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Float for Lowery-Davis-Lapham in parade on Flagler Avenue, 28 January 1926

Parade float featuring furniture. Lowery Davis Lapham Furniture opened on Flagler Avenue in Stuart in Dec 1925. Decorated car and Kitching & Eckess also visible.

In celebration of the 1925 establishment of Martin County, the town of Stuart hosted a series of events on 28 and 29 January 1926, including a large parade. Governor John Wellborn Martin attended as special guest.

Tags Automobiles, Flags, Floats (Parades), Parades & processions

Float for Casa Lbr. Co. in parade on Flagler Avenue, 28 January 1926

Parade float with a model of a house, and sign "Better County Homes." Casa Lumber Company operated in Stuart from about 1925 to 1928. Kitching & Eckess store behind float.

In celebration of the 1925 establishment of Martin County, the town of Stuart hosted a series of events on 28 and 29 January 1926, including a large parade. Governor John Wellborn Martin attended as special guest.

Tags Flags, Floats (Parades), Parades & processions

Children dressed as sprites in parade on Flagler Avenue, 28 January 1926

Children in costumes. Partially readable sign announces "Flowers and Sprites."

In celebration of the 1925 establishment of Martin County, the town of Stuart hosted a series of events on 28 and 29 January 1926, including a large parade. Governor John Wellborn Martin attended as special guest.

Tags Children, Costumes, Flags, Parades & processions

Marching band in parade on Flagler Avenue, 28 January 1926

A band stops to play in front of Kitching & Eckess, where the governor looks on.

In celebration of the 1925 establishment of Martin County, the town of Stuart hosted a series of events on 28 and 29 January 1926, including a large parade. Governor John Wellborn Martin attended as special guest.

Tags Flags, Marching bands, Musical instruments, Parades & processions

Men's group marching in parade on Flagler Avenue, 28 January 1926

In celebration of the 1925 establishment of Martin County, the town of Stuart hosted a series of events on 28 and 29 January 1926, including a large parade. Governor John Wellborn Martin attended as special guest.

Tags Flags, Men--Societies and clubs, Parades & processions

Halifax River Yacht Club, Daytona Beach, Florida, c. 1905

Halifax River Yacht Club in Daytona Beach. Built in 1896.

Tags Buildings, Flags, Piers & wharves, Yacht clubs

Stuart Post Office, c. 1905

Broster Kitching originally established the rooming house Stuart House (later the Stuart Hotel) in the late 1880s. Flag draped over railing. After he became postmaster in 1894, the house also became the post office. He is pictured here standing on the right.

William Dowling McFarlan Jr. (1836-1925), brother Robert M. McFarlan (1843–1914), and cousin Louis Cass McFarlan (1850-1913) and his wife Lorena Maule McFarlan (1873-1962) and young son were regular winter visitors to Stuart from their home in Pennsylvania, between 1895 through about 1910. Both William, a retired merchant, and Louis, a cloth merchant, purchased several properties in Stuart between 1904 and 1907.

Tags Buildings, Flags, Post office buildings