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  • Doings around the Historical Society

    The 2014 Giving Challenge this month was such a thrill and raised much needed funds. Our portion of the over $3 million raised was Read more

  • The Colonel marries his “darling little Bright Eyes”

    On this date in 1905, Col. John Hamilton Gillespie married his second wife, Judge McDaniels’s daughter Blanche, in Sarasota. They honeymooned in Scotland. — Entry in Yesterday’s Sarasota calendar by J. Whitcomb Rylee The photo is from http://www.owenburns.com/, who honored Col. Gillespie in 2011 with merriment and golf. Read more

  • The trial of the century in Sarasota

    1885: Members of the Sarasota Vigilante Committee went on trial for the murder of Postmaster Abbe. Abbe had been involved with some of the “land barons” who had misused the laws to acquire holdings in the area. The Vigilantes killed Abbe over the scheme. — From J. Whitcombe Rylee, Yesterday’s Sarasota, a 1993 Calendar in… Read more