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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CZS_the-sewall-home-dock-and-pineapple-fields_Stuart-FL.html
The Sewall Home, Dock and Pineapple Fields. Henry Edwin Sewall (1848-1925). In 1889, Capt. Henry Seawall and his wife, Abbie, settled on the peninsula that bears their name. Previously, the Sewall family inherited a third of the 16,000-acre Miles-…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24AZ_the-bakers-of-waveland_Stuart-FL.html
Dr. William H. Baker and his family settled here in 1880 and named the place Waveland. Their home was the first permanent residence in what is Martin County today, and Waveland was prominent on Florida maps for many years. The section line that se…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24AY_sewalls-point_Sewalls-Point-FL.html
Sewall's Point, with high fertile hammocks situated between the St. Lucie and Indian rivers, attracted this area's earliest settlers. These pioneers cleared the land, planted pineapples, and citrus, and traveled to Titusville by sailboat for suppl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24AX_gilberts-bar-house-of-refuge_Stuart-FL.html
Only one remaining of nine on Florida east coast commissioned in 1875 for the U.S. Life-Saving Service. Keepers provided shelter, food, clothing, and transportation to survivors of shipwrecks and storms at sea. In U.S. Coast Guard Service through …
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The iron-hulled Italian bark Georges Valentine was built in 1869 at Liverpool, England. She was wrecked here in a storm on October 16, 1904, while bound from Pensacola to Buenos Aires with a load of lumber. Five members of her twelve-man crew drow…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM20IN_gilberts-bar-prehistoric-site_Stuart-FL.html
Europeans arriving at Hutchinson Island in the 16th century found the island populated by hundreds of Native Americans living in settlements bordering both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian River.
The rich marine environment provided these Nati…