Information came from the book, “Lost Miami: Stories and Secrets Behind Magic City Ruins” which can be purchased from Abandoned Atlas. Royal Crown Company Inc., originally called the Union Bottling...
Information came from the book, “Lost Miami: Stories and Secrets Behind Magic City Ruins” which can be purchased from Abandoned Atlas. Royal Crown Company Inc., originally called the Union Bottling...
The remains of the Cruger-dePeyster sugar mill which was destroyed in the 1830s. Tensions had been growing between the Seminoles, settlers and the U.S. Government. The government’s decision to...
Photo Credit: The Ledger Located on Prairie Mine Road near Mulberry, the massive structure made of 28,000 tons of steel-reinforced concrete was built in 1909 by the Prairie Pebble Phosphate Company...
In 1962, American Beryllium relocated from a nearby building to a new five-building facility at 1600 Tallevast Road, just east of its original location in the former Spindrift facility. From 1962...
East Everglades Closures. The Tower Tract lies within #422. Access is via a single lane paved road east of SW 237th Ave. The road is currently gated. At the end of the road is the collapsing shell of...
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 of the facility after its closure The ACCO Aerated Concrete Systems plant in Apopka, Florida was first built in 1969, when General Electric opened a new factory as part of GE’s lighting...
Theodore Strawn’s packing house for Bob White oranges, c. 1910s. Courtesy of the State Archives of Florida The Strawn Citrus Packing House District is a historic district containing twelve...
Aerojet Dade In 1957, Sputnik was launched, being the first human-made object to orbit the Earth; an event that sparked a space race of who can get to the moon first, between the United States and...
Photo Credit: Florida Photographic Collection, 1920s – The Brewster power plant The town of Brewster was founded in 1910 to accommodate the workers at the time who spent the day working at the...
V. Guerra and Diaz Company, 1939. Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library System Later known as the V. Guerreri Cigar Factory, this three-story 27,462 square foot cigar factory located at 201...
Photo Credit: Courtesy of the Florida State Library Archives, 1920s – Cattle in the Tampa area The old cattle docks sit abandoned on the Port of Tampa Property and access can only be granted...
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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