early settlement, it was known as Seagrape Point, where families fished, gathered shells, and picked grapes. In the mid-20th . . . — — Map (db m244065) HM
When in the early 1900s the St. Petersburg and Gulf Electric Railway Company planed their streetcar line to connect with the Gulf beaches, they first had to determine a termination point where boats could meet the trolleys to carry passengers across . . . — — Map (db m135936) HM
Built as the Hotel Rolyat in 1925, these Mediterranean Revival buildings originally were designed by Paul Reed of the Miami architectural firm of Kiehnel & Elliot for developer Jack Taylor. In 1929, after the collapse of the Florida land boom, the . . . — — Map (db m68134) HM
Gulfport was Steven Jay Robin’s adopted home. He loved his little city by the bay. Steve joined the Navy after graduating from H.B. Plant High School and was assigned to the USS Pueblo in 1967. On 23 January 1968 Steve Robin was wounded and taken . . . — — Map (db m217231) HM WM
A Cottage Industry
This simple dwelling, built a shell's throw from the Gulf of Mexico
in the Lone Palm Beach subdivision, was part of a settlement that became Madeira Beach. It was typical of coastal cottages built during the 1930s. . . . — — Map (db m236928) HM
From Nassau to Spring Bayou
Bahamian native Joshua Boyer, already a seasoned sailor, left for Key West before he was 20. He spent the 1870s earning a living from the sea along Florida's sparsely settled west coast. On a fishing trip in 1877, . . . — — Map (db m239040) HM
A Crews Quarters
In the 1840s staff at the Auburn & Syracuse Line Railroad
in New York came up with the idea for a caboose. The
last car of a freight train, the caboose housed the crew
and the conductor's office. The 5 member crew . . . — — Map (db m236695) HM
Frances
The American La France fire engine, nicknamed 'Frances', went into service at the Belleview Hotel in 1917. Imagine a hotel with its own fire truck! The self-sufficient hotel, one of the largest structures on the Pinellas Peninsula, . . . — — Map (db m237367) HM
Speed from shore to shore
The Gandy Bridge, revolutionized travel between Tampa and St. Petersburg. The bridge shortened the distance between the two cities from 43 miles to 10 miles. The Reduction in mileage improved travel and boosted St. . . . — — Map (db m237533) HM
A Cottage with a Clear View of the Water
This was one of the earliest structures to dot the bluffs along the remote landscape of Clear Water Harber when fewer than 20 families lived along the shoreline. This wood frame home originally only . . . — — Map (db m237337) HM
One Stop Shopping
Between 1900 and 1920, St. Petersburg's population soared from 1,575 to more than 14,000. This store opened in the Mound Park neighborhood to serve blossoming nearby communities like Roser Park. Shoppers came to this small . . . — — Map (db m237370) HM
Who Was Harris?
William Harris and his wife, 'Mamie,' raised their 6 children in the rural Lealman area of the Pinellas Peninsula in the early 1900s. William, better known as 'Uncle Bill, farmed citrus and later worked in real estate and . . . — — Map (db m238189) HM
A Queen Anne with a Royal View
This impressive home rested on the bluff in downtown Clearwater near the Pinellas County Courthouse. From its wrap around porch, occupants enjoyed magnificent views of Clearwater Bay and the developing city. The . . . — — Map (db m238846) HM
In Grateful Remembrance
of the men and women of the United States Armed Forces
who served their country with patriotic valor and courage during
World War II
Let Us Never Forget!
