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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMHY_middleton-senior-high-school_Tampa-FL.html
In 1934 Middleton Senior High School, named for George S. Middleton, opened on 24th and Chelsea Streets in East Tampa as the first high school for African Americans in Hillsborough County. Previously, Booker T. Washington School had accommodated b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMHG_union-raiders-burn-tampa-blockade-runners_Tampa-FL.html
On October 18, 1863, a union task force of 85 soldiers found the "Scottish Chief" and "Kate Dale", celebrated blockade runners, hidden in a remote anchorage in the Hillsborough River, near this site and set the ships afire. Owner-Skipper James McK…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM2G_the-krewe-of-the-knights-of-sant-yago_Tampa-FL.html
In 1175, Pope Alexander III, authorized "La Orden Real Sant' Yago" to protect the Pilgrims' Way to the shrine of Santiago (St. James), at Santiago de Compostela, Galicia, Spain. Among the Spanish conquerors of America, Ponce De Leon, Panfile De Na…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM2D_anthony-p-pizzo_Tampa-FL.html
Civic leader and historian, Tony Pizzo, was born in the family home at this location on September 22, 1912. Tony's pride in his community inspired him to research and document history that would have been lost without his efforts. His enthusiasm e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM0L_memoria-in-aeterna-1911_Tampa-FL.html
(Front text)In 1910, the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Tampa Chapter No.113, began to raise funds for a monument to honor the soldiers and sailors of the Confederate States of America, The Hillsborough County Commission granted the chapter,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMM0I_operation-iraqi-freedom-memorial-ii_Tampa-FL.html
(Raised section)A grateful countyhonors the memory of these brave individualsfor their unquestioned valor and sacrificein defense of freedom and libertyduring combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Dedicated 2003Hillsborough County Board of County C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLZY_operation-iraqi-freedom-memorial-i_Tampa-FL.html
(Raised section)A grateful countyhonors the memory of these brave individualsfor their unquestioned valor and sacrificein defense of freedom and libertyduring combat in Operation Iraqi Freedom
Dedicated 2003Hillsborough County Board of County C…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLXQ_hillsborough-lodge_Tampa-FL.html
InstitutedJanuary 24, 1850
The First Masonic Lodge in Tampa
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLX2_greater-new-salem-primitive-baptist-church_Tampa-FL.html
??New Salem Primitive Baptist Church came into existence from its "mother church," Mt. Moriah Primitive Baptist Church in Tampa. Rev. G.S. Crawford, from east Florida, organized New Salem in 1905, which first held services in a one-room building o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLX1_the-buffalo-soldiers-in-tampa-heights_Tampa-FL.html
??African-Americans have served valiantly in all of America's wars. Although black soldiers fought and died in previous conflicts, they were not permitted to enlist as army regulars until after the Civil War. Organized into separate infantry and c…