A luxurious hotel at its time the Fenway Hotel began construction in 1924. Its proposal lied on the influx of “snowbird” visitors that would fly down to Florida during the winter season and the demand for more hotels to accommodate them. Built on…
The rich history of Honeymoon Island starts before colonization in the America’s where a local Native American tribe, the Tocobago, occupied the island surviving off its abundant sea-life and the coastal resources. The Tocobago tribe’s history…
The Hovey Brothers were well known around the city of Dunedin in the early twentieth century for opening the first maintenance and hardware shop located on Main Street in the downtown district of Dunedin. The brothers opened other garages and shops…
The Hotel Dunedin was a seasonal room and board house for people vacationing to Dunedin. Built by the Bull sisters in the 1880s, this historic hotel received much business during the Depression of the 1930s. Though having endured several remodels the…
The building was built in the early 1900’s by Cummer and Son Cypress Co., and had to be moved out of the Green Swamp in Sumter County to be brought to Cracker Country Museum. The post office building was originally used as a logging camp in the…
Daniel H. Smith’s family moved to Florida in the mid 1800’s and ended up north of Zephyrhills. Willis Smith raised 8 boys and 4 girls and one of the children, Daniel Smith, moved eight miles west of Zephyrhills into Wesley Chapel. In the area…
Alderman Carlton moved his family from Georgia to Florida in 1843 using the Florida Armed Occupation Act to receive land. This would allow Alderman to receive 160 acres of land as long as he built a house on his land and cultivated part of the…
There are many areas throughout the United States that bear the names of Confederate generals and leaders of the Civil War. Used as a tribute to the memorialization of the Confederacy and the “Lost Cause,” these symbols litter the American…
The history of the Confederate monument residing at the Courthouse of Hillsborough County in Tampa, FL, began as early as 1903. That year, Azeele Carruthers, President of the Tampa Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, No. 113,…
Fort Brooke was active during the American Civil War and was attacked on two different occasions by Northern forces during the war, the Battle of Fort Brooke (and Battle of Ballast Point) and the fort’s eventual capture on May 6th, 1864 by the…
