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Historic Homestead Town Hall Museum
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Florida City | Florida East Coast Railway | Pioneers | Real Estate Speculation

Edward Stiling

Bymzhpt April 5, 2017September 8, 2022

By Jeff Blakley It is often noted that history is told by the victors. Those who don’t tell their stories are forgotten but those who do assume out-sized importance in the historical record. Such is the case with Edward Stiling, who, in the published histories of Detroit (now known as Florida City), overshadows many others,…

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Business | Homestead | Pioneers | Telephone

James Rufus Dorsey

Bymzhpt April 16, 2015May 20, 2021

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 would have been written. Jean Taylor, in her book The Villages of South Dade, wrote…

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  • Home
  • Articles
  • Digital Collections
    • South Dade High School Integration
    • Hardy Family Scrapbook
  • Finding Aids to Collections
  • Town Hall History
  • Resources
    • Automobile Owners in 1923
    • Dr. John B. Tower’s Birth Records
    • Florida City Speedway
    • Lest We Forget, by Annie Mayhew Fitzpatrick
    • Naranja Cemetery Indices
    • Township – Range Maps
  • State Archive Resources
  • Directories
    • School Directories and Yearbooks
    • Business Directories
    • Church Directories
    • Telephone Directories
  • Historic Homestead Newspapers
  • Contact
  • Volunteering