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
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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
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
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The Hartley House
In 1883, Walton and Louisa Whitehurst sold 80 acres of their land in Curlew to James Hartley. He and his wife, Frances, had recently moved from Danforth, Illinois with their son, Thomas. They later joined . . . — — Map (db m279986) 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
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
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
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
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
In 2014, Tarpon Springs' Greektown was listed as a Historic District and Traditional Cultural Property on the National Register of Historic Places for its unique ethnic heritage and maritime character. Greektown is bounded by the Anclote River on . . . — — Map (db m215070) HM
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The Tarpon Springs Historic District is comprised of two historic elements, the early winter resort and the downtown commercial district. Tarpon Springs’ original plan was laid out by Mathew Marks, a business associate of landowner . . . — — Map (db m174844) HM
After the United States' entry into the Spanish American War, Tampa citizens demanded increased coastal defenses. In November 1898, construction began on a new military post on Mullet Key. Fort De Soto, named in 1900, featured 29 post buildings, . . . — — Map (db m120357) HM
The neighborhood that surrounds the intersection of 22nd Street S. and 9th Avenue S. was once the most important area, in the most vibrant African-American neighborhood, during St. Petersburg's segregation era. By law, African Americans were forced . . . — — Map (db m261646) HM
The neighborhood that surrounds the intersection of 22nd Street S. and 9th Avenue S. was once the most important area, in the most vibrant African-American neighborhood, during St. Petersburg's segregation era. By law, African Americans were forced . . . — — Map (db m262154) HM
The neighborhood that surrounds the intersection of 22nd Street S. and 9th Avenue S. was once the most important area, in the most vibrant African-American neighborhood, during St. Petersburg's segregation era. By law, African Americans were forced . . . — — Map (db m261956) HM
The neighborhood that surrounds the intersection of 22nd Street S. and 9th Avenue S. was once the most important area, in the most vibrant African-American neighborhood, during St. Petersburg's segregation era. By law, African Americans were forced . . . — — Map (db m262025) HM
The neighborhood that surrounds the intersection of 22nd Street S. and 9th Avenue S. was once the most important area, in the most vibrant African-American neighborhood, during St. Petersburg's segregation era. By law, African Americans were forced . . . — — Map (db m262200) HM
The neighborhood that surrounds the intersection of 22nd Street S. and 9th Avenue S. was once the most important area, in the most vibrant African-American neighborhood, during St. Petersburg's segregation era. By law, African Americans were forced . . . — — Map (db m262244) HM
The neighborhood that surrounds the intersection of 22nd Street S. and 9th Avenue S. was once the most important area, in the most vibrant African-American neighborhood, during St. Petersburg's segregation era. By law, African Americans were forced . . . — — Map (db m261638) HM
The neighborhood that surrounds the intersection of 22nd Street S. and 9th Avenue S. was once the most important area, in the most vibrant African-American neighborhood, during St. Petersburg's segregation era. By law, African Americans were forced . . . — — Map (db m262313) HM
The neighborhood that surrounds the intersection of 22nd Street S. and 9th Avenue S. was once the most important area, in the most vibrant African-American neighborhood, during St. Petersburg's segregation era. By law, African Americans were forced . . . — — Map (db m261989) HM
Site of Atwood Grove and Origin of World's 1st Pink Grapefruit
Across U.S. 301 stood the Kimball C. Atwood Grapefruit Grove and Manavista, a town that he founded in 1892 and encircled with 100 (mile-long) rows of trees. Here in 1913 grove . . . — — Map (db m218387) HM
In December, 1945, C. Blythe Andrews re-opened the doors of the Florida Sentinel newspaper at 1511 Central Avenue. The original Florida Sentinel was founded in 1919, in Jacksonville, Florida by Mr. Andrews' father, General William W. Andrews. The . . . — — Map (db m20052) HM
Cultures throughout history left their mark through art. Come and explore the art of architecture from an earlier time and culture here at Letchworth-Love Mounds Archaeological State Park. Constructed between 1,800 and 1,100 years ago by the Weeden . . . — — Map (db m153296) HM
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The Temple Terraces Country Club was built on the site of the 1910 hunting lodge of world renowned Chicago socialite and businesswoman Bertha Honore Plamer's 19,000 acre "Riverhills Ranch." It opened in 1922 as the centerpiece of . . . — — Map (db m93417) HM
When the first burial occurred here in the late 1800s, this land was owned by the McMullen family. It continued to be used as a Black cemetery after the Coachman family purchased the property in 1902. The Coachman family lost the land during the . . . — — Map (db m266919) HM
Why is a Roseate Spoonbill on our Outdoor Signage?