Marker placed by the Florida State Society
Daughters of . . . — — Map (db m239139) WM
Building a Bigger Barn
Wesley and Mary Lowe farmed a variety of crops in the Anona region, a community that grew up around Wesley's father's homestead. As their family business grew, so did the need for a larger barn. By 1911 the family . . . — — Map (db m237347) HM
A Full Life
In 1888 Wesley Lowe supervised construction of this home built in Anona for his wife Mary, their children and his father, Captain John Thomas Lowe. The Lowes branched out from a shipping business to become farmers, raising a . . . — — Map (db m238178) HM
The Coachman Story
Here Come the Coachmans
In 1902 Soloman and Jessie Coachman purchased the McMullen homestead, including the cabin and about 240 ocres, for $8,100. They 'modernized' the house by adding glass to the open windows and . . . — — Map (db m236868) HM
The McMullen Story
Cotton, Cattle and Citrus
James and Elizabeth McMullen built this 1 1/2 story log cabin near Alligator Creek, part of present day Clearwater. They raised livestock and farmed, growing a variety of crops including . . . — — Map (db m238203) HM
Life in the Early Years
Daniel and Margaret McMullen and their children built this home in 1868. They come to the Pinellas Peninsula in the early 1850s, following in the footsteps of Daniel's older brother James. During the Civil War years . . . — — Map (db m237390) HM
More Than a Farm Home
George Washington and Frances Moore left Kentucky in 1875 to follow his parents to the Pinellas Peninsula. They built this house next to his parents' plot of land -- just east of Stevenson Creek. George, a blacksmith and . . . — — Map (db m237086) HM
Before Privacy
Families with no indoor plumbing used unsanitary pits or cesspools
to take care of business. These small wooden outhouses provided
a marvelous modern convenience -- for the 1930s that is. Outhouses, or privies, were private . . . — — Map (db m236857) HM
An Unknown Beginning
This building has a mysterious history. It is very similar in style to houses built by the railroad magnate Henry Plant. He built the luxury hotel, The Belleview, and some believe Plant's supervisors, either from the . . . — — Map (db m238256) HM
Methodist Congregation
Originally this church building was in a central location in the growing community of Green Springs renamed Safety Harbor in 1917. Early church members included pioneer families of the upper Pinellas Peninsula, such . . . — — Map (db m238277) HM
A Long Rest and Short Relaxation
This pavilion was an open shelter at a Tarpon Springs cemetery. In earlier times, rural settlers buried their dearly departed in unmarked gravesites near their homes, but when land changed hands, sometimes . . . — — Map (db m238596) HM
A Cure for Meat
Before grocery stores or reliable refrigeration, rural families preserved or 'cured' their meat or fish in smokehouses. While the meat was still fresh, they covered it with a salt based seasoning, about 6-8 pounds of salt . . . — — Map (db m236847) HM
A Warehouse Near the Gulf
Around 1930 Drosos Alahuzos opened a wholesale sponge business in this wood frame warehouse, part of his family's Philadelphia based business. After his death in 1955, another Philadelphia sponge dealer, George . . . — — Map (db m238194) HM
Sweet Success
Dizzy Business
To extract juice from the sugar cane plant, workers fed stalks in between the two rollers and caught the crushed cane as it came out. The cane juice flowed from the grinder into a huge barrel. They rolled the . . . — — Map (db m236851) HM
All Aboard!
Before railroads came to Pinellas, settlers traveled by foot, buggy, or horseback or by boat. The state's first railroad ended at Cedar Key, nearly 100 miles north of the Pinellas Peninsula. In the 1880s, Russian immigrant Peter . . . — — Map (db m238669) HM
A Hand-Me Down School
This building, probably built as a World War I barracks,
was a portable classroom at the all white Tarpon
Springs Elementary School for about 20 years. In
1942 school officials moved the building to the Union Academy . . . — — Map (db m237042) HM
An Earlier Time
Jesse Walsingham came to central Pinellas in the mid 1890s. The young man fell in love with Mary O'Quinn, a member of the McMullen and O'Quinn pioneer families. They exchanged vows and settled in the Largo area before . . . — — Map (db m237466) HM
A Wild City Park
During the late 1880s, St. Petersburg was a sleepy pine scrub village driving to be cosmopolitan. Northerners relocation to this community, both permanent and seasonal residents, helped transform the aspiring town by . . . — — Map (db m239118) HM
In 1895, Dr. Susan K. Whitford and other local women founded the Ozona Ladies Improvement Society, which focused on community development initiatives. Early meetings were held in members' homes, and it was quickly decided that a permanent meeting . . . — — Map (db m110868) HM
The Florida Methodist Conference College, now Florida Southern College, relocated its campus to present-day Palm Harbor in 1902 after purchasing the San Marino Hotel, located at Florida Avenue and Omaha Street. In 1904, the college built an . . . — — Map (db m132917) HM
