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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2CC8_south-creek-trestle-oscar-scherer-history_Osprey-FL.html
South Creek Trestle In early 1900 Seaboard Air Line Railroad (SAL) controlled 2,600 miles of track stretching from Virginia to Florida. In 1911 SAL constructed a 16.5-mile extension from Sarasota (Fruitville Junction) to Venice. The bridge over …
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Front Side of Marker: This 30-acre preserve includes prehistoric shell middens and a burial mound dating from 3,000 B.C. to 1,000 A.D., buildings from the homestead of John Greene Webb, and gardens from the winter estate of Mrs. Potter Palmer. …
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[Front side of Marker] The Osprey School served the Osprey and Vamo communities from 1927 through June 1976. It was one of four boom-time schools which were designed by Tampa architect M. Leo Elliot and built along the Tamiami Trail between 192…
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Bequeathed by his daughterElsa Scherer Burrows 1884-1955in memory of her father 1856-1923"That man may last, but never lives,who much receives, but nothing gives;whom none can love, - whom none can thank,creation's blot, creation's blank."? ? ? ? …
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