Swampy visited Polk County’s newest park last weekend, Marshall Hampton Reserve along Lake Hancock near Lakeland and the Circle B Bar Reserve. Riding the newly built trails Bob and Lee Julius encounter the elusive Swampy. Bob’s very happy to have[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy found the main entrance to the Upper Hillsborough tract just east of Zephyrhills in Pasco County on County Road 54. Click here to learn more of all you can do on this tract of the Southwest Florida Management District.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
There’s no date on the brochure, but I would guess this is from around 1960.
Here’s a postcard to go along with the Swampy comic strip yesterday. This is what just north of the Sanford Riverwalk area once looked in this 1905 postmarked card. Yes, that’s the bridge in the back that would take you[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Rob Smith, Jr. is adding the above just finished painting to the available print collection for Swampy’s Florida. Look for a tab above soon to get your print of ‘Critter Camp Out’.
Postmarked 1913 this postcard from somewhere near Lee County ended up in Brawley, California. The note on back is a sister not happy that she’s going to have to stay where they are in Florida for “a few more years’.[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A bit o’ green for St. Patrick’s Day! Here’s a shot at the Loxahatchee Preserve. If ya want green, here’s a perfect place to find it in Palm Beach County!
Here’s a little film of a very short tour of a small part of the Marjorie Harris Carr Cross Florida Greenway. Click here to learn more and plan a trip to see it yourself.
Here’s a card of the Upper Tomoka River in Volusia County. There’s no date on the back, but I would suspect the 1920s. Notice the canoe and the occupants on the middle left side.
Here’s a postcard of the Florida pool built by Dick Pope at his Cypress Gardens to entice films to be produced at the Winter Have site. He specifically was looking to lasso swimming champ and film star, Esther Williams, to[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s a few sides of a Citrus County Brochure. Not sure what year it’s from.
A long overdue designation! A great opportunity for Floridians to know their history and enjoy the great outdoors at the same time! ————————————————————- From The Palm Beach Post JUPITER — The skirmish over renaming the town’s battlefield park is almost[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…