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Several pages from the Tampa City Council minutes on the subject of civil infrastructure development.

(transcription) “Mr. W.N Conoley, representing the Electric Sight Co., addressed the council on the subject of adopting the electric system of lighting the City. He proposed to furnish either arc or incandescent lights. He thought twelve or fourteen…

Tampa City Ordinance granting certain rights and privileges to the new Tampa and Thonotossassa Railway Company.

A series of maps encompassing the Tampa area in 1889.

A map of the Town of Tampa in 1884, when it had yet to industrialize.

Maps of the Town of Tampa in 1887, as the city began to expand.

Rebecca Ritter is a sophomore at St. Mary's College of Maryland. She is majoring in English Literature and the Spanish Language, with a minor concentration in Computer Science. She works for the campus newspaper, The Point News, and at the Writing…

Cabinet card photograph of Scott Maxwell, Overseer of Vaucluse Spinning of the Graniteville Manufacturing Company in Vaucluse (S.C.).

Leo Jobsis Rossignol is currently a third-year student at New College of Florida. Hailing from the Virgin Islands, Leo studied for an extensive period of time at the University of the Virgin Islands in applied math. Transferring to New College in…

A copy of the Chronicles of St. Mary’s, Monthly Bulletin of the St. Mary’s County Historical Society
Volume 10, No. 8; August 1962. A report by General Robert Hogaboom, UMSC (Ret) on the history of the Southern Maryland Railroad.