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Manifest Destiny & The War of 1812
Indian Removal in the South (1814 - 1858)
Indian Removal Act of 1830
Trail of Tears
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A Brief History of Early Florida
Florida History Summary (Brief)
Florida History Timeline
The Armed Occupation Act of 1842
Seminole Wars
Seminole Wars of Florida
The Adams-Onis Treaty or Transcontinental Treaty
Florida Becomes a State
Florida in the American Civil War
Florida History Questions
City of Brooksville
A Brief History of Hernando County
History of Brooksville
Brooksville named for Preston Brooks
Pierceville and Melendez - A Historic Journey
1877 Burning of Courthouse Symbolizes Period of Lawlessness
The Early Downtown Fires
1885 Map of Downtown Brooksville
The Brooksville Raid (Civil War)
Minister Performs Marriage of Mixed Race Couple leading to Outcry
Tangerine Hotel - Prohibition Era Murder
The Brooksville Hotel
The Varnada Hotel
The Stringer House is a Home to History
Brooksville and Hernando County Banking
Brooksville Celebrates 160 Years – Founders Week
About the Railroads
How America Got Off Its Horses and Got Moving!
The Tom Thumb - The 1st American Steam Engine -
What Do You Know About Trains
Standard Gage Railroad Track
Railroad Track Ballast
Railroad Time
History of Time Zones
Standardization of Time Zones
Coast To Time Coast Travel
Approved Railroad Watches
Accurate Railroad Watches allow Trains to Move Safely
Sears and Roebuck Sell Watches
Sears Mail Order Business (connection to the railroad)
Train Lanterns and Signals
Whyte Locomotive Wheel Classification Arrangements
Steam Locomotive Driver Wheel Types
Streamliner Trains and Henry Dryfuss
The New York Central "Hudson"
Manufactures of Steam Locomotives
Famous Old Steam Locomotives
4-4-0 "American" Type Locomotives
Railway Post Office (RPO) & Railway Mail Service
Railway Express Agency
Tour Inside a Caboose
The Refrigerated Boxcar
The Hobo
Music Inspired by the Railroads
Movies Inspired by the Railroads
Casey Jones - an American Railroader
The Florida Railroads
The Railroad Boom
Railroad Barons in Florida (Hamilton Disston, Henry Plant & Henry Flagler)
The Two Henrys'
Florida Railroad
Florida Southern Railway and Its Legacy
South Florida Railroad
Orange Belt Railway
The East Coast Railroad
The Atlantic Coast Line Railroad
Seaboard Air Line Railroad
The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad
The Seaboard System Railroad
Brooksville and Hudson Railroad
The Tampa Northern Railroad
The Peninsular Railroad Routes to Tampa Bay
CSX Transportation Railroad, a subsidiary of CSX Corporation
Railroad Maps
Brooksville Train Depot Reference
Timeline of Railroads Coming to Brooksville
When Trains First Came to Central Florida
Fitzgerald, (Croom) Florida
History of Time Zones
Brooksville's Train Depot Double Duel on the Dock
Lanterns, Hand and Color Signals
Telegraphs and Railroads
Telegraph Key and Sounder
The Transcontinental Railroad
The Pacific RR Act of 1882
The Jupiter & Engine 119 Story
10 Ways the Transcontinental Railroad Changer America
The Pullman Car Company & George Pullman
Abraham, George and Todd
The Pullman Porter
Lincoln’s Assassination helped publicize train travel
The Effie Alton Incident
Lincoln's Funeral train
People of Interest
David Levy Yulee - Flight of a Favorite Son
The Hope Family
John Joseph Hale Family
The Howell Family
The John L May Family
Frank Elmore Saxon
John Parson’s Family
The Lykes Family
Arthur St Clair - Brooksvillian
William Chipley
Peter Cooper
Samuel F B Morse
Morse Code
What Does SOS Mean?
Glass Telegraph Insulators
Morse's Paintings
Hamilton Disston
Henry Plant
Chronology of Henry Plant
Henry Plant's Florida Hotels
Henry M. Flagler
Henry Flagler's Hotels
George M. Pullman
Richard Trevithick (Inventor of the high-pressure steam engine)
Mary Florence Potts’ Removable Handle Iron
Museum Items
Fire Engine - American La France, Brooksville #1
Antique Poison Bottles
Cook – Utility Box Car
The Cummer Sons Cypress Lumber Company
Restoration of the Utility Box Car
The Ranger Box Stove
Trunks (Luggage) and the Saratoga Trunk
Candlestick Telephone
Oliver Typewriter Company
The Blue Comet
Freight Scales
Carbon Tetrachloride
Red Mountain “T” Wood Burning Cast Iron Stove
Sewing machine – Wheeler & Wilson Manufacturing Company
Spinning Wheel
Spinner’s Weasel (Pop goes the Weasel!)
Modern Greenwood Wood Parlor Stove
McClellan Saddle
Champion Blower and Forge Company
Corn Sheller
Hand Drill Press - Canedy – Otto Manufacturing Company
Hand Water Pump – F&W Hoosier
Smudge Pot
Uncle Sam (Poster)
Hernando School Bell – CS Bell and his Bell Factory
Shaker Shingles
WWII POW Treated Well at the Dade City Prison Camp – POW Bricks
Wimshurst Influencer Machine
Union Switch & Signaling System Component
Florida Industry
Railroads and Industry
Florida Cattle Industry
Florida Cracker
Masaryktown, Florida (Citrus, Chickens, and Eggs)
Florida Citrus Industry
Home of the Tangerine
Centralia Historical Memories
Centralia: A Logging Town That Ran Out of Logs
The Florida Turpentine Industry
Lewis Plantation & Turpentine Still
Moonshining - Bootleggers in the Backwoods
Sugar Cane - Raisen’ Cane and Making Syrup
US Sugar Corporation
Orphan Trains
Hernando County
Fort DeSoto - Historic Hernando
Fort Cros and Early Hernando
Early Hernando County History 1539 t0 1887
How Hernando County Was Settled
Hernando County and Prohibition
Bootleggers in the Backwoods
Moonshine and Still Operations
Hernando County Population 1850 - 1920
Bayport History
Bayport Hotel
Bayport Florida – Four Facts
Bayport (Early Hernando County History)
Bayport Village
Origins of Spring Hill
Hernando’s 100 Year Old Courthouse – Part of a long journey to justice
Hernando County - Sheriff William Cobb
The Hernando Dinosaurs
Tools the Early Pioneers used on a Daily Basis
1885 Train Depot Docent Referencee
Restoration of the Utility Box Car
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