On April 25, 1928, Gov. John W. Martin launched a 450-car motorcade on a one-day journey from Tampa to Everglades City in celebration of the opening of the Tamiami Trail. The Everglades’ greates

“It took extraordinary insights to turn a tangled mangrove swamp into one of America’s most exclusive residential neighborhoods. J. Glen Sample had that insight, the power, the money and t

It was those other Colliers,” stated ” Judy Sproul, granddaughter of Barron Gift Collier, as a point of clarification about some kind of dredge. Digging for information about “those

Main Street often refers to a place of traditional values, a primary retail street in a town where retailing and socializing take place. Our Main Street was once nothing more than a turn in the road b