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  • Two men pose with their arms around each other at an Indiantown Development Company event. The men stand in front of a circular development plan.
  • Long table filled with people at an Indiantown Development Company event.
  • People seated at a table for an Indiantown Development Company event.
  • Long table filled with people at an Indiantown Development Company event. A man speaks at a podium in the background.
  • Group portrait at an Indiantown Co. Inc. groundbreaking ceremony celebrated on December 15, 1957. The group poses in front of a large crane and other construction vehicles. The corner of a building also in view in the background. According to The Stuart News (Thu, Dec 19, 1957), work began on a housing development for Indiantown Pratt & Whitney employees in December of 1957. This group portrait was taken at an event related to this planned community and other development plans for Indiantown.
  • Photo published in The Stuart News (Thu, Dec 19, 1957) with caption: "County Commissioner E. J. Arnold turned the first shovelful of dirt for the 600-home Indiantown project, Sunday afternoon. Shown with him are, left to right, County Commissioners Charles Leighton and Seymour Gideon; Earl Johnson, local manager for Indiantown Co., Inc., and H. C. Honour, Employees' Service supervisor of Pratt & Whitney Florida operations--Staff photo by Ed Gluckler."
  • Group portrait at an Indiantown Development Company groundbreaking ceremony celebrated on December 15, 1957. Several buildings or homes and cars in view behind the group. According to The Stuart News (Thu, Dec 19, 1957), work began on a housing development for Indiantown Pratt & Whitney employees in December of 1957. This group portrait was taken at an event related to this planned community and other development plans for Indiantown.
  • Nearly identical photo published in The Stuart News (Thu, Dec 27, 1956) with caption: "New Switchboard Modernizes Phone System. County Commissioner Earl Knoll of Indiantown, pulls the switch as the new system for Indiantown Telephone Co. goes into operation. Others are (left to right) Wilkins Linhart, telephone engineer for the Florida Railroad and Public Utilities Commission, O. D. Hataway, representing merchants of the area, J. W. Fortson, farm manager for A. Duda & Son, and J. E. Yelvington, farm manager for Burrell & Son. The new service greatly expedites long distance communication vital to the section's growers and shippers."
  • County Commissioner Earl Knoll speaks on the phone at the Indiantown Telephone Co. after an upgrade to the switchboard.
  • Studio portrait of Betty Lightsey. According to The Stuart News (Thu, Sep 28, 1972), Lightsey worked at the First Bank of Indiantown beginning in 1958 and was promoted to Assistant Cashier in 1972. Betty Hataway Lightsey was the daughter of Jimmy and Sallie Yates Hataway. She married Bruce Lightsey.
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