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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E4O_riomar-clubhouse-saint-edwards-school_Vero-Beach-FL.html
Riomar Clubhouse Saint Edward's School. . During the early 1920's, three Cleveland, Ohio physicians established Riomar as a private winter resort for themselves and their families. The facilities included a clubhouse and guest cottage on what is n…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2D1R_gifford-high-school-sundial-landmark_Vero-Beach-FL.html
Gifford High School Sundial Landmark. . In 1892, William Edward Geoffrey, an African American man from Darlington, South Carolina, came to work on the Florida East Coast Railroad in Gifford. The town's first school was built in 1898, but only serv…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24B4_vero-beach-railway-station_Vero-Beach-FL.html
In 1893, Henry Flagler's railroad arrived in Sebastian, and reached Ft. Pierce in 1894, bypassing the tiny community of Vero. Flagler renamed his railroad the Florida East Coast Railway (FEC) in 1895. Because of agricultural growth in the area, Fl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24B3_bethel-creek-house-of-refuge_Vero-Beach-FL.html
The 1st house of refuge on Florida's east coast was constructed on this site which later became part of the U.S. Lifesaving Service. Houses of Refuge were built about 20 miles apart and provided a safe haven for those shipwrecked along the desolat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1VYZ_vero-beach-city-hall-historical_Vero-Beach-FL.html
Vero's first town hall building was located at the southeast corner of the original 1913 town plat, west of the Florida East Coast Railway tracks along Osceola Boulevard, later State Road 60. Designed by John Sherwood in the Spanish Mission Reviva…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1SI7_veterans-memorial-island-sanctuary_Vero-Beach-FL.html
River travel was vital to the early human activity of Florida and the Indian River area. In the early 1900's, efforts began to dredge the Indian River. By the 1930's, the U.S. Corps of Engineers routinely maintained this channel called the Intraco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R5G_osceola-park-historic-residential-district_Vero-Beach-FL.html
Osceola Park was one of the first residential subdivisions added to the town of Vero Beach and contains the city's largest concentration of early 20th century buildings. In 1915 and 1917, the Indian River Farms Company, who had platted the origina…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R5E_baseball-and-dodgertown_Vero-Beach-FL.html
Dodgertown was the spring training facility of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers. Originally part of a World War II Naval Air Station, Dodgertown became the spring training home of the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1948, when local business leader Bud Holman…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QQI_mckee-jungle-gardens_Vero-Beach-FL.html
This is the original site of McKee Jungle Gardens, one of Florida's earliest tourist attractions. McKee Gardens was founded in 1932 by Vero Beach pioneer Waldo Sexton and Cleveland industrialist Arthur G. McKee. They engaged William Lyman Phillips…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1QQH_mckee-jungle-garden-gates_Vero-Beach-FL.html
These gates, once the property of Henry Flagler, adorned McKee Jungle Garden's main entrance from 1932 until 1967. Thereafter, they graced the residence of one of Arthur McKee's daughters, Mary-Katherine Semon until the time of her husband's death…
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