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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM23D2_bradenton-general-hospital_Bradenton-FL.html
On this site from January 1, 1921-May 31, 1957 stood the Bradenton General Hospital owned and operated by Dr. C.W. Larrabee and wife, Dovie Collins Larrabee for the use of all doctors and benefit and care of all people in this area.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XN7_camp-weatherford-historical_Bradenton-FL.html
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With baseball suspended for the duration of WWII, present-day McKechnie Field was closed between 1941-48 and taken over by the U.S. Army and named Camp Bradenton. Under command of Maj. Joseph H. Dunlap, it was designated a Signal Corps b…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WKO_florida-highway-patrol-school-historical_Bradenton-FL.html
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In 1939, the Legislature created the Department of Public Safety and Florida Highway Patrol. Governor Fred P. Cone appointed W.F. Reid director in September. On October 1, Major H. Neil Kirkman was appointed Commandant of the Highway Pat…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WKN_bealls-centennial-historical_Bradenton-FL.html
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In April of 1915, twenty-two year old Robert M. Beall opened a simple dry goods store on this block of Old Main Street. Pricing nothing over a dollar, he named it the Dollar Limit. Beall invested his money in merchandise so when the good…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WKM_courthouse-square-historical_Bradenton-FL.html
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In 1892, John Crews Pelot deeded this 200 x 400 square foot parcel of land to Manatee County for the sum of $200.00. The land was cleared at a cost of $62.50, and a new courthouse, the first in "Braidentown" and the county's third county…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WJ9_former-town-of-fogartyville-former-town-of-wilhelmsenburg-historical_Bradenton-FL.html
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Former Town of Fogartyville
This marker stands on the eastern boundary of Fogartyville, a town founded on land acquired under the Homestead Act after the War Between the States by Fogarty bros., Capt. Bartholomew (Tole), John and Will…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WJ7_9th-avenue-west-bridge-historical_Bradenton-FL.html
At this location over Wares Creek once stood one of the oldest concrete arch deck bridges in the State of Florida. Designed by noted local civil engineer Freeman H. Horton, the former 9th Avenue West bridge was constructed during World War II by t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WJ6_old-memphis-cemetery-historical_Bradenton-FL.html
Palmetto's historic Memphis neighborhood was originally plotted in 1904 by Robert F. Willis who sold lots to "a number of very desirable people" who built homes in what he named the "Town of Memphis" after his hometown in Tenne…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JOJ_first-presbyterian-church-of-bradenton_Bradenton-FL.html
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The First Presbyterian Church of Bradenton is the oldest congregation in the bounds of the original Village of Bradenton and the oldest south of Tampa. In 1885, land was deeded to five trustees for the planned Braidentown Presbyterian Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1JNN_the-carnegie-library_Bradenton-FL.html
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This Carnegie Library was built in 1918 with funds from the Carnegie Corporation. It is one of the 1,946 Carnegie Libraries built in the United States under the direction of Andrew Carnegie, a Scottish immigrant who rose from millhand to…