Oriole Cemetery is the third oldest cemetery in Hernando County and was once part of the town of Oriole, a small mining settlement located in what is now the Withlacoochee State Forest. The town was...
Oriole Cemetery is the third oldest cemetery in Hernando County and was once part of the town of Oriole, a small mining settlement located in what is now the Withlacoochee State Forest. The town was...
Marble Bank The Laura Street Trio is a group of three historic buildings located at the corner of Forsyth and Laura Streets in downtown Jacksonville. The Trio consists of two skyscrapers, the Florida...
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...
Mortal Kombat and Ms. Pac-Man cabinets, some of the popular arcade games of the time The first arcade games were the old midway of the 1920s which included shooting galleries, ball-toss games, and...
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...
Jane Sheldon’s children and hotel guests were just sitting for a midday meal at her “House on the Hill”, the largest hotel south of St. Augustine built upon a coquina foundation of a former...
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...
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 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...
Inside the lounge area of the General Myer communications train car as it looked in 1961. Named after the failed project it was involved in, the Dorothy Walker Bush Great Floridian 2000 was a...
The Arctic Discoverer According to arcticdiscoverer.com, the R/V Arctic Discoverer began her career in 1958 as the A.T. Cameron, a Canadian Fishing Research Vessel and Icebreaker. Over the years, her...
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...
Grumman designed the aircraft to be used for anti-submarine warfare(ASW), with a large high-wing monoplane with twin Wright Cyclone radial engines with the idea to combine the roles the Avenger and...
Riverside Motel & St. Mary’s Liquors The Riverside Motel and St. Mary’s Liquors were located near the Florida/Georgia border but to start, a bit of context before we delve into the...
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...
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