Martin Digital History

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  • Looking across Lake Worth to West Palm from an elevated distance.

  • The Breakers Hotel from an elevated distance.

  • Large boat filled with people and decorated with a flags. The houseboat Everglades was owned by Col. R. M. Thompson, and was built and equipped at the Hoke Boatyard in Jensen Beach.

  • Man in alligator pit while people watch. "Alligator Joe," Warren Frazee (1873-1915) operated an attraction near the gilded hotels of Palm Beach from the late 1890s until 1915. He also opened another attraction in Miami in 1906 and toured northern cities.

  • Sailboat, owned and built by Edgar Harmer.

  • Pile of lumber, with Margaret Andrews Tietig and husband Rudolph Tietig.

    In October 1904, the Italian barkentine Georges Valentine sailed from Pensacola bound for Buenos Aires. On 16 October 1904, after hitting a storm, the ship ran aground in shallow water and wrecked off Hutchinson Island near Gilbert's Bar. Five crew members perished. Their bodies were not recovered. The seven survivors found refuge at the House of Refuge just 100 yards from the wreck site, where the House of Refuge's keeper, Captain William E. Rea, rendered aid to them.

    On 19 July 2006, the Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. On 16 October 2006, it became the eleventh Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve.

  • Pile of lumber, with the Gilbert Bar House of Refuge in background.

    In October 1904, the Italian barkentine Georges Valentine sailed from Pensacola bound for Buenos Aires. On 16 October 1904, after hitting a storm, the ship ran aground in shallow water and wrecked off Hutchinson Island near Gilbert's Bar. Five crew members perished. Their bodies were not recovered. The seven survivors found refuge at the House of Refuge just 100 yards from the wreck site, where the House of Refuge's keeper, Captain William E. Rea, rendered aid to them.

    On 19 July 2006, the Georges Valentine Shipwreck Site was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. On 16 October 2006, it became the eleventh Florida Underwater Archaeological Preserve.

  • Small building on the banks of the river with tram tracks alongside.

  • Left to right: Joseph Gaff Andrews in hammock, Rudolph Tietig, Margaret Andrews Tietig, Carrie Sullivan Andrews (possibly), Albert Lewis Andrews in rocking chair, Albert Keller Andrews, Agnes Lendrum Gaff Andrews (seated), Grace Kinsley, Stella Knaul Andrews.

  • Interior, labeled porch, with wicker furniture.
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