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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DM6_little-salt-spring_North-Port-FL.html
Little Salt Spring. . The waters of this unusual archeological and paleontological site have yielded preserved human skeletal remains and artifacts dating from 10,000 to 3000 B.C. Animal fossils have also been recovered. Including species of extin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DM5_prehistoric-man-lived-here-spring-was-once-a-cave_North-Port-FL.html
Prehistoric Man Lived Here/Spring Was Once a Cave. . Prehistoric Man Lived Here . More than 10,000 years ago prehistoric man, sabre-tooth cats, giant sloths, mammoths and mastodons lived in this area of Florida which eons later became a part of S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DKC_friendship-baptist-church_Sarasota-FL.html
Friendship Baptist Church. . The first church in Sarasota County was organized by John Hendry July 6, 1875. Charter members of the Friendship Baptist Church were E.R. and Emiline Foster, Rebecca Lowe, Mrs. L.F. Rawls, Martha Reaves, I.A. and Elea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CDH_palmer-ranch_Sarasota-FL.html
After her visit to Sarasota in 1910, Mrs. Potter (Bertha) Palmer and family began buying thousands of acres in the region. One large segment extended from their Sarasota-Venice Company's Bee Ridge development south to Laurel. The present 10,000-ac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CCK_laurel-turpentine-company-blackburn-sawmill-quarters_Nokomis-FL.html
Laurel Turpentine Company
As the turpentine industry spread through southwest Florida, landowners leased turpentine rights to contractors who hired operators for camps that would harvest gum from thousands of acres of pine woods. The Laurel Turpe…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CCH_turpentine-venice-ice-house_Nokomis-FL.html
Turpentine
Early in the 20th Century, turpentine camps were established in Nokomis and Venice. Typically black laborers cut a V-shaped "cat face" in the bark of pine trees, from which gum oozed into a clay or tin pot nailed to the tree.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CC8_south-creek-trestle-oscar-scherer-history_Osprey-FL.html
South Creek Trestle
In early 1900 Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) controlled 2,600 miles of track stretching from Virginia to Florida. In 1911 SAL constructed a 16.5-mile extension from Sarasota (Fruitville Junction) to Venice. The bridge over …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CC1_johnson-chapel-albee-quarters_Nokomis-FL.html
The original Johnson Chapel building, located on Church Street in Laurel, was moved in 1947 from the Missionary Baptist Church in Osprey to become the sanctuary for the Johnson Chapel Missionary Baptist Church in Laurel. Naming the church for thei…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29XW_mable-ringling-memorial-fountain-luke-wood-park_Sarasota-FL.html
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Mable Ringling Memorial Fountain
Mable Ringling, born Armilda Burton on March 4, 1875, married John Ringling on 1905 and became a Sarasota winter resident in 1911. Mable, an avid gardener, created the formal Ca'd'Zan rose garden. In the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29WS_the-booker-schools_Sarasota-FL.html
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Emma E. Booker, a pioneer Black educator was teaching in Sarasota's public school for Negro children in the 1910s. By 1918 she was principal of "Sarasota Grammar School" which held classes in rented halls. The Julius Rosenwald Fund helped …