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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TY3_city-of-sarasota-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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On a bright spring morning in 1885, a surveying team from the Florida Mortgage and Investment Company cleared a ten foot area in what is today the center of Five Points. The group was led by Richard Paulson who announced: "We will lay out …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TWB_old-miakka-school-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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The Miakka School House was built in 1914 by J.B. Rogers for $1,390. It was the first school in Manatee County to be built using school bonds authorized by the Legislature of 1913. This area was part of Manatee County until 1921.
The tw…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TWA_the-twin-motel-and-tourism-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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Tourism has long been important to Sarasota's history and economy. Winter visitors began coming to the area in the 1880s with some staying in Sarasota's first hotel, The DeSoto Hotel, which was completed in 1887. Tourism increased in the 1…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW9_bidwell-wood-house-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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In 1882 this "handsome residence" was under construction for Alfred and Mary Bidwell on land Mary purchased from the State of Florida for one dollar an acre. Before construction the Bidwell's apparently occupied the detached kitchen-dining…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW8_mary-wyatt-whitaker-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
Two hundred feet east of this highway is the tomb of
Mary Wyatt Whitaker
Born at Tallahassee, Florida, April 11, 1831; daughter of William Wyatt, member of the convention which gave to the state of Florida its first constitution; mother of the f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW7_whitaker-family-gateway-2000-executive-committee-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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Whitaker Family
William Henry Whitaker arrived in Sarasota Bay in the early 1840s. He built a cedar log cabin at "Yellow Bluffs," part of nearly 200 acres he would acquire along the bay between Hog Creek and today's Indian Beach…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW6_landing-of-the-scots-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
On December 23, 1885 a number of Scottish families came ashore on or near this spot to settle land they had purchased for their homes in a new country. They met wilderness and hardship instead of the established town promised them; causing many to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW4_cedar-point-sunset-park-cedar-point-golden-gate-point-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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Cedar Point/Sunset Park
Cedar Point, a hook of land on Sarasota Bay, was platted in 1899 and recorded as an addition to the Town of Sarasota in 1900. Split into north and south sections by North Gulf Stream Avenue, Cedar Point was home to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW3_the-circle-at-st-armands-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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Decades after conception, St Armands Circle has fulfilled John Ringling's dream of a premier shopping district. Conceived during Florida's real estate boom, St Armands was part of the John Ringling Estates Development and the jewel of Ring…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW2_methodist-church-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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The village of Sarasota's earliest church was chartered in 1891 as the Sarasota Methodist Episcopal Church, South. Manatee Village circuit rider Rev. E. F. Gates brought recently ordained Rev. William B. Tresca to be founding minister. 'Wi…