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The Clearwater Historical Society is an organization that researches and preserves the past of the city of Clearwater, Florida. The society was started in 1978 by friends and neighbors that wanted to save the history. In 1983, the society moved to the historic Plumb House, 1380 South Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue, Clearwater. In 2014, the ...
The estate was built in the Harbor Oaks Residential District, Clearwater's first planned residential development, that was opened in 1914 by Dean Alvord, a major developer from New York. [3] The development offered then-innovative features such as paved streets, curbs, and sidewalks, underground utility and sewer systems, and tree lined parkways .
Clearwater's oldest existing newspaper, the Clearwater Sun, was first published on March 14, 1914. [12] Clearwater was reincorporated, this time as a city, on May 27, 1915, and was designated the county seat for Pinellas County, which broke from Hillsborough County in 1912.
The Old Pinellas County Courthouse is a historic county courthouse in Clearwater, Florida, USA. It was designed by Francis J. Kennard and constructed in 1918. It replaced a hastily constructed structure created to help establish Clearwater as the county seat. [2] It is located at 315 Court Street.
The Cleveland Street United States Post Office, or simply Cleveland Street Post Office, is a historic site in Clearwater, Florida. It is located at 650 Cleveland Street. It was dedicated on October 9, 1933. It was built by the Walt and Sinclair construction firm in a Mediterranean-Revival architecture style. [2]
1859 Clear Water Harbor (later Clearwater, Florida) becomes first community on Pinellas. The first post office in Pinellas established there. [3]: 4 1861–1865 American Civil War. 1868 Anna Germain and John Donaldson are the first African-Americans to settle in lower Pinellas. [4]: 33 Road opens from Yellow Bluff (Ozona, Florida) to Tampa.
North Greenwood is a historically African American neighborhood in Clearwater, Florida. Home to the North Greenwood Library, former North Greenwood Cemetery, churches, a community center, and an African American history museum in a former school building (Curtis School), the area was once home to orange groves. Jack Russell Stadium where the ...
The Flag Building, also referred to as the Super Power Building, is the largest building in Clearwater, Florida.It is owned by the Church of Scientology and was built principally to deliver the Super Power Rundown, a high-level Scientology training course intended to train Scientologists to use what Scientology describes as all of their 57 "perceptics" or senses.