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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29XW_mable-ringling-memorial-fountain-luke-wood-park_Sarasota-FL.html
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Mable Ringling Memorial Fountain
Mable Ringling, born Armilda Burton on March 4, 1875, married John Ringling on 1905 and became a Sarasota winter resident in 1911. Mable, an avid gardener, created the formal Ca'd'Zan rose garden. In the…
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John D. MacDonald
1916-1986
During his years in Sarasota, John D. MacDonald became one of America's great writers. He published sixty-seven novels, five nonfiction works, more than five hundred short stories, and received numerous ac…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TY4_sarasotas-bayfront-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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Sarasota Bay and its downtown bayfront have long been considered the brightest jewels in Sarasota's crown. In 1910 Bertha Palmer, who helped put Sarasota on the international map, proclaimed Sarasota Bay more beautiful than the Bay of Napl…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TY3_city-of-sarasota-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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On a bright spring morning in 1885, a surveying team from the Florida Mortgage and Investment Company cleared a ten foot area in what is today the center of Five Points. The group was led by Richard Paulson who announced: "We will lay out …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW9_bidwell-wood-house-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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In 1882 this "handsome residence" was under construction for Alfred and Mary Bidwell on land Mary purchased from the State of Florida for one dollar an acre. Before construction the Bidwell's apparently occupied the detached kitchen-dining…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW8_mary-wyatt-whitaker-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
Two hundred feet east of this highway is the tomb of
Mary Wyatt Whitaker
Born at Tallahassee, Florida, April 11, 1831; daughter of William Wyatt, member of the convention which gave to the state of Florida its first constitution; mother of the f…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW7_whitaker-family-gateway-2000-executive-committee-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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Whitaker Family
William Henry Whitaker arrived in Sarasota Bay in the early 1840s. He built a cedar log cabin at "Yellow Bluffs," part of nearly 200 acres he would acquire along the bay between Hog Creek and today's Indian Beach…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW6_landing-of-the-scots-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
On December 23, 1885 a number of Scottish families came ashore on or near this spot to settle land they had purchased for their homes in a new country. They met wilderness and hardship instead of the established town promised them; causing many to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW4_cedar-point-sunset-park-cedar-point-golden-gate-point-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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Cedar Point/Sunset Park
Cedar Point, a hook of land on Sarasota Bay, was platted in 1899 and recorded as an addition to the Town of Sarasota in 1900. Split into north and south sections by North Gulf Stream Avenue, Cedar Point was home to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1TW3_the-circle-at-st-armands-historical_Sarasota-FL.html
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Decades after conception, St Armands Circle has fulfilled John Ringling's dream of a premier shopping district. Conceived during Florida's real estate boom, St Armands was part of the John Ringling Estates Development and the jewel of Ring…