The Lenape Bar and Wynn Hotel, date unknown Genovar’s Hall was built by Sebastian Genovar in 1895 as a grocery store. It is located in the LaVilla neighborhood in Jacksonville and was...
The Lenape Bar and Wynn Hotel, date unknown Genovar’s Hall was built by Sebastian Genovar in 1895 as a grocery store. It is located in the LaVilla neighborhood in Jacksonville and was...
The fuel pod has been deemed too large to be transported through the road system Sitting out near the docks of Green Cove Springs is a full-scale model of one of the Space Shuttle’s external...
The campground of Lake Chekika Chekika was first purchased by Samuel Grossman back in 1917 where he attempted to grow tomatoes and then tried drilling for oil on the site. While drilling for oil, the...
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...
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...
Short History of Jai Alai Big Bend Jai Alai is a relic of what is now considered a rather obscure sport, was once the fastest spectator sport in the world. Jai alai started in the Basque region of...
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...
Tom Gaskins In the late 1930s, Tom Gaskins moved his family from Arcadia to Palmdale, homesteading along Fish eating Creek on land acquired from the Lykes Brothers company which dealt with citrus...
Photo Credit: Mykl Roventine, circa 1990s – Alligatorland Zoo was renamed to Jungleland Zoo in 1995, with many of the original remaining including the giant gator statue. Irlo Bronson...
A small house once part of the mini-golf course The Dania Beach Hurricane is a wooden roller coaster at Boomers! in Dania Beach, Florida. It was designed by Jules Ross and the Stand Company and was...
Dunlawton Sugar Mill In Port Orange, Florida lies the remains of a defunct amusement once called Bongoland, its history dating as far back as the early 1800s. Back in 1804, Patrick Dean arrived in...
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...
Hilario Candela stands alongside the Marine Stadium during its construction, 1963. Spillis Candela DMJM Archives Designed by architect Hilario Candela, a 28-year-old recent immigrant from Cuba, the...
The idea for Splendid China here in Florida was that of Josephine Chen, a Taiwanese-American school teacher and real estate developer. The thought was the park would be a great means for cultural...
A postcard from the 1960s, which shows how the place looks in it’s heyday. Everglades Gatorland, not to be confused with Gatorland in Orlando, was a small attraction located just within the...
Opening on June 20, 1976, River Country was the first water park built by the Walt Disney Company. Located on the shore of Bay Lake, the park featured a rustic wilderness theme that went along with...
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