Slender and sandy, Egmont Key strategically guards the primary shipping lane in and out of Tampa Bay. It is home to a lighthouse and has a long history as a US military outpost. During the Third...
Slender and sandy, Egmont Key strategically guards the primary shipping lane in and out of Tampa Bay. It is home to a lighthouse and has a long history as a US military outpost. During the Third...
A postcard depicting the Bahia Honda bridge during its operation Located on the west end of Bahia Honda Key, the bridge was originally built between 1905 and 1912 by Henry Flagler as part of the...
Up until the early 1930s, South Florida was mostly inhospitable swampland. It wasn’t until after the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers set out to build a levee...
Photo Credit: State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory, 1939 – Central Florida Tuberculosis Hospital, later known as the Sunland Training Center for Retarded Children. Around 1952, a new...
Raz Island Located in the middle of Bay Lake, there is an island known today as Discovery Island, which is owned by Walt Disney World. The island though has a long history going as far as the early...
The prison was used by locals for paintball and airsoft Back in the 1900s, the area now known as Deep Lake was acquired by Walter Langford and John Roach, with plans to develop the land into a...
Inside the lounge area of the Morn Staff Car, which would later be one of several railcars abandoned behind a warehouse in South Florida. 1961 History of the “Dorothy Walker Bush Great...
The A.T. Cameron, now known as the R/V Arctic Discoverer. ArcticDiscoverer.com The R/V Arctic Discoverer According to Richard Jacquot, the R/V Arctic Discoverer originally entered service as the A.T...
Opening on July 4, 2008, South Beach Orlando featured 144 suites which can be rented out a months at a time at a “reasonable” rate. Within months, it received many poor and rather odd...
Anderson’s Corner, c. 1985 History of the William Anderson General Store Standing at the corner of Southwest 157 Ave and Southwest 232nd Street in Miami for over a hundred years, the wood...
Nestled into the coast of the Indian River Lagoon, where south Florida and central Florida first start to merge, sits an incredible historical house – once undoubtedly one of the most beautiful...
History of the Aerojet Dade Rocket Facility In 1957, Sputnik was launched, becoming the first human-made object to orbit the Earth. This event sparked a space race between the United States and the...
In the late-1800s, Hamilton Disston embarked on a large-scale project to drain the Everglades, using the reclaimed land for agricultural purposes. He partially succeeded, having reclaimed much of the...
Public School Number Four Also known as Annie Lytle School, Public School Number Four was originally a small wooden schoolhouse built in 1891 called Riverside Park School. Due to a population...
The Cold War in South Florida Nike Missile Site HM-40 was built in direct response to the Cuban Missile Crisis, widely regarded as the moment the Cold War came closest to erupting into full-scale...
History of Port Bougainville Environmental Destruction in North Key Largo By the early 1970s, unregulated dredging and filling threatened to transform the Florida Keys into a “concrete jungle...
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