Add YOUR Family To This Page

  History of Zephyrhills, Florida, USA

Journey back in time to Zephyrhills, Florida, USA

(Abbot Station)

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

     

• Nov. 11, 1886. Simon J. Temple purchases 280.74 acres of land for $1,026.69 from Florida Railway and Navigation Corp. [He named the area Abbott; it later became Zephyrhills.]
  
  www.fivay.org/ zephyrhills.html
  
  
• 
  
  Postcard
  
• Aug. 6, 1909. The land for Zephyrhills is purchased for the Zephyrhills Colony by Capt. Jeffries, according to a 1928 newspaper article.
  
  www.fivay.org/ zephyrhills.html
  
  
• May 31, 1910. The name of the Abbott post office is changed to Zephyrhills.
  
  www.fivay.org/ zephyrhills.html
  
  
• 
  View on the Lake, 1912
  Postcard
  
• 
  City Park, 1915
  Postcard
  
• 
  Traveling in Florida, 1915
  Depot in background
  Postcard
  
• Nov. 26, 1917 - Hotel Zephyr opens in Zephryhills
  
  www.fivay.org/ zephyrhills.html
  
  
• 
  Business Section 7th Street
  Postcard
  
• 
  High School
  Postcard
  
• 
  Residence 5th Ave., 1924
  Postcard
  
• Feb. 19, 1926. The Zephyrhills News reports, “Bandits entered The American State Bank Wednesday during the lunch hour, when it was closed, choked, bound and drugged the bookkeeper and escaped with approximately $11,000.00 in cash.”
  
  www.fivay.org/ zephyrhills.html
  
  
• 
  Hennington Building, 1930
  Postcard
  
• 
  Three year old Bearing Grove
  Postcard
  
• 
  Methodist Church, 1937
  Postcard
  
• 
  The Cottage Lunch
  Postcard
  
• Mar. 15, 1940. The Dade City Banner reports: “A fire of undetermined origin destroyed the former Hennington building and three adjacent structures,
  completely wiping out one of the business blocks of Zephyrhills last Saturday morning about one-thirty o'clock, during a period of high wind which...Read MORE...
  
  
  
• 
  Zephyr Hotel
  Postcard
  
• 
  
  Postcard
  
• In 1961, Don Robinson took advantage of the area's good-tasting water and established the Zephyrhills Water Corporation.
  The company started bottling the spring water and shipping it all over the state. The town soon became well-known as "The City of Pure Water."
  www.zephyrhillschamber.org/ History.cfm