King Solomon Rathel and Marvel Funderburk King Solomon Rathel was born to Martin and Mary Rathel on September 30, 1895, in Donalsonville, Georgia. Family members are listed as “Rathel” in...
King Solomon Rathel and Marvel Funderburk King Solomon Rathel was born to Martin and Mary Rathel on September 30, 1895, in Donalsonville, Georgia. Family members are listed as “Rathel” in...
The American Legion is a United States war veterans’ organization established in Paris, France, March 15, 1919, by a thousand officers and men, delegates from all the units of the American...
The Miami Theatre, c. 1947 Located between such historic structures such as the Shoreland Arcade and the Alfred I. Dupont Building, one wouldn’t think that a dilapidated shopping mall was...
A portion of the former A1A was heavily damaged in 2016 by Hurricane Matthew and has since been abandoned. State Road A1A is a state road that runs along the Atlantic Ocean, from the southern tip of...
The design of the stadium is reminiscent of the Miami Marine Stadium in Miami, Florida Parque José Martí in Havana, Cuba was originally designed in the 1940s under the Fulgencio Batista regime...
Roddey Burdine, founder of Burdines Burdines was a department store chain operating in Florida with its flagship store located in downtown Miami. Its origin dates back to 1897 when Henry Payne and...
A circa 1943 view of the interior of the massive NAS Richmond blimp hangar, showing 5 Navy blimps & a blimp gondola undergoing maintenance. Lieutenant Nelson Grills and his crew of nine...
Calstrom Field The G. Pierce Wood Memorial Hospital is a former psychiatric hospital located on the grounds of the former Carlstrom military airfield. Carlstrom Field was established in 1917, just...
Crandon Park Zoo brochure, 1960s In late August and early September 1965, a hurricane spun across the Atlantic Ocean, looping, pausing and backtracking like some terrible ballerina trying to keep her...
View of a control tower at the naval base, 1962. Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida On September 11, 1940, the U.S. Navy opened Naval Air Station Lee Field in honor of Ensign Benjamin Lee who...
Claude Nolan Cadillac Building The Claude Nolan Cadillac Building on Main Street was originally designed by Henry J. Klutho, famous in northeast Florida for his Prairie Style architectural designs...
American Beach Evans Rendezvous was a well-known African-American nightclub located on American Beach, a historic coastal community that gained popularity among African American vacationers in the...
First built in 1946, the Walburne Hotel stood at 125 Ocean Drive on South Beach. The architecture was a typical example of MiMo, or Miami Modern, influenced by both Art Deco and the Streamline Modern...
Postcard depicting the Escape Hotel, c. 1950s The Escape Hotel was one of many pioneering hotels built on Fort Lauderdale beach by George Gill Jr. who became known as the father of Broward County...
Photo Credit: State Archives of Florida; Florida Memory, 1952 Native to China, where tung oil has been produced for centuries, tung trees were introduced to the South in the early 1900s and soon...
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