Palmetto historical marker University of South Florida Tampa Library still image eng Ernest Parrish and Mrs. Charles Fogarty look at a historical marker in Palmetto. The marker reads: "Palmetto (Continued from other side) The first shipping dock was built at the foot on Ninth Avenue by Joel Hendrix several years after he came here in 1871. The narrow-gauge Palmetto Terminal Railroad was built in 1895 to haul produce from farms northeast of town to the dock. When the locomotive broke down a flat car with canopy was pulled on the track by four horses. The town's first three stores stood just east of Ninth Avenue on Riverside Drive. The city was incorporated in June 1893. P.S. Harllee was the first mayor. Manatee County State Bank, the country's first, was established in 1899 at the northeast corner of this block in Palmetto's first brick building." Ernest Parrish and Mrs. Charles Fogarty look at a historical marker in Palmetto. The marker reads: "Palmetto (Continued from other side) The first shipping dock was built at the foot on Ninth Avenue by Joel Hendrix several years after he came here in 1871. The narrow-gauge Palmetto Terminal Railroad was built in 1895 to haul produce from farms northeast of town to the dock. When the locomotive broke down a flat car with canopy was pulled on the track by four horses. The town's first three stores stood just east of Ninth Avenue on Riverside Drive. The city was incorporated in June 1893. P.S. Harllee was the first mayor. Manatee County State Bank, the country's first, was established in 1899 at the northeast corner of this block in Palmetto's first brick building." Fogarty, Charles (Mrs.) Harllee, Peter S. Hendrix, Joel Manatee County State Bank Palmetto Terminal Railway Parrish, Ernest United States Florida--Manatee County--Palmetto Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection
Palmetto historical marker
University of South Florida Tampa Library
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Ernest Parrish and Mrs. Charles Fogarty look at a historical marker in Palmetto. The marker reads: "Palmetto (Continued from other side) The first shipping dock was built at the foot on Ninth Avenue by Joel Hendrix several years after he came here in 1871. The narrow-gauge Palmetto Terminal Railroad was built in 1895 to haul produce from farms northeast of town to the dock. When the locomotive broke down a flat car with canopy was pulled on the track by four horses. The town's first three stores stood just east of Ninth Avenue on Riverside Drive. The city was incorporated in June 1893. P.S. Harllee was the first mayor. Manatee County State Bank, the country's first, was established in 1899 at the northeast corner of this block in Palmetto's first brick building."
Ernest Parrish and Mrs. Charles Fogarty look at a historical marker in Palmetto. The marker reads: "Palmetto (Continued from other side) The first shipping dock was built at the foot on Ninth Avenue by Joel Hendrix several years after he came here in 1871. The narrow-gauge Palmetto Terminal Railroad was built in 1895 to haul produce from farms northeast of town to the dock. When the locomotive broke down a flat car with canopy was pulled on the track by four horses. The town's first three stores stood just east of Ninth Avenue on Riverside Drive. The city was incorporated in June 1893. P.S. Harllee was the first mayor. Manatee County State Bank, the country's first, was established in 1899 at the northeast corner of this block in Palmetto's first brick building."
Fogarty, Charles (Mrs.)
Harllee, Peter S.
Hendrix, Joel
Manatee County State Bank
Palmetto Terminal Railway
Parrish, Ernest
United States
Florida--Manatee County--Palmetto
Manatee County Public Library Historic Photograph Collection