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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WJ8_adams-and-rogers-cemeteries-historical_Bradenton-FL.html
Adams Cemetery, once known as the Fogartyville Colored Cemetery, began in 1896 when William H. and Eliza Atzeroth Forgarty donated four acres of land to the community for use as a public cemetery. The cemetery's earliest marker is the final restin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WJ7_9th-avenue-west-bridge-historical_Bradenton-FL.html
At this location over Wares Creek once stood one of the oldest concrete arch deck bridges in the State of Florida. Designed by noted local civil engineer Freeman H. Horton, the former 9th Avenue West bridge was constructed during World War II by t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WJ6_old-memphis-cemetery-historical_Bradenton-FL.html
Palmetto's historic Memphis neighborhood was originally plotted in 1904 by Robert F. Willis who sold lots to "a number of very desirable people" who built homes in what he named the "Town of Memphis" after his hometown in Tenne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WDP_desoto-trail-historical_Bradenton-FL.html
Near here Hernando DeSoto with his men landed May 30, 1539 and began his march westward to the Mississippi River. This marker commemorates the 400th anniversary of his arrival on the shores of Florida.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JOJ_first-presbyterian-church-of-bradenton_Bradenton-FL.html
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The First Presbyterian Church of Bradenton is the oldest congregation in the bounds of the original Village of Bradenton and the oldest south of Tampa. In 1885, land was deeded to five trustees for the planned Braidentown Presbyterian Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JNN_the-carnegie-library_Bradenton-FL.html
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This Carnegie Library was built in 1918 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation. It is one of the 1,946 Carnegie Libraries built in the United States under the direction of Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant who rose from millhand to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DUR_manatee-academy_Bradenton-FL.html
side 1The first advanced school erected in Manatee County was built about 200 feet east of this site on land deeded 15 August 1876 expressly for education and cultural purposes by Edmund Lee and his third wife, Elizabeth, to Trustees of the Joint …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DHR_bradenton-depot_Bradenton-FL.html
The Atlantic Coastline Railroad Company Passenger and Freight Depot Bradentown Florida, built c. 1925, became the Bradenton Depot when Bradentown dropped the w from its name. The historical significance on local and state levels was tremendous as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DHQ_palma-sola_Bradenton-FL.html
Marker Front:In 1868, firearms manufacturer James Warner moved his family from Springfield, Massachusetts, to Manatee County, where he hoped to regain his health. He built a home on the shore of the Manatee River about half a mile east of this mar…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DHP_first-settlers-homesite_Bradenton-FL.html
Marker Front:Located a few yards from this spot near the banks of the Manatee River is the site of the log home of Josiah Gates. Gates was the first Anglo-American settler in the entire Manatee area which at that time extended southward to the Cal…