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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/HM1I89_world-war-ii-bombing-range_Longboat-Key-FL.html
During the war years of the 1940s, the Army Air Corps had bombing targets set up near here and pilots in training from many bases in Florida took turns shooting at targets set up near the beach. Later on, they tried skip bombing techniques and unf…
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/HM1DIA_the-city-of-anna-maria-historical-park_Anna-Maria-FL.html
(side 1)The Historical Society of Anna Maria Island Museum
Built in 1920 as an ice house on 402 Pine Avenue, the building was subsequently used as city hall, the police department, a firehouse and the Turtle House before the Society renovated i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DI9_the-island-playhouse_Anna-Maria-FL.html
The Island Playhouse is one of the oldest buildings on Anna Maria Island. The simple frame vernacular building was once the home of William H. Gillett and was originally located in the Town of Parrish in Manatee County. In 1912, it was barged down…
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…
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…