The "Steamboat "Saint Lucie" tied up at the Rock Ledge (Rockledge) Landing.
Month: May 2014
From Skull Creek over Calibogue Sound to a Sunset over Daufuskie Island
This sunset view was taken from Skull Creek at Hilton Head Island over the Calibogue Sound. The Sound is a section of the federally controlled Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The Waterway extends some 1,400 miles from Miami, Florida, to Norfolk, Virginia. Of all the barrier islands protecting the Atlantic coast, the longest is Long Island, New [...]
From Skull Creek over Calibogue Sound to a Sunset over Daufuskie Island
This sunset view was taken from Skull Creek at Hilton Head Island over the Calibogue Sound. The Sound is a section of the federally controlled Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The Waterway extends some 1,400 miles from Miami, Florida, to Norfolk, Virginia. Of all the barrier islands protecting the Atlantic coast, the longest is Long Island, New [...]
Dipper Dredge at Work in the Intracoastal
Dipper dredge working between Delray Beach and Boynton Beach ca. 1910 in what was then called the Florida East Coast Canal. Four long steel posts at each of the four corners anchored the dredge to the bottom of the shallow canal. The A-frame allowed a steel bucket to scoop and scrape the bottom and deposit [...]
Sunset at Harbour Town
Gregg Russell concert for young and old at the Oak Tree, Harbour Town Marina, Sea Pines Plantation, Hilton Head Island, South Carolina, opening into Calibogue Sound (a section of the Intracoastal Waterway). Russell has brought his troubadour-style folk singing and story-telling to Harbour Town for over 25 years, attracting hundreds of residents and tourists, some [...]
The Steamboat “Courtenay”
The stern-wheeler "Courtenay" traveled up and down various stretches of the Florida East Coast Canal in the 1890s. Henry Flagler traveled aboard a steamer like the "Courtenay" when he made the first trip to Miami just weeks before making the first trip into Miami on his completed Florida East Coast Railway. Flagler was president of [...]
Whiskers Hangin’ Ten…I think.
Attempting a prison breakout, Whiskers clawed her way to the top. But failed in her mission to escape to the outside. Still, Whiskers had made her way to her first view of the neighborhood. Weeks later, Whiskers finally escaped to the outdoors, sneaking out through an accidentally open front door. She now prefers the luxurious life [...]
Florida Bromeliad
The Bromeliads are a family of monocot flowering plants comprising 3,170 species and found mainly in the tropical Americas. A pineapple is a bromeliad. By 1900, Florida grew more pineapples than any other place in the world, including Hawaii. By 1910, Hawaii became the number 1 place in the world for pineapple growing. Florida would [...]
Florida Coast Line Canal & Transportation Co. Report of 1885
Front cover of the Florida Coast Line Canal & Transportation Co. Report of 1885. Prospectus of the "Property and Prospects" of the company by St. Augustine civil engineer Robert E. O'Brien intended to induce new investors, many of whom had been early investors in the Bell Telephone enterprise. Large investors included George L. Bradley of [...]
Even Whiskers likes “Florida’s Big Dig,” the story of the Intracoastal Waterway
Our literate cat Whiskers peaks over the top of a book stand to view my award-winning book, "Florida's Big Dig: the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway from Jacksonville to Miami, 1881 to 1935." Winner of the Rembert Patrick Award in 2008, my book tells the story of how a privately built tollway barely five feet deep in [...]
Florida’s Big Dig 