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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28PS_richloam-general-store-and-post-office_Webster-FL.html
In 1921, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad (ACL) decided to relocate its depot in Riverland to Richloam. Soon after, in 1922, Postmaster Lucius Sidney "Sid" Brinson moved the Riverland Post Office to the growing community of Richloam and opene…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23C6_bayport-in-the-civil-war-the-battle-of-bayport_Spring-Hill-FL.html
(side 1) Bayport in the Civil War Bayport was a shallow-water gulf port town in the 1850s. The town was designated the Hernando County Seat and a port of delivery by Congress in 1854. Before the Civil War, the port shipped lumber cut from locall…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23BG_town-of-centralia_Brooksville-FL.html
Side 1: This site was once the location of one of Florida's largest lumber mills. As demand for insect and rot resistant cypress increased, the J.C. Turner Lumber Company began the logging of over 15,000 acres of Red Tidewater Cypress, cedar and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RC2_spring-lake-community-center_Brooksville-FL.html
This building was constructed by the Works Progress Administration (W.P.A.) in 1938. It was originally proposed to be a building that could be used as a polling place on election days and as a community recreation hall. The School Board saw the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RA3_the-bayport-area-before-human-occupation-bayports-first-people_Spring-Hill-FL.html
(side 1) The Bayport Area Before Human Occupation The fossilized remains of many prehistoric animals and plants are buried in the Bayport area. During the Eocene Period, 45 million years ago (MYA), the Gulf covered this region. Local Ocala lim…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1RA0_bayports-early-historic-period-post-civil-war-era_Spring-Hill-FL.html
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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1R9V_chocochatti_Brooksville-FL.html
The first colony of Muskogee-speaking Upper Creek Indians from Alabama was established nearby in 1767. British surveyor/naturalist Bernard Romans identified the settlement as "New Yufala, planted in a beautiful and fertile plain." It later became …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19OD_bayport_Spring-Hill-FL.html
The interior of Central Florida opened for settlement by whites in the mid-1840s following the end of the Second Seminole War. In the absence of roads and railroads, coastal and inland waterways provided the transportation routes essential to farm…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19LS_chinsegut-hill_Brooksville-FL.html
In 1842, South Carolinian Bird M. Pearson staked a claim on 160 acres and called it Mount Airy, one of the few surviving plantations in Florida and one of the oldest houses in Hernando County. Pearson built the manor house's east wing in 1847 and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTJP_st-anthony-the-abbot-church_Brooksville-FL.html
Though mass was first celebrated for Brooksville Catholics at the Hope residence on Easter Sunday 1874 by Bishop Augustin Verot, a formal Catholic mission was not established until 1892. At that time Fr. Roman Kirchner, the Benedictine Pastor of S…
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