Pigeon Key from the Seven Mile Bridge, Florida Keys

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Tue, 26 Mar 2013 05:06:36 -0700

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: JJS0128

Title: Pigeon Key from the Seven Mile Bridge, Florida Keys

Date: ca. 1955

Physical descrip: 1 transparency - col. - 4 x 5 in.

Series Title: Joseph Janney Steinmetz Collection

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.myflorida.com

Persistent URL: floridamemory.com/items/show/245138

New River Inn: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

nobody@flickr.com (State Library and Archives of Florida) — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:14:40 -0700

State Library and Archives of Florida posted a photo:

Local call number: COM08583

Title: New River Inn: Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Date: ca. 1975

General note: A nearby historical marker reads, "Old Fort Lauderdale Village at the intersection of the New River and the Florida East Coast Railway (F.E.C.) incorporates four turn-of-the-20th century historic buildings. These include the 1905 New River Inn, the 1905 Philemon N. Bryan House, the 1905 Acetylene Building, and the 1907 King Cromartie House. The New River Inn houses a Museum of History and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built for Philemon N. Bryan from hollow concrete block made on site. Bryan, a grove owner, storekeeper, and former mayor of New Smyrna, was ruined by the great Florida freeze of 1894-95. F.E.C. owner Henry Flagler (1830-1913) asked Bryan to build the railway section from the New River to Pompano. In 1894, Philemon, with his two sons Tom and Reed, brought 400 African-American workers by boat from New Smyrna to build the roadbed. The first train to Miami reached Fort Lauderdale on February 22, 1896. Philemon and his sons acquired land on either side of the railway tracks in what later became downtown Fort Lauderdale. In 1905, Contractor Edwin T. King built the Inn, the Philemon Bryan House and the nearby Tom and Reed Bryan houses, thereby creating the first Fort Lauderdale residential neighborhood."

Physical descrip: 1 slide - col.

Series Title: Department of Commerce collection

Repository: State Library and Archives of Florida, 500 S. Bronough St., Tallahassee, FL 32399-0250 USA. Contact: 850.245.6700. Archives@dos.state.fl.us

Persistent URL: www.floridamemory.com/items/show/244503

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Pigeon Key from the Seven Mile Bridge, Florida Keys

New River Inn: Fort Lauderdale, Florida