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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/HM27Q8_the-mansion-at-tuckahoe_Jensen-Beach-FL.html
Mt. Elizabeth and the surrounding property were purchased by explorer William Henry Racey in the late 1850's. In 1891, his son, Charles Racey, built a three-story wood-frame house on the mound for his family and started a pineapple and citrus plan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25Y6_hurricane-of-1928-mass-burial-site_Canal-Point-FL.html
On September 16, 1928, a hurricane came ashore near the Jupiter Lighthouse and traveled west across Palm Beach County to Lake Okeechobee. This deadly hurricane destroyed hundreds of buildings and left millions of dollars of property damage. Many o…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24B0_tuckahoe_Jensen-Beach-FL.html
The mansion at
Tuckahoe
1938
Restored 2009
Listed on the National Register
of Historic Places by the United States
Department of the Interior
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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24AW_georges-valentine_Stuart-FL.html
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/HM24AV_all-saints-cemetery_Jensen-Beach-FL.html
In 1893, a community of Episcopal worshippers began to emerge in this area. With the property donated by Charles H. and Mary Racey, the congregation established the All Saints' Episcopal Church and All Saints' Cemetery in 1898.
The All Saints' …
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…