John Alexander Sutton, an early settler, donated land for a church and cemetery—provided he could name the church.
In those days, flocks of birds nested in rookeries along the . . . — — Map (db m252329) 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
From ca. 1000-1700 CE, the indigenous Tocobaga people inhabited a village whose remnants feature in the Jungle Prada site. Archaeologists hypothesize that a micco (chief) lived in a dwelling atop the 12-foot-high platform mound overlooking the . . . — — Map (db m192481) HM
When settlement began in Pass-a-Grille in the 1890s, all commerce came through the bayside dock located at the end of 8th Street, later renamed 8th Avenue. In 1902, Joseph E. Merry built a store on the end of the dock, where he rented boats and . . . — — Map (db m265359) HM
Lynching in America
Thousands of African Americans were victims of lynching and racial violence in the United States between the Civil War and World War II. The lynching of African Americans during this era was a form of racial terrorism . . . — — Map (db m180045) HM
During the segregation era, many hospitals did not treat black people, either because of Jim Crow laws or the prejudiced attitude of the hospital's administrators. Replacing a smaller hospital which had been in operation in the Gas Plant . . . — — Map (db m261751) 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
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
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
After purchasing ten acres of scrub pine and swamp in 1922, Bishop Barry of St. Augustine directed the pastor of St. Mary’s in downtown to begin construction of a school building on this not-so-promising site. Construction began in 1925 and Sunday . . . — — Map (db m40484) HM
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The Old Tarpon Springs High School is a masonry vernacular building, with limited Beaux Arts architectural details, that was designed in 1922 by St. Petersburg architect Emmitt Hull. When Tarpon Springs was incorporated in 1887, it had a . . . — — Map (db m200353) HM
Emma Hill
(ca. 1907 - 1924)
Bootlegging and gambling were part of daily life during the 1920s and 1930s. Although illegal, everyone from noted businessmen and grandmas were known to have participated. On . . . — — Map (db m268097) HM
On March 4, 1919, hundreds of suffragists gathered at 6th St & Central Ave to march in support of Women's Suffrage as part of Kermess Parade. — — Map (db m229484) 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
Rose Cemetery, also known as Rose Hill Cemetery, established in the early 1900s as a segregated cemetery, is the oldest African-American cemetery in Pinellas County. Located on approximately five acres of land, the cemetery reflects the social . . . — — Map (db m53993) HM
The Fort De Soto Quartermaster Storehouse Museum is a reconstruction of the Army Quartermaster Storehouse at Fort De Soto in the early 1900s. This building was used primarily as a warehouse for supplies from 1905 until 1910. At one point, the Army . . . — — Map (db m131894) 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
City Federation of Colored Women’s Clubs
Denied access to white civic groups under segregation, local African-American women sought to establish their own organizations. In 1938, Fannye Ayer Ponder, teacher and wife of local . . . — — Map (db m262728) HM
front plaque: From this site the St. Petersburg-Tampa Airboat Line, The World's First Scheduled Airline, began regular flights between St. Petersburg and Tampa, January 1, 1914.
This plaque and site dedicated December 4, 1953 by the . . . — — Map (db m50437) 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 m298024) 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
This 6-inch Rapid Fire Armstrong Rifle was purchased from England in 1898, because the United States did not yet have the capability to produce a small, rapid fire weapon for the defense of its principal harbors. The advent of the Spanish-American . . . — — Map (db m131889) HM
In the mid 1800's, the family of Josiah Davis settled on
Jump Off Mountain. Shortly thereafter Josiah, his wife,
and his son, J.M. (Mountain Man) Davis, used dynamite
and an oxen pulled sled to begin building the road known
today as Davis . . . — — Map (db m240985) HM
At the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, this area, a sand flat without a tree, but surrounded by an extensive forest, was the camp site of Theodore Roosevelt's Rough Riders, the most unusual regiment in the history of the U. S. Army. . . . — — Map (db m130109) 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 m254670) HM
Within a decade after the famous Wright Brothers' 1903 flight, aviation history was being made in Florida. The first transcontinental flight landed at Jacksonville in 1912, a naval air training center opened at Pensacola in 1913, and the St. . . . — — Map (db m50438) HM
Thin black lines indicate changes in relevance. Between each pair of lines entries are ordered geographically but all have the same relevance.
* Inflectional forms of words are their plurals, singulars, and possessives as well as gramatical tenses and similar variations.
