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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2E40_the-edmund-lee-family-pioneer-cemetery_Bradenton-FL.html
The Edmund Lee Family Pioneer Cemetery purchased land from Josiah Gates in 1846 here lies: . Mary Guerrero, adopted infant daughter of Miguel and Frederica Guerrero 1868 . Rev. James McCarter 1813-1857 . Electa Arcotte Lee, first wife 1808-1870…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24MC_edmund-lee-family-graveyard-and-the-lonesome-grave-william-r-whitaker-house_Bradenton-FL.html
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Edmund Lee Family Graveyard and the Lonesome Grave
According to local history, members of the Lee family are buried here. Rev. Edmund Lee, a Presbyterian Minister, his wife Electa, and their daughter Sarah, came to the Village of Mana…
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/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…
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/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…