History Architecturally significant as an example of early 20th-century industrial design, the Boulware Springs Waterworks offers a unique, aesthetically pleasing intersection of technology and...
History Architecturally significant as an example of early 20th-century industrial design, the Boulware Springs Waterworks offers a unique, aesthetically pleasing intersection of technology and...
History of Farris and Company Farris and Company was one of Jacksonville’s most significant early-20th-century meatpacking enterprises, a reminder that, unlike many Florida cities, Jacksonville’s...
History of the Bulow Plantation Ruins Bulow Plantation Ruins Historic State Park, located in Flagler Beach, Florida, is a Florida State Park that preserves the remnants of a once-thriving antebellum...
History of the Old Dummett Plantation Mill Ruins The Dummett Plantation Mill ruins are the remains of an early-19th-century sugar mill and rum distillery once operated by the Dummett family on...
History of the New Smyrna Sugar Mill Ruins In 1830, William Kemble entered into a contract to construct a steam-operated sugarcane mill and a sawmill for merchant speculators William DePeyster and...
Hamilton Disston, c.1870 Hamilton Disston was an industrialist and lesser-known figure in Florida’s history who purchased four million acres of Florida land in 1881. His land purchase and...
A newspaper clipping found by Jeff Carowitz of Houston Mod, who recognized the building and then found a newspaper clipping from the day of the plant’s groundbreaking ceremony. Located in...
Central Hershey Milton Snavely Hershey, the founder of The Hershey Company, first visited Cuba in January 1916. He fell in love with the country and its people, describing the country as an eternal...
History of the Nichols Phosphate Mine Nichols plant’s wet bin, where rail cars bring in the wet phosphate. c. 1910s. State Library and Archives of Florida Nichols, Florida: A Company Town in...
Ford’s Early Years Henry Ford founded the Ford Motor Company on June 16, 1903, with $28,000 in cash from twelve investors, most notably John and Horace Dodge, who had founded their own company...
History of Florida Furniture Industries The Wilson Cypress and Selden Cypress Door Companies Florida Furniture Industries’ origins date back to October 15, 1891, when Henry S. Wilson and A. E...
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...
The water plant was known to be where prostitutes and drug users hung out at The water plant complex, which was located at 1021 Burlington Street, was built in the 1930s and supplied water to the...
PotashCorp Phosphate Terminal, 1977. In early-1966, Occidental Agricultural Chemicals Corporation opened a $3 million automated phosphate rock, triple superphosphate, and diammonium phosphate...
History of the Perfecto Garcia Bros. Cigar Factory The Perfecto Garcia Brothers cigar factory, 1936. Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System Establishment of Perfect Garcia & Bros. The...
Samuel I. Davis Cigar Company Samuel I. Davis was a native New Yorker who learned the cigar trade at a young age in his hometown. After being a salesman for Julius Ellinger Co., he founded the Samuel...
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