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St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States.As of the 2020 census, the population was 258,308, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the most populous city in the state that is not a county seat (the city of Clearwater is the seat of Pinellas County). [4]
St. Petersburg was incorporated on February 29, 1892, when it had a population of only some 300 people. It was named after Saint Petersburg, Russia, ...
1884 – The St. Petersburg Times was established. [2] 1888 Peter Demens brings railroad into St. Petersburg. [1] The first hotel is built, named the Detroit Hotel. [3] 1892 Town of St. Petersburg incorporated. [4] David Moffett becomes first mayor of St. Petersburg. [5] 1897 – Electrical service established. [1] 1899
There have been 54 mayors of St. Petersburg, Florida. David Moffett was the city's first mayor. The current mayor is Ken Welch, the city's first African American mayor. Late 19th century mayor J. A. Armistead had an opera house. He allowed Indian mounds on his property to be excavated for research.
Peter Demens (May 13 [O.S. May 1] 1850 – January 21, 1919), [1] born Pyotr Alexeyevitch Dementyev (Russian: Пётр Алексеевич Дементьев), was a Russian nobleman who migrated in 1881 to the United States and became a railway owner and one of the founders of St. Petersburg, Florida, United States.
St. Petersburg Museum of History; Secular Islam Summit; T. History of the Tampa Bay Rays This page was last edited on 4 August 2013, at 06:19 (UTC). Text is ...
Bill Heller (1935-2020), Member of the Florida House of Representatives and Dean of the University of South Florida St. Petersburg College of Education. Zeola Hershey Misener (1878–1966), suffragist and one of the first women elected to the Indiana General Assembly [ 53 ]
Tomlinson was a major patron to the students of St. Petersburg. He spent $10,000 to build the city's first brick school, also known as Florida's First Manual Training School. The school opened in 1901. It offered classes in military science, manual arts, and homemaking. He would later deed the school to the City of St. Petersburg. [1]