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El Jobean Grand Hotel | Photo © 2012 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

El Jobean Hotel

The Town of Southland The El Jobean Hotel is a historic hotel built in the town of El Jobean, located in what was once part of Manatee County. The area located on the northeast bank of the Myakka...

Lee School | Photo © 2014 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Lee School

Lee School Lee School, also known as Leesburg High School and later known as the Lee Adult Education Center, is a historic school in Leesburg. The first schools in Leesburg were private institutions...

Plantation Paradise | Photo © 2018 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Plantation Paradise

Plantation Paradise Born on February 23, 1999, in Rutledge, Pennsylvania, Harold Jackson Emminger came to Florida during World War II as an Air Force captain stationed at MacDill Air Force Base...

Wild Waters | Photo © 2018 @mickshutter

Wild Waters

Postcard for Silver Springs Wild Waters was a water park located in Silver Springs, Florida, and was the sister park of Silver Springs Nature Theme Park, the site of Florida’s oldest commercial...

Marion S. Whaley Citrus Packing House | Photo © 2011 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Marion S. Whaley Citrus Packing House

Marion S. Whaley Citrus Packing House Marion Seabrook Whaley was a prominent local fruit farmer with many groves located around Rockledge, where he developed the unique Red Tangelo. In 1930, he had a...

Saint Luke Baptist Church | Photo © 2019 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Saint Luke Baptist Church

  The church years before its destruction. Photo Credit: Jim Dourney, 2015 Saint Luke Baptist Church, also known as Saint Luke Missionary Baptist Church, was a historic church located in Marianna. It...

Cuki the Melbourne Ghost Ship | Photo © 2018 Bullet

Cuki the Melbourne ‘Ghost Ship’

  Signs were placed around the boat warning people to stay off the boat Following Hurricane Irma, a morning jogger reported a sailboat named Cuki stranded on a beach in Melbourne. It had come from...

Robert Hungerford Preparatory High School | Photo © 2018 Tosh

Robert Hungerford Preparatory High School

  Hungerford Highschool yearbook photo taken in 1965 On August 15, 1887, the town of Eatonville was incorporated, making it one of the first self-governing all-black townships in the United States...

The Colony Beach and Tennis Resort | Photo © 2017 Jake Williams & BrightSunFilms

The Colony Beach and Tennis Resort

  Photo Courtesy of Jake Williams and BrightSunFilms The Colony was first constructed in 1952 by Sarasota developer Herb Field, which was then a collection of charming beach cottages and a popular...

Green Gables | Photo © 2017 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Green Gables

William Twining Wells, Inventor Green Gables, also known as the Wells House, is a historic house built by William T. Wells in Melbourne along the Indian River. William Twining Wells was born in...

The River Preserve | Photo © 2018 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

The River Preserve

  The buildings have a nice view of the river Located in Wabasso, the current condominium project known as ‘The River Preserve’ wasn’t the first plan for the 31-acre site situated...

Old Trilby Colored Cemetery | Photo © 2018 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Old Trilby Colored Cemetery

  Some of the few graves that are clean Located in the small town of Trilby, down a dirt road and set back in the woods of a residential neighborhood is a small cemetery mostly known only to locals...

Mt. Zion Primitive Baptist Church | Photo © Bullet 2016, www.abandonedfl.com

Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church

Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church The Mount Zion Primitive Baptist Church was founded in the late 1800s by pioneer African-American families from northern Florida and Georgia who settled in what...

Perfecto Garcia Cigar Factory | Photo © 2018 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Perfecto Garcia Brothers Cigar Factory

The Perfecto Garcia Brothers cigar factory, 1936. Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System The Perfecto Garcia Brothers cigar company was established in Ybor City in 1905 by four Garcia...

Okie Bland House | Photo © 2018 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Okie Bland House

  Off of US Hwy 1 in Sebastian, overgrown and invested with bees, are the remains of a Spanish-style building known as the Okie Bland House. From my searches, there isn’t much information about...

Samuel I. Davis Cigar Factory | Photo © 2016 Bullet, www.abandonedfl.com

Samuel I. Davis Cigar Factory

Postcard depicting the Samuel I. Davis Cigar Factory. It should be noted that the spelling of Davis’ name differs between advertisements and historical documents as some spell it Samuel I...

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