A school bus carrying children from a logging community known as Rouxville to school in Punta Gorda. This photo is from ‘Our Fascinating Past – Charlotte Harbor: The Later Years’ by Lindsey Williams & U.S. Cleveland.Click here to get your[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s a view of Centre Street and 2nd Avenue in Fernandina Beach in 1907. Yep. That is a street car along Centre Street. Street cars were all over the busier areas of Florida in the first 20 years of the[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s 1911 at the Alger-Sullivan lumber camp number 8 and these folks take a break for a photo of them and their giant metal steeds. This photo is from Florida Memory
Here’s a photo of a train cutting the ribbon at the opening of the Fort Lauderdale train station in 1956. The photo is from the Florida State Photo Archives. . . . . #Trains #Railroad #Transportation #FloridaTravel #FloridaTransportation #Travel #USTRAvel[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Swampy’s #Florida Friday Train Stops: in Pensacola,1906, by way of the Shorpy Photo Archive site. An extraordinary image colorized. Click here to see the full image on the Shorpy website: http://www.shorpy.com/node/10833 If you haven’t “Like”d the Shorpy Facebook page, please[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
A successful turkey hunter in Fernandina Beach in 1949. This photo is from Literary Florida , May 1949. . . . . . . . . #Thanksgiving #Turkey #Hunt #Hunting ##FernandinaBeach Save
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
Here’s a postcard of the Presbyterian Church in Eustis. This postcard was mailed June 11th, 1924 to Mrs. M.L. Nicholson of Bradford, Pennsylvania. Apparently the person mailing, M.E.B., was living in Fruitland Park. Click here to learn more and plan[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This unmarked postcard is simply labelled in the back ‘Pompon Field – Fort Myers, Florida’. No address is provided or other identifying information. By the ladie’s dress, i would guess this photo is from the 1960s. If you know where[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
After three years of congregating in other locations, the first All Saints Church in Winter Park opened it’s doors in 1886, a year before the City of Winter Park incorporated. The photo above is of the church in 1940. By[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This was the First United Methodist Church in Ocala and was built in 1850. It was replaced in 1889. The church was built at the corner of 1st Street and Fort King Avenue. Here’s what that area looks like today.: […]↓ Read the rest of this entry…