by Jeff Blakley I subscribed to Genealogy Bank the other day, at the suggestion of Larry Wiggins, and I’ve found it to be an invaluable source of information about the early days of this area. As I was reading newspaper … Continue reading →
by Jeff Blakley I started out my working life as a rod man for a civil engineering company and I’ve never lost my fascination with land records as a rich source of information on the residents of a particular area. … Continue reading →
by Jeff Blakley I am indebted to Ed McMichael for much of the information in this post. Without his help, it couldn’t have been written. Or, perhaps I should say, a much leaner version with much less information in it … Continue reading →
by Jeff Blakley While reading an article in Tequesta by Jeanne Bellamy, I ran across the name A.C. Graw, which was familiar to me from viewing a photograph of what is thought to be his yacht, moored in the Florida … Continue reading →
By Jeff Blakley In this post, I’m going to detour from my previous posts about pioneering families so that I can bring the role of the Florida East Coast Railway into the picture. Because history is not a popular subject … Continue reading →
by Jeff Blakley How often have you driven south on U.S. 1 and seen the sign designating J. D. Redd Park on the right, just after passing Capital Bank? Did you ever wonder who he was? I had an idea … Continue reading →
by Jeff Blakley In my post on Walter Arthur Frazeur, I mentioned John U. Free in connection with telephony in early Homestead. In this post, I want to present a brief biography of him. I am aware that there is … Continue reading →
by Jeff Blakley About a year ago, I went to a meeting of the Historic Preservation Board of the City of Homestead and learned that one of their items of interest was to designate the former Southern Bell central office, … Continue reading →
By Jeff Blakley John Wilbur Hunt was born on December 18, 1865 in Huntsville, Mississippi. His father was John Jackson Hunt and his mother was Mary Eliza Cook. In the 1880 U.S. Census, he was living with his father and … Continue reading →
By Jeff Blakley When I was a boy, my mother used to take my brother and I to the Bryan H. Edwards park in Florida City, where we would play on the jungle gym and see how high we could … Continue reading →
