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This project is for those who were born, lived or died in St. Lucie County, Florida. The area was originally inhabited by the Ais tribe, a hunter-gatherer culture whose territory extended from south of the St. John's river to the St. Lucie Inlet. Spanish explorers frequently encountered the fierce tribe as the Spanish treasure routes ran parallel in order to take advantage of the strong Gulfs...
This project is for those who were born, lived, or died in Charlotte County, Florida. Charlotte County was established April 23, 1921. It was named for the Bay of Charlotte Harbor. "Charlotte" came from "Carlota" (Spanish). In 1565, the Spanish named "Bahia de Carlota," followed by the English in 1775 who named the area Charlotte Harbor in tribute to Queen Charlotte. Punta Gorda is the only in...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Jacksonville ,Duval County, Florida. Jacksonville is the most populous city proper in the U.S. state of Florida, located on the Atlantic coast of northeastern Florida. It is the seat of Duval County, with which the City of Jacksonville consolidated in 1968. It is the largest city by area in the contiguous United States as of 2020. Cit...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Volusia County, Florida. Volusia County was named after its largest community, Volusia, when the Florida Legislature created it by dividing Orange County on December 29, 1854. At the time, Volusia County had about 600 residents. The land area of present-day Volusia County was long inhabited by the indigenous Timucua and Mayaca people...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Orange County, Florida. The land that is Orange County was part of the first land to come up from below the Early Oligocene sea and is known as Orange Island. Orange County's Rock Spring location is a Pleistocene fossil-bearing area and has yielded a vast variety of birds and mammals including giant sloth, mammoth, camel, and the dire w...
In 1823, the Treaty of Moultrie Creek created a Seminole reservation encompassing much of central Florida, including the area that would become Orlando. The Indian Removal Act of 1830 authorized relocation of the Seminole from Florida to Oklahoma, leading to the Second Seminole War. In 1842, white settlement in the area was encouraged by the Armed Occupation Act. The first settler, Mr. Aaron Je...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Polk County, Florida. The first people to inhabit the area now called Polk County were the Paleoindians who arrived in Florida at least 12,000 years ago, late in the last ice age. With large amounts of water locked up in continental ice caps, the sea level was more than 150 feet lower than at present. The Florida peninsula was twice as...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Laurel Hill, Florida. The area which is now Laurel Hill was one of the first post-American annexation English-speaking settlements in Florida. There had been settlements by English-speaking loyalists in Florida during the American Revolution. Settlers were documented establishing a community, originally known as Almirante, soon after Fl...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Highlands County, Florida. Highlands County was created in 1921 along with Charlotte, Glades, and Hardee, when they were separated from DeSoto County. It was named for the terrain of the county. It boasted the fifth-oldest population in America in 2012. Wikipedia
Wikipedia The University of South Florida, also known as USF, is an American metropolitan public research university located in Tampa, Florida, United States. USF also a member institution of the State University System of Florida. Founded in 1956, USF is the fourth-largest public university in the state of Florida, with a total enrollment of 48,373 as of the 2014–2015 academic year. The USF ...
This project is for those who worked and made innovations in the Florida Citrus Industry in various duties and work. Florida is one of the world’s largest producers of citrus, yet citrus did not have its beginnings here. It originally came from southeast Asia and spread westward. Oranges first reached the New World in 1493, carried aboard ships commanded by Christopher Columbus. Soon afterwa...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Hiahleah, Dade County, Florida. Official Website The city's name is most commonly attributed to Muskogee origin, "Haiyakpo" (prairie) and "hili" (pretty) combining in "Hialeah" to mean "pretty prairie". Alternatively, the word is of Seminole origin meaning "Upland Prairie". The city is located upon a large prairie between Biscayne Bay ...
This cemetery was established in 1936 and is the only gated memorial park in Marion County, Florida. This cemetery is adjacent to Woodlawn and Greenwood. It is privately owned by Hiers-Baxley Funeral Home. It is a large, well-manicured, cemetery with places for entombment, inurnment and below ground burials. There is a nice section for Military memorials. The cemetery also encompasses Hillcres...
The cemetery is located on Highway 16 West (also known as Idlewild Avenue) and is located on the West side of Helm Funeral Home across the Street from the Old Hickory Grove Cemetery, Green Cove springs, Clay County, Florida. These two cemeteries are completely separate and should not be confused as one. Find a Grave Hickory Grove Baptist Church was organized in 1863, and the church’s congr...
This project is for those that were born, lived or died in Hernando County, Florida. In 1767, a group of Upper Creeks from Eufaula, Alabama, migrated to the Tampa Bay region and settled in what is now Hernando County. They would eventually become a part of the Muskogee speaking Seminole. Roughly 100 settlers and over 50 slaves arrived in what would become Hernando County in February 1842. For...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Hendry County, Florida. Indigenous peoples migrated into Florida around 10000 B.C.E., while the Glades culture existed in southern Florida from approximately 500 B.C.E. to 1500 C.E. Archaeological sites attesting to the presence of the Glades culture in modern-day Hendry County include Clewiston Mounds, Maple Mound, South Lake Mounds, a...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Fort Lauderdale, Broward County, Florida. Fort Lauderdale is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, 30 miles north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean. It is the county seat of and largest city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, making it the tenth largest city in Florida. After Miami and Hial...
Old Hamilton Place Cemetery, Polk County, Florida, USA: This cemetery is in the Polk County Cemetery Book Vol 4. Old Hamilton Place Cemetery Section 6 Township 29, Range 23, West of Lakeland, Florida.
This project id for those that were born, lived and died in Hardee County, Florida. Hardee County was created by an act of April 23, 1921 in which the Florida Legislature divided "old DeSoto County" into five parts, forming the Counties of Hardee, DeSoto, Charlotte, Highlands and Glades. The county is named after Cary A. Hardee , the Governor of Florida who served from 1921 to 1925 and who si...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Hamilton County, Florida. Hamilton County was created in 1827 from portions of Jefferson County. It was named for Alexander Hamilton , First Secretary of the U.S. Treasury. Wikipedia
This cemetery is located on 801 NW Sixth Avenue, Hallandale Beach, Broward County, Florida. Find a Grave Interment.net
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This cemetery is located on 2401 Englewood Road, Englewood, Sarasota County, Florida. Find a Grave
This project is for those from Gulf Breeze, Santa Rosa, Florida. Gulf Breeze is a city in Santa Rosa County, Florida. It is a suburb of Pensacola, and is in the Pensacola Metropolitan Area. The population was 6,340 in 2020 and is 6,963 as of 2024. Gulf Breeze is located just north of Pensacola Beach, and south of Pensacola. Gulf Breeze is on the Fairpoint Peninsula, and is bordered by Navarre...
This project is for those who were born, lived or died in Gulf County, Florida Gulf County, created in 1925, was named for the Gulf of Mexico. Wewahitchka was its first county seat and the 1927 Gulf County Courthouse is still there. In 1965, the county seat was moved to Port Saint Joe, which under its original name Saint Joseph, had been the site of Florida's first Constitutional Convention i...