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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DHO_first-manatee-courthouse-manatee-methodist-church_Bradenton-FL.html
Marker Front:Manatee County was created by legislative action signed January 9, 1855, from Hillsborough, St. Lucie, and Monroe Counties. Five years later, in 1860, Josiah Gates and Mary, his wife, deeded to Manatee County a parcel of land located …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DHN_manatee-burying-ground_Bradenton-FL.html
Marker Front:This is one of the oldest organized burying grounds on the Gulf Coast of Florida. The property was deeded on May 30, 1850, and since 1892 only immediate members of families already interred here can be buried in the cemetery. The prop…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DHM_major-adams-cemetery_Bradenton-FL.html
This plot was donated by Major Alden Joseph Adams to the village of Manatee in 1892 "to be used as a burying ground forever." It was first called New Cemetery. Members of pioneer families, including Major Adams, are interred here. The property is …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DHL_manatee-mineral-spring_Bradenton-FL.html
Here flowed a spring which had been used by Indians and was found by Manatee's first white settler, Josiah Gates, who settled nearby in January 1842. It served Branch Fort, when the early settlers camped nearby for protection from the Seminole rai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DHE_lincoln-high-school_Bradenton-FL.html
The Manatee County Board of Public Instruction purchased property from Mr. Alden J. Adams on July 25, 1914, and from Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Singletary on May 17, 1922, "for the purposes of a school for Negro children." The old Manatee County Courthous…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSXF_the-bunker-hill-school_Bradenton-FL.html
Throughout America, the one-room schoolhouse was a fixture and the educational mainstay for many years.
This one-room schoolhouse was built in 1908 to serve the community of Bunker Hill, which is located in the northeast corner of Manatee Count…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSXE_the-wiggins-store_Bradenton-FL.html
Restored on the original building site, the Wiggins Store was built by King Wiggins in 1903. The fact that it was one of the areas first brick buildings is significant because, prior to the arrival of the railroad, brick could only be brought in b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSXD_the-stephens-house_Bradenton-FL.html
A prime example of the "Cracker Gothic" style, this home was built in 1912 by the Will Stephens family. It is an excellent representation of a Florida rural frame house during the period between the 1870's and World War I. This third home on the S…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSXB_the-fogarty-boat-works_Bradenton-FL.html
In 1866, three brothers, John, Bartholomew, and Bill Fogarty, settled in Manatee County and established a ship building and coastal trading schooner base on the shore of the Manatee River. In the years before automobiles and railroads, Manatee Cou…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSX9_the-1887-church_Bradenton-FL.html
Construction of this historic church was started in 1887. Completion was delayed until 1889 due to a yellow fever epidemic which claimed the lives of the pastor and many members of the congregation. Used to house the first Christian congregation s…