Plant City in Vintage Postcards

Plant City in Vintage Postcards

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Publication Date: 30th May 2005

Plant City is an ever-growing small community in Central Florida incorporated as a town in 1885. Now famous as the winter strawberry capital of the world, Plant City boasts three historic districts and five individual sites listed locally and on the National Register of Historic Sites. This volume includes more than 150 postcards from the collection of The Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center of the East Hillsborough Historical Society, relating the pictorial history of this town from generations past to present. Images of businesses, churches, people, and schools tell the story of Plant City... Read More
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Plant City is an ever-growing small community in Central Florida incorporated as a town in 1885. Now famous as the winter strawberry capital of the world, Plant City boasts three historic districts and five individual sites listed locally and on the National Register of Historic Sites. This volume includes more than 150 postcards from the collection of The Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center of the East Hillsborough Historical Society, relating the pictorial history of this town from generations past to present. Images of businesses, churches, people, and schools tell the story of Plant City... Read More
Description
Plant City is an ever-growing small community in Central Florida incorporated as a town in 1885. Now famous as the winter strawberry capital of the world, Plant City boasts three historic districts and five individual sites listed locally and on the National Register of Historic Sites. This volume includes more than 150 postcards from the collection of The Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center of the East Hillsborough Historical Society, relating the pictorial history of this town from generations past to present. Images of businesses, churches, people, and schools tell the story of Plant City's growth and development, while those of hotels, motels, cabins, and tourist homes showcase where residents and visitors stayed while enjoying Plant City.
Details
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Postcard History Series
  • Publication Date: 30th May 2005
  • State: Florida
  • Illustration Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9780738517780
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
Author Bio
The Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center is the genealogy and family history library of The East Hillsborough Historical Society, a nonprofit organization formed in 1974. Located in the historic 1914 Plant City High School, the society and its entities are dedicated to the preservation of the historical and cultural heritage of Plant City and eastern Hillsborough County.
Plant City is an ever-growing small community in Central Florida incorporated as a town in 1885. Now famous as the winter strawberry capital of the world, Plant City boasts three historic districts and five individual sites listed locally and on the National Register of Historic Sites. This volume includes more than 150 postcards from the collection of The Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center of the East Hillsborough Historical Society, relating the pictorial history of this town from generations past to present. Images of businesses, churches, people, and schools tell the story of Plant City's growth and development, while those of hotels, motels, cabins, and tourist homes showcase where residents and visitors stayed while enjoying Plant City.
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Postcard History Series
  • Publication Date: 30th May 2005
  • State: Florida
  • Illustrations Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9780738517780
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
The Quintilla Geer Bruton Archives Center is the genealogy and family history library of The East Hillsborough Historical Society, a nonprofit organization formed in 1974. Located in the historic 1914 Plant City High School, the society and its entities are dedicated to the preservation of the historical and cultural heritage of Plant City and eastern Hillsborough County.