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Early 19th Century British Admiralty Anchor. . Believed to be from the wreck of the British cartel ship "L'Athenaise" sunk Nov 1, 1804 with 179 French prisoners of war. Found off Barefoot Mailman Hotel, Hillsboro Beach in 1967 by . Dr. Donald K…
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Shippey House. Built in 1914. Residence of Judge Frederick Bleeker Shippey . . Broward County's second appointed Judge servicing from 1920 to 1933. He was most often sought out to perform marriages to notables and celebrities …
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King-Cromartie House. . In 1907, Edwin T. King, the town's first builder, a boatwright and an early citrus grower, built his third home on the south bank of the New River near what is now US 1. It remained the King family home until 1968. King's d…
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Philemon Nathaniel Bryan House. . Philemon and Lucy Bryan's home was built in 1905 by contractor Edwin T. King at the request of their two sons, Reed and Tom. Philemon and Lucy first lived in a wood-frame house that had been converted into the Bry…
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During the 1920s Florida Land Boom, the present-day Nurmi Isles subdivision was dredged to create the four finger islands. Bridges providing access to each island were constructed, but no additional development occurred until Victor Nurmi purchase…
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On this spot, January 31, 1893, Frank Stranahan, the founder of this city, conducted a ferry across New River, established a trading post with the Indians and operated the first U.S. Post Office. Seven tenths of a mile west of this point occurr…
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An excellent example of frontier Florida architecture, the Stranahan House was constructed in 1901 for Frank and Ivy Stranahan, two of this areas earliest residents. It sits on the site of Stranahan Trading Post. Initially the structure was used f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W9R_museum-building-historical_Fort-Lauderdale-FL.html
One of three remaining historical buildings on Brickell Avenue, the first commercial street in the City of Fort Lauderdale, constructed between 1924 and 1926, the building was used primarily as a furniture store (as Pace Furniture then Rhodes Furn…
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This building is one of only three remaining historical buildings on Brickell Avenue, the first commercial street of Ft. Lauderdale. Constructed as the Divans Hotel in 1922, this building is the oldest surviving structure in Ft. Lauderdale built a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1W8P_ivy-julia-cromartie-stranahan-historical_Fort-Lauderdale-FL.html
Born at White Springs, Florida, on the banks of the Suwannee River, came to Fort Lauderdale, Florida in 1899 as the town´s first school teacher. She married Frank Stranahan in 1900 and lived at the Indian Trading Post on New River, where she rema…
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