Historical Timeline

Prehistory to 1848 - Early civilizations and the Spanish explorers

1849 to1885 - Frontier Life in Pinellas County, the Civil War and Reconstruction

1886 to1896 - The Orange Belt, Demens and the Era of the Railroads

1897 to 1906 - A New Kind of City is Born

1907 to 1918 - Early Adolescence

1919 to 1926 - The Boom: Hotels, Sunshine and Tourism as a "product"

1927 to 1940 - Surviving the Depression

1941 to 1945 - The Second World War and Its Legacies

1946 to 1959 - Post World War II Rebirth

1960 to 1977 - A City in Search of Itself

1978 to 2003 - A New Era of Prosperity

The Future?

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