It’s a Women’s Society luncheon at the College Heights United Methodist Church in Lakeland in the 1950s. This photo is from the book ‘On the Wings of Faith A History of College Heights United Methodist Church, Lakeland Florida – 1912-1987‘[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here are the railroad tracks and railroad park in Winter Haven in 1912. The depot is just off the photo. To the upper left is the ‘Pastime Pool Room’. This photo is from ‘Yesterday’s Polk County’ by Louise Frisbie.You can[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the “Henry M. Flagler”, the Florida East Coast Railroad’s first diesel engine. Between December 3rd, 1939 to December 18th, 1940, the engine pulled a train of cars between Jacksonville to Miami. After, the engine rode the same route but,[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This ad from 1978 displays a form of Publix now gone. ‘The Deli’ was broken out of the butcher’s area. ‘The Danish Bakery’ was a separate building attached to many Publix Markets. This Publix ad is from a 1978 program[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is from the cover of the 2004 ‘The Story of the Milton Depot’. It’s a 1994 photo of the depot after restoration. This photo is from ‘The Story of the Milton Depot’ book. You can purchase a copy by[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This unmailed postcard shows The Fontainebleu on the left and the Eden Roc on the right. The hotels had quite a rivalry back in the ’50s and still battle it out for customers today. Both hotels were designed by Morris[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This is the Manatee Crate Company’s No. 7 engine. It ran on the East and West Coast Railway that once existed in DeSoto, Manatee and Sarasota Counties. The tracks were proposed for abandonment in 1932, but weren’t entirely abandoned until[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
The First Assembly of God began in Bagdad, very near Milton in the Panhandle, by a group calling itself the “Sanctified People” in the 1920s. The church moved a bit to another site in 1927 in a new building. In[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
It’s 1940 and members of the Mt. Pleasant AME Church in Lakeland pose for this photograph. There appears to have once been a website for the church, but it no longer is working. This photo is from ‘In the Midst[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This unmarked card appears to be from the 1950s. The parish itself was established in 1921. Though this church appears to be newer than that. The history of the church is not mentioned on the church’s website, so I don’t[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Folks on and off the train at the Union Station depot in Ellenton, in Manatee County, in the 1890s. Since the long awaited arrival of trains in the last quarter of the 1800s, the area south of Tampa and south[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Here’s the grandest of the various Orange County Courthouses that have stood in Orlando as the county seat of Orange County. This one was built in 1892. A new one went up in 1927 when the “Boom” was on and[…]↓ Read the rest of this entry…