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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1EG0_confederate-states-soldiers-and-sailors_Tampa-FL.html
In Honor and Memory Of Confederate StatesSoldiers and Sailors1861 — 1865 Interred HereErected 1975 byThe Heights Garden CircleJohn T. Lesley S.C.V. CampUnited Daughters of the Confederacy
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AMH_great-1909-auto-race_Tampa-FL.html
From this point in front of The Tampa Daily Times Building on Nov. 23 1909, was started the Tampa-to-Jacksonville "endurance run" to promote good roads for Florida. Sixteen vehicles, plus the "confetti" pathfinding car and a press car, made the gr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM162G_gen-robert-e-lee-c-s-a_Tampa-FL.html
In 1848 a Board of Engineers with Lt. Col. Robert E. Lee, USA as recording officer visited Fort Brooke (Tampa). Aboard the Schooner Phenix they made a survey of Tampa Bay; requested government reservation of the bay keys and erection of defense wo…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM10MA_john-t-lesley-home_Tampa-FL.html
At this site, 407 East Street, was the home of John Thomas Lesley, built in 1897. Pioneer settler, soldier,statesman and entrepreneur, Lesley (1835 - 1913) was one of Tampa's greatest early leaders/ A native of Madison County, Florida, he came in …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMU0X_fort-brooke-cemetery_Tampa-FL.html
During the Second Seminole War (1835-42) the U.S. Army established a cemetery at this site for soldiers, civilian employees, and Indians. In 1883, about 20 soldiers were removed to Barrancas National Cemetery, Pensacola. In time the grave sites be…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMTSZ_old-fort-brooke-municipal-parking-structure_Tampa-FL.html
On this site was located the first cemetery for Fort Brooke, a U.S. military post dating from 1824 to 1882. Seminole Indians, soldiers and civilian settlers buried here were excavated by archaeologists in 1980 prior to construction of the parking …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMSYA_first-united-methodist-church_Tampa-FL.html
On July 26, 1846, the first Methodist church in Tampa was organized with seventeen founding members. They worshipped in a primitive structure built of driftwood from nearby Fort Brooke. They called it the "Church-by-the-Sea". This structure was de…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMPA7_c-cecilia-morse_Tampa-FL.html
In 1883, as a young widow with 6 children, she moved to the Catholic colony of San Antonio, FL in Pasco County only to discover that there was no school. Telling the colony's founder "The minds of the children now here won't wait" she began teachi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP6Z_alvar-nunez-cabeza-de-vaca_Tampa-FL.html
???Treasurer of the ill-fated Panfilo de Narvez expedition, was first to write of the discovery of Tampa Bay, April 17, 1528, calling it "Bahia de la Cruz, the best harbor in the world."???After the disastrous trek through Florida the remaining ex…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMP43_pioneer-priests-graves_Tampa-FL.html
Here lie the remains of five pioneer priests, the oldest known priests' graves on the West Coast of Florida. While little is known of Fr. Bayard who died in 1882, the Polish born Fr. Emil Stenzel was a priest of the Archdiocese of New York who ser…