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The Treasure Coast area that became Stuart was first settled by non-Native Americans in 1870. In 1875, a United States Lifesaving Station was established on Hutchinson Island, near Stuart. Today, the station is known as Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge and is on the National Register of Historic Places. From 1893 to 1895, the area was called Potsdam.
A shell midden at Enterprise, Florida in 1875.. The foundation of Florida was located in the continent of Gondwana at the South Pole 650 million years ago (Mya). When Gondwana collided with the continent of Laurentia 300 Mya, it had moved further north. 200 Mya, the merged continents containing what would be Florida, had moved north of the equator.
The Stuart period of British history lasted from 1603 to 1714 during the dynasty of the House of Stuart. The period was plagued by internal and religious strife, and a large-scale civil war which resulted in the execution of King Charles I in 1649.
A sign in the window of Osceola Street Cafe in Downtown Stuart, Florida, Sept. 9, 2024, in support of the Brightline train station that city commissioners voted to oppose that same day.
Visitors to the museum today can see Parks' potbelly stove among other artifacts from Stuart and Martin County history. More than 10,000 people visited the museum last year. Keith Burbank is ...
Along the western banks of the Indian River, and often on the barrier island for the region (Hutchinson Island and Orchid Island), is Florida State Road A1A. Beginning in Stuart, Florida State Road 76 runs west out of Stuart, passing Indiantown around halfway through before ending at an intersection with U.S. 98/441 in Port Mayaca.
Many Stuart environmentalists opposed the plan during Thursday's regular meeting of the Rivers Coalition, a citizen nonprofit group formed in 1998 to stop discharges. LOSOM allows Lake O discharges
A restoration colony was one of a number of land grants in North America given by King Charles II of England in the later half of the 17th century, ostensibly as a reward to his supporters in the Stuart Restoration. The grants marked the resumption of English colonization of the Americas after a 30-year hiatus.