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  History of Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA

Journey back in time to Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA

Visit Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA. Discover its history. Learn about the people who lived there through stories, old newspaper articles, pictures, postcards and genealogy.

     

• 1892 - February 29 - St. Petersburg, Florida is incorporated.
  
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  Heavy Traffic on the Recreation Pier, St. Petersburg, Fla. "The Sunshine City"
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• 1906
  Saint Petersburg, a banking post-town of Hillsboro co., Fla., on Tampa Bay and on the Atlantic Coast Line, 31 miles S. of Tarpon Springs. It has ice...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Central Avenue from 3rd Street
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  Saint Peters Episcopal Church
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• 1914 - The world's first scheduled commercial airline flight occurred in Florida on January 1, 1914.
  Young aviator Tony Jannus made history when he flew the world's first scheduled passenger service airline flight from St. Petersburg's downtown yacht ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  Beach Drive from Fifth Avenue
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  First National Bank
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  Million Dollar Senior High School
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  Vinoy Park Hotel
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•  1921 - SOUTH FLORIDA COUNTS LOSSES. Gulf Hurricane Does Great Damage. TAMPA SUFFERS MOST. Gale Wipes Out Small Obstacles in Path but Few Lives Are Lost.
  ...Jacksonville, Fla., Oct. 26. - The entire waterfront of St. Petersburg was wiped out by the gulf storm yesterday, the worst gale the city has ever ...Read MORE...
  
  
  
•  1922 - ATTACKED BY FISH, YOUNG LADY DIES
  ST. PETERSBURG, Fla., June 17. — Supposedly attacked by barracuda, a species of carnivorous fish, while swimming near the municipal pier today, Miss...Read MORE...
  
  
  
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  First Church of Christ, Scientist
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  Mound Park Hospital
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  Madeira Beach Shopping Center, Holiday Isles
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  Airplane View of Million Dollar Recreation Pier
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  Famous Green Benches
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• 1953 - May 31 - WSUN TV channel 38 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
  
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•  1955 - Fall Proves Fatal
  St. Petersburg, Fla., (AP) – Mack HOPEEN, 37, a construction worker, rolled off a divan where he was sleeping, struck his neck on the ragged edge of...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 1970 - September 7 - A lightning bolt struck a group of football players at Gibbs High School in Saint Petersburg FL, killing two persons and injuring 22 others. All the thirty-eight players and four coaches were knocked off their feet.
  
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