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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/HM1DHK_the-anna-maria-pier_Anna-Maria-FL.html
Built in 1911, the Anna Maria City Pier welcomed visitors and residents to the island city arriving by steamship. The 776-foot-long pier accommodated paddle wheelers such as the Favorite and the Mistletoe prior to the construction of the first bri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DHJ_passage-key_Anna-Maria-FL.html
Marker Front:Less than a mile to the north lies Passage Key, marking the southerly entrance into Tampa Bay. Since Ponce de Leon explored this coast in 1513, this island has served to guide ships into the great bay beyond, called by early Spanish e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1DHI_beans-point-early-legend_Anna-Maria-FL.html
Marker Front:In May 1894, Anna Maria Island's first modern-day pioneer — George Emerson Bean — took up a homestead, signed by President Wm. McKinley, that embraced the island's entire north point. Other daring settlers, such as Samuel …
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/HM19O4_gillette-community_Palmetto-FL.html
This area, known originally as Frog Creek, received its first American settlers before the Civil War. Many of them came from Alabama, northern Florida, and Georgia. Among the Georgians was Daniel Gillett, who brought his family to Frog Creek in th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19O3_gamble-sugar-cane-mill_Palmetto-FL.html
In 1842, as the Second Seminole War drew to a conclusion, Major Robert Gamble, Jr. established a sugar cane plantation along the banks of the Manatee River, as did others including Hector and Joseph Braden, William Craig and William Wyatt. By 1850…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM19O2_site-of-atwood-grove-and-origin-of-worlds-1st-pink-grapefruit_Palmetto-FL.html
Site of Atwood Grove and Origin of World's 1st Pink Grapefruit Across U.S. 301 stood the Kimball C. Atwood Grapefruit Grove and Manavista, a town that he founded in 1892 and encircled with 100 (mile-long) rows of trees. Here in 1913 grove supervis…
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…