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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DKC_friendship-baptist-church_Sarasota-FL.html
Friendship Baptist Church. . The first church in Sarasota County was organized by John Hendry July 6, 1875. Charter members of the Friendship Baptist Church were E.R. and Emiline Foster, Rebecca Lowe, Mrs. L.F. Rawls, Martha Reaves, I.A. and Elea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CDH_palmer-ranch_Sarasota-FL.html
After her visit to Sarasota in 1910, Mrs. Potter (Bertha) Palmer and family began buying thousands of acres in the region. One large segment extended from their Sarasota-Venice Company's Bee Ridge development south to Laurel. The present 10,000-ac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29XW_mable-ringling-memorial-fountain-luke-wood-park_Sarasota-FL.html
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Mable Ringling Memorial Fountain
Mable Ringling, born Armilda Burton on March 4, 1875, married John Ringling on 1905 and became a Sarasota winter resident in 1911. Mable, an avid gardener, created the formal Ca'd'Zan rose garden. In the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29WS_the-booker-schools_Sarasota-FL.html
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Emma E. Booker, a pioneer Black educator was teaching in Sarasota's public school for Negro children in the 1910s. By 1918 she was principal of "Sarasota Grammar School" which held classes in rented halls. The Julius Rosenwald Fund helped …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WOV_winter-quarters-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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Just east of this marker was the Winter Quarters of the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus, a favorite winter attraction for tourists. Occupying what was previously the County Fair Grounds, the show spread over many acres with its "…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WOU_bispham-dairy-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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Jackson and Katherine Bispham started a dairy in 1922 north of Sarasota with Sarasota County Dairy Permit No. 2. Later that year Bispham moved his operation to the area of present South Tamiami Trail and Fiesta Street, named it Bayside D…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WOT_first-municpal-airport-lowe-field-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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On January 12, 1929, Sarasota dedicated its first municipal airport located on 160 acres jsut west of Oriente Avenue, now Beneva Road, and north of Fruitville Rd. Pilots performed aerial maneuvers and stunts for the crowd, many of whom f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WK0_whitfield-estates-on-sarasota-bay-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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The southern portion of Whitfield Estates was developed on land originally owned (1876-1912) by Fannie and General John Riggin Jr., an aide-de-camp of General Ulysses S. Grant during the Civil War.
In 1924 a corporation led by Louis B…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1U1P_john-d-macdonald-1916-1986-john-d-and-the-friday-liars-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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John D. MacDonald
1916-1986
During his years in Sarasota, John D. MacDonald became one of America's great writers. He published sixty-seven novels, five nonfiction works, more than five hundred short stories, and received numerous ac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TY4_sarasotas-bayfront-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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Sarasota Bay and its downtown bayfront have long been considered the brightest jewels in Sarasota's crown. In 1910 Bertha Palmer, who helped put Sarasota on the international map, proclaimed Sarasota Bay more beautiful than the Bay of Napl…