By Jeff Blakley I was recently sent a series of photographs taken in Detroit in 1911. I’ve managed to identify some of the people in the photographs. One of them, I think, is that of Alice M. Graves, wife of … Continue reading →
Paul McHugh wrote these recollections about growing up in Homestead in the 1950s. The son of George and Delphine McHugh, he grew up in an oak hammock not far from South Dade High School. His father, George, was a general … Continue reading →
The following article written by Charles H. Gossman appeared in the Homestead Enterprise on October 3, 1918. The descendants of Charles H. Gossman married into the Caves, Chambers, Aman and Vihlen families, among others. “Uncle Nick” is Lilburn R. Nixon, … Continue reading →
This document was transcribed from a very fragile typescript at the Town Hall Museum. The context indicates that it was written prior to 1927, the date that the Seaboard Railroad arrived in Homestead. George Washington Kosel was born on August … Continue reading →