Jane's History Nook

Florida agricultural map 1905 State Archives of Florida   Compiled by Jane Feehan South Florida looks desolate relative to the northern area...

Fort Lauderdale Beach   By Jane Feehan Settlers first came to Fort Lauderdale with farming in mind. It was the Everglades they set their hop...

Osceola Hotel ,Fort Lauderdale, circa 1910 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan Some say the Osceola Hotel was Fort Lauderdale’s first, but...

  Thomas Simpson Kennedy (1859-1939), a North Carolinian, made his way to Florida after service with the U.S. Army during the Spanish Americ...

  Osceola Hotel burns down 1913, next to  and a year after big fire of 1912 Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan On June 1, 1912, about a y...

  First Belonged to Charles Cory  Florida State Archives By Jane Feehan It could be said that Fort Lauderdale’s first houseboat, the  Wander...

Shirttail Charlie 1910 Florida State Archives/Florida Memory   By Jane Feehan With a past that was the stuff of folklore rather than fact, S...

By Jane Feehan One story, a true one about early Fort Lauderdale, often crosses my mind as a terrific opening scene of a movie. A d...

FLHS circa 1940s State Archives of Florida By Jane Feehan The opening of Fort Lauderdale Central High School* on Sept. 17, 1915 w...

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

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