Early History Florida Prison Farm No. 2 The Glades Correctional Institution was established in 1932 as Florida Prison Farm #2, located between Belle Glade and Pahokee. The prison was described as...
Early History Florida Prison Farm No. 2 The Glades Correctional Institution was established in 1932 as Florida Prison Farm #2, located between Belle Glade and Pahokee. The prison was described as...
Undated photograph of the bat house The Sugarloaf Key Bat Tower, also known as the Perky Bat Tower, was built in 1929 by Richter Clyde Perky, a real estate developer from Denver who owned a fishing...
Rowers pass by Annie the Dragon, date unknown Located on Merritt Island, the Dragon Point Mansion was built in 1961. The estate featured three fireplaces, wraparound cedar decks, teak parquet...
Established in 1992, Wings Aviation was a business located in Building 903 at Miami International Airport and repaired aircraft and heavy equipment. The services they provided are described below:...
According to the company website: “Rubber hoses made back in the early 1900s were comprised of pure gum rubber tapped from the Amazonian trees, which often grow more than 100 feet high. The...
A Brief History of Phosphate Mining in Florida Noralyn Mine is a phosphate mine located in the Bone Vallery region of Florida. The Hawthorn Foundation is a layer of clay and limestone deposited...
Located at the Intracoastal Mall in North Miami Beach, it opened in the late-1980s as an eight-screen movie theater. Despite renovations in later years, customers complained of it being outdated and...
Once a low-income housing complex built in the 1960s, it became the subject of a decade long court battle for ownership of the property. In 2005, 206 mainly elderly investors pitched in $25,000...
The Glades Inn was built in 1988 and was really nothing special about it, just your typical motel located at the end of town. It closed down in 2006. In 2015, the county took control of the property...
Photo Credit: William Ackel, 1994 The Xanadu house was one of a series of experimental homes marketed as the “home of the future” built to showcase examples of computers and automation in...
The first edition of the Miami Evening Record was published on September 15, 1903. The newspaper began suffering from server financial difficulties following the recession in 1907. Frank B. Shutts...
Fashion Mall opened in early 1988 with Lord and Taylor as an anchor store. Macy’s opened as the mall’s second anchor store, just before the 1988 holiday season and before the completion...
One of the home’s unique features was the swimming pool which was built within the middle of the home Located in Islamorada, the “UFO House” has always been a landmark of the area...
Deland Grove House Prior to the construction of the Putnam Hotel, the first hotel on this site was built in 1880 by Henry Addison DeLand, the city’s founder. Surrounded by fields of citrus...
The Carefree Theatre The former Carefree Theater once located on the corner of Dixie Highway and Flamingo Drive began as an ice cream parlor and coin laundry. In 1939, the building was bought by...
Originally known as Port Malabar Lanes, the 24 lane bowling alley opened in 1972 at 2170 Port Malabar Blvd NE, Palm Bay, Florida. At the time, it was Palm Bay’s only bowling center until the...
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