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  • Pineapples in Sarasota: A History

    Downtown Sarasota’s New Year’s tradition is to drop a giant pineapple at the stroke of midnight. Huh? Pineapples? Sarasota doesn’t have pineapples, does it? Well we did. Yes, pineapples were once grown as a cash crop in Sarasota. William Whitaker, who homesteaded here in 1843, teamed up in the 1870’s or 1880’s with Charles Abbe,… Read more

  • And so Sarasota County begins….

    Today in History, July 3, 1921: The day before the United States’ Independence Day, having declared its independence from Manatee County, the first meeting of the Sarasota County Commission was held. “Renting space from the city in Hover Arcade, the commission set about the ordering of such essentials as equipment and record books. Taxes would… Read more

  • “It will afford a grand opportunity for the dealers to work off their surplus of bandanas”

    In so many ways, history repeats. In 1890, the house Alfred and Mary Bidwell built was not even ten years old. The Woods hadn’t even seen it, probably. Sarasota was a minor fishing village way south of Manatee. But there was a pandemic in America. It was called the Russian flu. But it wasn’t “just”… Read more