[panel 1: 1905] This reproduction of a postcard dated 1905 is one of the earliest pictures of Wall Springs. Purchased by Charles F. Wall from the State of Florida in 1876, Wall Springs soon became a popular recreation destination by the end . . . — — Map (db m166177) HM
This area surrounding Pinellas Park's original train station has been a hub of activity since P.J. McDevitt arrived in 1909 to grow sugar cane. In 1912 one of Pinellas Park's pioneers, Walter Bender, built his home in the area now known as Davis . . . — — Map (db m68136) HM
Dedicated September 6, 2008
Designed by Vladimir A. Hostomsky
~ Symbolism of the Sculpture ~
Two glass columns are representative of the World Trade Center towers
Chips of broken glass signify the broken hearts of American people . . . — — Map (db m245019) WM
This area was historically known as Dansville, named for one of its founding residents, Dan Henry. The twelfth of fifteen children, Henry moved here from Dawson, Georgia, with his brother Lloyd’s family in the early 1920s. At the time, citrus groves . . . — — Map (db m210585) HM
This tree is reportedly the oldest living Live Oak Tree in Pinellas County and is estimated to be between 300 to 500 years old. This grand oak tree is registered with The Live Oak Society of the Louisiana Garden Club Federation, Inc. — — Map (db m3244) HM
Menendez, Spanish Governor of Florida, after building fort at St. Augustine (1565) came to this site in 1567 and persuaded the Indian Chief Tocobago and his 1500 braves who lived here, to accept Christianity. Menendez erected a blockhouse for a . . . — — Map (db m46671) HM
On Pentecost Sunday, May 26, 1539, Hernando de Soto sailed into Tampa Bay and named it “Bahia Espiritu Santo” (Holy Spirit Bay). A decade later it is believed that the famed Dominican missionary, Father Luis de Cancer, was martyred . . . — — Map (db m44277) HM
On May 18, 1539, Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto reached the shores of what is now Tampa Bay, landing near these mineral springs used by the native population for nearly 10,000 years. Believing he had found the legendary Fountain of Youth somehow . . . — — Map (db m216413) HM
As the first European settler in Pinellas County he established St. Helena Plantation, now Philippe Park Philippe was the first to cultivate grapefruit in Florida and introduced cigar-making to Tampa His descendants populated this frontier. . . . — — Map (db m13637) HM
On this promontory Count Odet Philippe, a native of Lyon, France, and surgeon in the French Armed Forces under Napoleon Bonaparte settled in 1842, arriving at this point in his sailing vessel "The Ney." In this area he established St. Helena, his . . . — — Map (db m13639) HM
In the 16th century, the Calusa people lived along the coastal areas of southwest Florida and were the largest and most powerful group of indigenous people in South Florida. The Calusa's major rival for power were the Tocobaga. They lived north of . . . — — Map (db m174624) HM
This cottage was constructed in the early 1900's, soon after Safety Harbor's downtown streets were platted. The turn-of-the-century wood frame vernacular structure was identified by the Safety Harbor Historic Building Survey of 1994 as one of the . . . — — Map (db m176037) HM
Commissioned by original owner B. Rhett Green in 1908, this house is classic Victorian style sporting traditional gingerbread in the peaks of the roofline, original hardwood floors, and original walls. The home's builder was William Fletcher . . . — — Map (db m176042) HM
This majestic live oak was named for philanthropist Dr. Salem Baranoff, the former owner of the Safety Harbor Spa. Born in Kiev, Russia (ca. 1880s), Baranoff graduated from the American School of Naturopathy in 1921. In 1945, he purchased the . . . — — Map (db m174758) HM
Between 1949 and 1994, this building served as Safety Harbor's First Dedicated Library. The history of the Safety Harbor Public Library actually began ten years earlier, in November 1938, when the Women's Civic Club established a library at the . . . — — Map (db m176045) HM
Considered to be the oldest on Main Street, in 1917 this brick-structured building is reported to have survived a devastating fire that burned the first block of Main Street to ash. Although it has served as the city's Chamber of Commerce for many . . . — — Map (db m174705) HM
Lover's Oak is a grand live oak tree believed to be more than 200 years old. This tree was a favorite meeting place for many of Safety Harbor's young people and picnic groups from the 1890s to the 1950s. This stately oak tree once had a large lower . . . — — Map (db m146976) HM
This mound was created on December 5, 1981, when Native American remains previously held in the museum collection were reinterred. A traditional burial ceremony was conducted by Native Americans and the Treaty of Tocobaga was signed. The treaty . . . — — Map (db m174549) HM
In 1918, ten women promoted Sunday afternoon services in the public school building in Safety Harbor with the Reverend James T. MacLean of nearby Bethel Presbyterian Church presiding. For four years, the Safety Harbor Presbyterians met in a tent, a . . . — — Map (db m176059) HM
This building at 509 Main Street served as the headquarters of the city's newspaper, the Safety Harbor Herald.
