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Palm City real estate brochure, c. 1955
Real Estate brochure for Palm City.Tags Real estate business -
Hunting portrait, c. 1916
Jim Boggan and John E. Taylor (on right) pose next to two hanging deer at a hunting camp. -
Horse at Crane Creek Ranch, 1972
Horse alongside a pond in Palm City. Published in the Stuart News (30 Apr 1972) with caption "A Horse is refreshed by the cool water of a winding stream on Crane Creek Ranch in Palm City. With summer fast approaching, many of us will soon be doing the same thing." -
Early Palm City essays by Rose Walton, c. 1995
Three essays by Rose Roebuck Walton (1920-2007) on early Palm City History: Early Palm City, A Little Bit of History, Outstanding People I Remember in Palm City. -
Family portrait in yard, 1939
Group portrait in the yard at the Smith house in Palm City. Identifications noted on margins of print: John Casper (great grandfather), William Feinauer (grandfather), James Feinauer (donor), Clarence Feinauer (father), David Feinauer (brother), Eva Bell Feinauer (mother), Leona Smith (grandmother), Bell Ross (great grandmother) and Mary Simmons (great, great grandmother).
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Descendants of Elias Simmons, c. 1923
Published in A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida, written by Sandra Thurlow and Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch (p. 49) with caption reading "Descendants of Elias Simmons pose for the camera around 1923. (Left to right, back row) Leona Smith holding Miriam, Minnie Belle Ross Simmons, Urah Ross, Donald Ross, Fred Ross, Lucille Ross Witham. (Children in front) Stella Smith, Eva Bell Smith, and Kate Witham."
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Simmons Family portrait, 1937
Published in A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida written by Sandra Thurlow and Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch (p. 49) with caption reading "Five generations of the Simmons family were photographed in Palm City in April of 1937. Elias Simmons, in the center, holds baby James Feinauer. Mary Simmons is seated at left and Belle Simmons Ross Smith is seated at right. Standing at left is Leona Ross, a grandmother at age 36, and her daughter, Eva Smith Feinauer."
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Mary and Elias Simmons, 1912
Mary and Uriah 'Elias' Simmons pose next to an automobile. The Simmons became Palm City homesteaders around 1890 when they came to the area from Ohio. Elias learned the craft of boat building from Hubert Bessey and beekeeping from Col. O. O. Poppleton.
Published in A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida, written by Sandra Thurlow and Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch (p. 48).
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View along Martin Highway, 1945
Walter "Buddy" Wells captures a photograph along Martin Highway (SR 714).
Published in A Pictorial History of Palm City, Florida written by Sandra Thurlow and Jacqui Thurlow-Lippisch (p. 117) with the following caption: "Walter Wells, and other servicemen who camped on Martin Grade when they returned from World War II, captured this view in 1945." -
Palm City Woman's Club building, 1926
The Woman's Club building in Palm City. Funding for the building provided by early Palm City developer, Charles Chillingworth and the building's dedication was held 23 November 1915.
The 1928 hurricane destroyed the building. The Palm City Congregational Church was also destroyed by the hurricane but was quickly rebuilt and the Woman's Club began meeting at the church during that time and continued to do so even into the 1950s.