A shot from the Lake Mary water tank of the ACLRR train depot. Photo from ‘Lake Mary’s Beginnings & the Roaring Twenties in Lake Mary & Sanford, Florida ‘ by Margaret Green. The book is out of print, but may[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
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This is the St. Clair country school near what what would become Umatilla. St. Clair is a community in east Lake County. This photo is from ‘Through Schoolhouse Doors’.You can purchase a copy by clicking here:https://amzn.to/2MavvsM This book is part[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This photo is from Tampa Bay History magazine. I hope that goat has a driver’s license! All this certainly cheaper than those car-things we drive today! This magazine is part of the Swampy’s Florida library……….#Train #Railroad #FlordiaTrain #Floridarailroad #Floridalife #FloridaLifestyle #Transportation[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Knowing the area over the decades, this unmarked postcard appears to be of the southeast corner of Lake Eola. Maybe along Central Boulevard. It appears to be from around 1910. If you look close you can see two trails to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
$2,500 built Lakeland’s first train station in 1884 by Abraham Munn. Munn also funded the tracks and more railroad line east and west of Lakeland. . . . . . . . . . #Florida #train #FloridaTrain #RR #Transportation #Travel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This postcard is part of a larger pack of postcards of Orlando. The postmark is a bit tough to read involving what year in the 1920s. This postcard is part of the Swampy’s Florida colleciton……#Flordia #Orlando #OrlandoFlorida #Postcard #FloridaPostcard #Cherokee[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Postcard: Lake Okeechobee, 1953.
This postcard was mailed in February 1916 from Pahokee to Mrs. W.D. Wolster in Columbus, Ohio. It’s hard to read the message of the sender, R.S.H. Has something to do with 143 miles, cattle country and a jet plane. This[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This Lake Worth train station stood for years in Downtown Lake Worth before being demolished. This photo is from ‘Lake Worth: Jewel of the Gold Coast’ by Jonathan Koontz https://amzn.to/3kiPdyV
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
Swampy’s #Florida #Sunday Services: Union Congregational Church, #Tavares.
This is the Union Congregational Church in Tavares. It was built in 1888 after the congregation was organized in 1885. The land for the church was donated by the founder of Tavares, Major Alexander Abrams. Click here for the website[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A stop along Lake Down in Windermere finds cartoonist Charles Treadwell and what he likes most about Florida: Rollins College in Winter Park. Rollins College is a beautiful private college and can be toured, but do call first. The[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The Google folks did this, not I. Somehow it took a set of photos I took this past Saturday along Lake Mary Jane at Moss Park, south of Orlando, and strung them together to create this bit of animation. Pretty[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…