A.G. Waldron started the town's first newspaper, the Tropical Breeze, in 1915. It ran for approximately one year out of a building . . . — — Map (db m176055) HM
This log cabin is the oldest building in Safety Harbor and the oldest log cabin in Pinellas County that is still standing in its original location. The oldest section of the building is believed to have been built circa 1870 with bricks dated as . . . — — Map (db m136151) HM
The first Safety Harbor School opened in 1907 as a two room frame building behind the present day fire station. The school included grades one through eight. In 1916, a new red brick three story school house was constructed at its current location. . . . — — Map (db m174760) HM
Originally the St. James Hotel, this building was constructed by business partners W.E. Sinclair and Virginia Tucker during the Florida land boom of the 1920s and named for Virginia's late husband, James Felix Tucker, a former Captain of the . . . — — Map (db m174699) HM
This building was constructed in 1914 by J.D. McElveen, who named it the Hotel Frances after his first daughter, Frances Viola. His wife, Helen Campbell, was the daughter of George W. Campbell, the city's first mayor (1917-1919).
The Hotel . . . — — Map (db m176054) HM
The Tucker Mansion, a Colonial Revival style mansion, was built in 1923 during the Florida Land Boom by Virginia Hernandez (Bailey) Tucker (1844-1931). Virginia Tucker was the daughter of William James Bailey, a colonel during the Second Seminole . . . — — Map (db m120359) HM
The Temple Mound was built by Native Americans known as the Tocobaga. It is the largest remaining mound in the Tampa Bay region. The mound was made of alternating layers of shell and sand. Remains of posts indicate there was at least one . . . — — Map (db m216588) HM
For 10,000 years, Indians hunted the prairies and fished the waters of what later became Pass-A-Grille. The last group of Native Americans to settle in the Pinellas County area were the Tocobagas around 1000-1700 A.D. This area was first visited by . . . — — Map (db m59486) HM
In 1783, while updating Gulf Coast navigational charts, Jose Antonio de Evia (b. 1740), a Spanish naval officer, visited a Spanish fishing camp located on this site. He called it “Rancho de Juaquin.” Artifacts from the 18th and early . . . — — Map (db m49507) HM
In the late 1920's and the 1930's, the Don Ce Sar Hotel was a renowned luxury resort which counted many notables among its guests. Thomas J. Rowe, a land developer, conceived of the establishment in the mid-20's at the height of the land sales . . . — — Map (db m239446) HM
Here rest the remains of
Almon Brown Strowger
1839-1902
Inventor and Pioneer
whose dream of better telephone service inspired him to invent, in 1889, the first practical automatic telephone system. This plaque placed here in his honor, on . . . — — Map (db m244133) HM
Lest They Be Forgotten
Dedicated Memorial Day May 25, 2015
In memory of Pinellas County’s fallen
killed in action during the Gulf War era
Army SPC Brittany B. Gordon • Army CPL Frank R. Gross • Army SPC Arturo . . . — — Map (db m244412) WM
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