This 30-acre preserve includes prehistoric shell middens and a burial mound dating from 3,000 B.C. to 1,000 A.D., buildings from the homestead of John Greene Webb, and gardens from the winter estate of Mrs. Potter Palmer. In 1975, it became the . . . — — Map (db m60326) HM
Bequeathed by his daughter
Elsa Scherer Burrows 1884-1955
in memory of her father 1856-1923
"That man may last, but never lives,
who much receives, but nothing gives;
whom none can love, - whom none can thank,
creation's blot, . . . — — Map (db m125017) HM
The Osprey School served the Osprey and Vamo communities from 1927 through June 1976. It was one of four boom-time schools which were designed by Tampa architect M. Leo Elliot and built along the Tamiami Trail between 1926 and 1928.
The land . . . — — Map (db m38423) HM
South Creek Trestle
In early 1900 Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) controlled 2,600 miles of track stretching from Virginia to Florida. In 1911 SAL constructed a 16.5-mile extension from Sarasota (Fruitville Junction) to Venice. The bridge . . . — — Map (db m125012) HM
