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Brewster is a ghost town in southwest Polk County, Florida, United States, ten miles south of Mulberry. It is at an elevation of 143 feet above sea level and has been uninhabited since the early 1960s. The population is 3, according to the 2010 Census. The village of Brewster was founded in 1910 and for decades flourished from phosphate mining.
An advertisement showing the layout plans for Aladdin City, Florida, from the Homestead Leader The power plant in Brewster, Florida, 1920 The visitor's center for Flamingo, Florida Fort Jefferson, Florida is a massive but unfinished coastal fortress. It is the largest masonry structure in the Americas, [1] [2] and is composed of over 16 million ...
View history; General What links here; ... Pages in category "1910 establishments in Florida" ... Boone House (St. Petersburg, Florida) Brewster Subdivision; Brewster ...
An EMD GP38-2 diesel locomotive sits astride the tracks at the Agrock Rail switch yard.. The Agrock yard (Lat/Long: ) is a Rail yard in rural Central Florida, USA near a defunct phosphate mine and what is now the resultant ghost town in Brewster, Florida, now under the jurisdiction of Fort Meade, Florida— some 6 to 8 miles due west of the
The Charlotte Harbor and Northern Railway is a historic railroad line that at its greatest extent serviced Gasparilla Island in Charlotte Harbor and a major shipping port that once operated there. The railroad's principal purpose was to transport phosphate mined along the Peace River and in the Bone Valley region of Central Florida to the port ...
The Brewster Hospital building is a historic U.S. hospital in the LaVilla neighborhood of Jacksonville, Florida. It was located at 915 West Monroe Street. On May 13, 1976, the building was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. In 2005, it was moved across the street to 843 West Monroe Street.
Brewster & Co., American coachbuilders and automobile maker and a brand of automobile Brewster Aeronautical Corporation, the aircraft manufacturing division . Brewster F2A Buffalo, an American fighter aircraft which saw limited service early in World War II
The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. [1] They left behind artifacts and archeological remains. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records.