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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMRJ1_pasco-county_Dade-City-FL.html
Pasco County was created from Hernando County on May 12, 1887. The are was first inhabited by Muscogee Indians and the first white men in area came with Spanish explorer Panfilo de Narvaez in May, 1528. Narvaez fought the Indians near the Withlaco…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMR3V_st-anthony-of-padua-catholic-church_San-Antonio-FL.html
In thanksgiving for a prayer answered, Judge Edmund F. Dunne began the Catholic Colony of San Antonio in 1882 and built its first church the following year at this site. Reminiscent of what he saw in Europe, the church (rather than a municipal bui…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP8C_lake-jovita_Dade-City-FL.html
On Febraury 15, 1881, Judge Edmund F. Dunne and captain Hugh Dunne, his cousin, came across this clear lake and named it for Saint Jovita whose feast day it was. Judge Dunne established San Antonio Catholic Colony on land he received for legal ser…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP8B_city-of-san-antonio-florida_San-Antonio-FL.html
Judge Edmund F. Dunne, ex-Chief Justice of Arizona, founded the Catholic Colony of San Antonio, Florida in 1881. Judge Dunne was a distinguished Catholic layman, a famous jurist, an editor, linguist, horticulturist, world traveler, and life long s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP8A_st-joseph-community_Dade-City-FL.html
[Side A:]The St. Joseph community was founded by German Catholic immigrants who migrated to Florida from Minnesota. In March 1883, Andrew Barthle visited the area and in June 1883 his older brother, Bernard A. Barthle, established the first perman…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP86_the-bradley-massacre_Dade-City-FL.html
Near this spot, on May 14, 1856, a Seminole war party attacked the home of an early settler Capt. Robert Duke Bradley of the Florida Foot Volunteers. Two of the Bradley children were killed before the Indians withdrew. This was the last such attac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP3O_st-anthony-school_San-Antonio-FL.html
Mrs. Cecelia Morse started the first school in San Antonio in 1883. The Benedectine Sisters assumed administration in 1889. This red brick schoolhouse was built in 1922 at a cost of 22,000 dollars eleven years after the adjacent church had been er…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8V5_the-tucker-cemetery_Zephyrhills-FL.html
This oldest cemetery in Pasco County has existed since before 1855. Thomas and Sarah Tucker settled in the area about 1842 and in 1845 planted the county's first orange grove. Family history records an earlier generation of Tuckers lived in the vi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8V2_elfers_Holiday-FL.html
Side 1Once an Indian hunting ground called "Alafia," this area was surveyed by Samuel Hope in the 1840's and was successively known as "Alfiers," "The Neck," "Sapling Woods," and "Elfers" — a variation of the Indian name. Fishing, timber and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6QY_site-of-world-war-ii-prisoner-of-war-camp_Dade-City-FL.html
[Marker Front]:The demands of World War II created a shortage of agricultural workers here at home. To alleviate the problem, the Prisoner of War Special Projects Division of the United States Army established some 500 camps with a total capacity …