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Two Historic Houses Lost

Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum Posted on May 27, 2016 by JeffMarch 28, 2018

by Jeff Blakley I was saddened to learn from Karon Buckley that two of our historic houses were recently demolished: the Kosel home at the northwest corner of Redland and Plummer and the Schaff house, on Krome at 273rd St. … Continue reading →

Posted in Homestead, Real Estate Speculation | Tagged Historic Preservation, Kosel, Schaff | 1 Reply

Grossman Hammock

Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum Posted on May 11, 2016 by JeffMarch 28, 2018

By Jeff Blakley Did you ever go out to Grossman’s Hammock before it became part of Everglades National Park to see the sulphur spring? Did you ever wonder where it got its name? Did you wonder if perhaps the name … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Maps, Parks | Tagged Everglades National Park, Grossman | 5 Replies

Rev. Joseph M. Cormack

Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum Posted on February 20, 2016 by JeffMarch 28, 2018

By Jeff Blakley In this post, my goal is to draw a better picture of the Reverend J. M. Cormack, whose name appears in other stories written about the early history of the Florida City and Homestead areas. In those … Continue reading →

Posted in Churches, Florida City | Tagged Cormack, Ewing, Sturgis | Leave a reply

Homestead’s First Postmaster

Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum Posted on January 7, 2016 by JeffMarch 28, 2018

By Jeff Blakley Shortly after I published David Torcise’s Google Earth map of the locations of the homesteads of early settlers in this area, I received an e-mail from a man who thanked David and me for our work and … Continue reading →

Posted in Florida East Coast Railway, Homestead | Tagged Dusenbury, Florid East Coast Railway, Krome, Parlin | Leave a reply

Mapping Homesteads in South Dade

Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum Posted on January 3, 2016 by JeffMarch 28, 2018

By Jeff Blakley When I started researching the early settlers of Florida City and Homestead in April of 2015, I soon wanted to know exactly where they had claimed their homesteads. The links on the sidebar entitled BLM Tract books … Continue reading →

Posted in Maps | Tagged Google Earth, Homesteads, Maps | Leave a reply

The Krome Survey Overlaid on Google Earth

Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum Posted on January 3, 2016 by JeffMarch 28, 2018

by Jeff Blakley After David Torcise performed his magic with the original homesteads in South Dade, I discovered Krome’s 1903 Cape Sable Expedition Survey and wondered if it might be possible to overlay it on a satellite view of the … Continue reading →

Posted in Florida East Coast Railway, Maps | Tagged Krome, Torcise | Leave a reply

A Very Short History of Florida City

Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum Posted on December 29, 2015 by JeffMarch 28, 2018

By Jeff Blakley At the turn of the 20th century, Florida City (originally known as Detroit) was marketed by its developer, the Miami Land & Development Company, as a planned agricultural community. While Homestead, to the north, had its roots … Continue reading →

Posted in Florida City, Real Estate Speculation | Tagged Detroit, Florida City, Longview, Sottile, Stiling, Tatum | Leave a reply

Mae Williams and the Good Old Days

Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum Posted on December 24, 2015 by JeffMarch 28, 2018

By Jeff Blakley The following article was generously shared with us by Robert Fuchs, the owner of RF Orchids in Homestead, Florida. In it, Margaret Mae Stull Williams, Robert’s maternal grandmother, relates how she and her husband came to Homestead … Continue reading →

Posted in Uncategorized | Tagged East Glade, Fuchs, Longview Club, Naranja, Williams | Leave a reply

Telephone Companies in Early Homestead

Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum Posted on December 24, 2015 by JeffMarch 28, 2018

By Jeff Blakley In my earlier post about Walter A. Frazeur, I relied on Jean Taylor’s information about how the People’s Telephone Company was established. She wrote that J.U. Free bought the three circuits that belonged to Walter Frazeur in … Continue reading →

Posted in Business, Homestead, Redland | Tagged Dade County Telephone Company, Frazeur, Free, People's Telephone Company | Leave a reply

Camp Longview

Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum Posted on December 20, 2015 by JeffMarch 28, 2018

By Jeff Blakley Anyone who starts to delve into the early history of this area soon reads about William J. Krome’s survey of a proposed route for the extension of the Florida East Coast Railway from Homestead to Key West … Continue reading →

Posted in Florida City, Florida East Coast Railway | Tagged Cape Sable, Detroit, Krome, Longview | Leave a reply

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