Mrs. Julia Atzeroth. University of South Florida Tampa Library still image eng Born in Bavaria on December 27, 1807, she came to Terra Ceia in the spring of 1843 with her husband Joseph Atzeroth, in order to improve her health. Because she always called her husband "Mr. Joe", she came to be called "Madam Joe" by other early settlers along the Manatee River. The hard work of helping her husband clear some of their sixty acre homestead with an axe began to strengthen her. They erected a log-pen house to replace the original palmetto thatched hut. In these early days they also resided part of the time in Tampa, where Madam Joe ran a beer and cake shop that became popular with the soldiers. Even while on Terra Ceia, she spent a lot of time on the homestead. Her husband aided the U.S. Navy's boat-search parties during the 3rd Seminole War, 1855-1858 and served in Tennessee and Kentucky during his Confederate service. He died at Terra Ceia in 1871. Madam Joe sold part of the Terra Ceia plantation in 1873 and moved to Fogartyville, across the Manatee River, where she lived with her daughter Eliza (Mrs. William) Fogarty. In her old age she grew coffee from seed received from the Warner's of Palma Sola and sent four pounds of coffee to President Rutherford B. Hayes, for which she recieved a ten dollar gold piece. This was the first coffee grown in the continental United States. Born in Bavaria on December 27, 1807, she came to Terra Ceia in the spring of 1843 with her husband Joseph Atzeroth, in order to improve her health. Because she always called her husband "Mr. Joe", she came to be called "Madam Joe" by other early settlers along the Manatee River. The hard work of helping her husband clear some of their sixty acre homestead with an axe began to strengthen her. They erected a log-pen house to replace the original palmetto thatched hut. In these early days they also resided part of the time in Tampa, where Madam Joe ran a beer and cake shop that became popular with the soldiers. Even while on Terra Ceia, she spent a lot of time on the homestead. Her husband aided the U.S. Navy's boat-search parties during the 3rd Seminole War, 1855-1858 and served in Tennessee and Kentucky during his Confederate service. He died at Terra Ceia in 1871. Madam Joe sold part of the Terra Ceia plantation in 1873 and moved to Fogartyville, across the Manatee River, where she lived with her daughter Eliza (Mrs. William) Fogarty. In her old age she grew coffee from seed received from the Warner's of Palma Sola and sent four pounds of coffee to President Rutherford B. Hayes, for which she recieved a ten dollar gold piece. This was the first coffee grown in the continental United States. United States Florida--Manatee County--Terra Ceia Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection
Mrs. Julia Atzeroth.
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Born in Bavaria on December 27, 1807, she came to Terra Ceia in the spring of 1843 with her husband Joseph Atzeroth, in order to improve her health. Because she always called her husband "Mr. Joe", she came to be called "Madam Joe" by other early settlers along the Manatee River. The hard work of helping her husband clear some of their sixty acre homestead with an axe began to strengthen her. They erected a log-pen house to replace the original palmetto thatched hut. In these early days they also resided part of the time in Tampa, where Madam Joe ran a beer and cake shop that became popular with the soldiers. Even while on Terra Ceia, she spent a lot of time on the homestead. Her husband aided the U.S. Navy's boat-search parties during the 3rd Seminole War, 1855-1858 and served in Tennessee and Kentucky during his Confederate service. He died at Terra Ceia in 1871. Madam Joe sold part of the Terra Ceia plantation in 1873 and moved to Fogartyville, across the Manatee River, where she lived with her daughter Eliza (Mrs. William) Fogarty. In her old age she grew coffee from seed received from the Warner's of Palma Sola and sent four pounds of coffee to President Rutherford B. Hayes, for which she recieved a ten dollar gold piece. This was the first coffee grown in the continental United States.
Born in Bavaria on December 27, 1807, she came to Terra Ceia in the spring of 1843 with her husband Joseph Atzeroth, in order to improve her health. Because she always called her husband "Mr. Joe", she came to be called "Madam Joe" by other early settlers along the Manatee River. The hard work of helping her husband clear some of their sixty acre homestead with an axe began to strengthen her. They erected a log-pen house to replace the original palmetto thatched hut. In these early days they also resided part of the time in Tampa, where Madam Joe ran a beer and cake shop that became popular with the soldiers. Even while on Terra Ceia, she spent a lot of time on the homestead. Her husband aided the U.S. Navy's boat-search parties during the 3rd Seminole War, 1855-1858 and served in Tennessee and Kentucky during his Confederate service. He died at Terra Ceia in 1871. Madam Joe sold part of the Terra Ceia plantation in 1873 and moved to Fogartyville, across the Manatee River, where she lived with her daughter Eliza (Mrs. William) Fogarty. In her old age she grew coffee from seed received from the Warner's of Palma Sola and sent four pounds of coffee to President Rutherford B. Hayes, for which she recieved a ten dollar gold piece. This was the first coffee grown in the continental United States.
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Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection