This is the Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad that connected Tampa, Clearwater and St. Petersburg. The train was nick named the “Tug and grunt”. This photo is from 1914, which is the same year the train became part of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here;s the Trilby-San Antonio railroad depot that still stands in Pasco County. This depot serviced the “Orange Belt Route” as a Atlantic Coast Line Station. This is an undated postcard, but would guess this is from the mid-1960s.
This was a standard scene all over Florida prior to 1948 when new Governor Fuller Warren went about getting fences up to corral the cattle. This scene is along what would become Kennedy Boulevard in Tampa. This photo is from[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Travelers and their dog make their way from St. Louis to Lake Worth in 1912. From ‘Lake Worth – Jewel of the Gold Coast’.You can purchase a copy by clicking here or below. https://amzn.to/35oHpoy
Anyone taking a bus this morning? This is a photo of the bus taking folks to the Qui-Si-Sana Hotel in Green Cove Springs in the early 1900s. The photo is from ‘Parade of Memories – A History of Clay County,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…