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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2DZX_fort-king-road_Dade-City-FL.html
Fort King Road. . Construction on Fort King Road, first known as the Military Road, was begun in 1825 north from Fort Brooke at Tampa Bay. By the 1830's penetration had been made to Fort King near present-day Ocala, and the road assumed strategic …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A3W_trilby-methodist-church_Dade-City-FL.html
Organized by the Rev. T.H. Sistrunk in 1897 and built by the 12 charter members a year later, this original frame church and steeple of pioneer design has long been a center of community activities. Moved from near the railroad coalchute to the pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A3U_blanton-methodist-church_Dade-City-FL.html
This church was built in 1906 by Will Heacock and Tom Jordan on land donated by Mr. and Mrs. Henry P. Blocker. The pioneer congregation which worshipped at Mt. Olive Church on the Dowling Place about a mile away had decided it was too far from "to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A3N_trilby-cemetery_Dade-City-FL.html
Serving the community of Trilby—previously known as McLeod Settlement then Macon—the first burials in this cemetery were probably made not long after the McLeod family settled east of here in the 1870s. The earliest marked graves are i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A3L_jones-nursing-home_Dade-City-FL.html
Otis E. and Naomi Scott Jones moved to Dade City in the late 1930s and soon became prominent members of the community and St. Paul Missionary Baptist Church, where they served as deacon and deaconess. Nearby Naomi Jones Pyracantha Park, which Mrs.…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A2U_mount-zion-african-methodist-episcopal-church_Dade-City-FL.html
Organized in the late 1800s at Lake Buddy, this congregation moved into Dade City and became known as Mount Zion AME Church. In 1903, with 29 members, a frame meeting house was built. It was later modified to serve as the parsonage. The present ed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A2S_st-marys-episcopal-church_Dade-City-FL.html
Organized in 1891, St. Mary's originally served Anglican settlers at Lake Pasadena. Its first resident priest, the Rev. James Neville-Thompson, was ordained there in 1892. After the "Great Freeze" in 1895 the building fell into disuse, while remna…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A2E_dade-city-grammar-school_Dade-City-FL.html
Erected in 1926 as the Florida Land Boom ended, this Collegiate Gothic style building was financed by bonds of Special Tax School District No. 7. In 1934 it was conveyed to the Pasco County Board of Public Instruction. Renamed in 1973 in memory…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1A29_townsend-house-church-cemetery_Dade-City-FL.html
Captain John Townsend and his wife, Nancy, brought their family and slaves to this area from North Florida in the late 1840's. The log home they built became the center of a pioneer community and a refuge from unfriendly Indians. After 1865 when t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMS2D_fort-king-road_Ridge-Manor-FL.html
Shortly after Florida became a U.S. Territory, Fort Brooke was constructed at the mouth of the Hillsborough River and Fort King was established near the present site of Ocala. In 1825, work was begun by the federal government on an overland route …
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