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Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale in the 1800s. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Fort Lauderdale in the 1800s. Show all posts
Tuesday, November 1, 2022

South Florida's first automobiles: who drove what and when?

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First car in Miami  C.H. Billings, 1899 a Locomobile  State  of Florida Archives By Jane Feehan Automobiles soared in popularity across th...
Thursday, September 8, 2022

Bahia Mar: "more business, publicity to Fort Lauderdale than any other man-made attraction"

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  Bahia Mar circa 1960s, Florida State Archives/Florida Memory Bahia Mar 801 Seabreeze Boulevard Fort Lauderdale, FL 33316 By Jane Feehan ...
Thursday, April 1, 2021

Fort Lauderdale's pioneer and the Stranahan House

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           335 SE 6th Ave Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301 954-524-4736 http://stranahanhouse.org/ By Jane Feehan   Fort Lauderdale pioneer Fr...
Saturday, October 31, 2020

Three forts of Fort Lauderdale, the third remembered

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Site of third Fort Lauderdale - South Beach, across from Bahia Mar By Jane Feehan Maj. William Lauderdale of Tennessee was sent to Flor...
Friday, October 23, 2020

Fort Lauderdale, Lt. Powell, riverine warfare ... and a Vietnam connection

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  Fort Lauderdale waterway 1900 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Fort Lauderdale’s namesake, Major William Lauderdale built a fort in t...
Saturday, July 25, 2020

Go WEST they said. No, EAST ... early Fort Lauderdale

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1916  Florida State Archives/Florida Memory Known today for its beautiful beaches and tropical scenery, Fort Lauderdale was once considered...
Tuesday, January 8, 2019

Las Olas Inn, long gone and mostly forgotten Fort Lauderdale

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Las Olas Inn - postcard Florida State Archives/Florida Memory      By Jane Feehan During the late 1800s, pioneer Frank Stranahan’s activ...
Tuesday, November 6, 2018

Fort Lauderdale: Once hustling little village with

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Fort Lauderdale  New River circa 1910 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Not much more than an overnight stop for the mail coach ...
Monday, May 18, 2015

SOFLA Travelogue 1880s: Of fishing, sailing, an earthquake and more …

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Wonderland, by George Potter of Lake Worth   By Jane Feehan In the late 1870s, Ohio physician James A. Henshall (1836-1925) urged...
Friday, March 7, 2014

Houses of Refuge, Fort Lauderdale and New River House No. 4

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Courtesy of Broward County Historical Commission By Jane Feehan     A swim to land after surviving a ship wreck did not guaran...
Tuesday, March 19, 2013

Two cousins, a stage line, and early Fort Lauderdale

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By Jane Feehan Ohioan Guy Irwin Metcalf (1866-1918) started up the first newspaper along the southeast coast of Florida,  The Ind...