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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]
This region of Pinellas was first settled in the 1830s and 1840s by Odet Phillippe, a French Huguenot from Charleston, SC, along with the McMullen Family from Quitman, Georgia and the British Richard Booth family who planted citrus groves and raised cattle.
Mary Hardy Reeser (March 8, 1884 – July 2, 1951) of St. Petersburg, Florida, was a woman whose fiery death was surrounded by mystery, and even controversially reported at the time to be a case of spontaneous human combustion (SHC). [1] [2] She was often referred to as the "cinder lady" in newspaper accounts of the day. [3]
This center offers resources, such as documents, photos, maps, and books, focusing on the history of St. Petersburg, the wider Tampa Bay area, and Florida. This resource enables research across a spectrum of topics, from the region's indigenous communities and early European settlers to its evolution into a significant metropolitan area.
This led to a court case between the cemetery's founding family and current owner over whether burials are allowed in a section of Sunnyside at 5300 19th St. N. A judge with Pinellas County's Sixth Judicial Circuit Court decided the burials breached a decades-old contract, but delayed an order to move the graves, since this would cause up to 24 ...
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.
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
1914 Aviation history was made in St. Petersburg as Tony Jannus made the world's first scheduled airline flight with the St. Petersburg–Tampa Airboat Line from St. Petersburg to Tampa. [3]: 4 1914 Tampa and Gulf Coast Railroad extended to St. Petersburg. First SAL train arrives September 22.