Happy New Year! Oh, and you need a new calendar.
The Sulphur Springs Museum gets a jumpstart.
Friends of the River is a citizen support group concerned with promoting health and environmental policies that affect the quantity and quality of water in the Lower Hillsborough River and the Tampa Bay by actively promoting the development and implementation of natural resource management strategies which will improve and enhance the current and future health, [...]
Last year the Tampa Marketing Company elected to join a number of business groups and organizations. Many have been interesting and have provided us with access to a lot of information and we’ve gotten to meet some very nice and productive people. One of the groups we joined is the North Tampa Chamber [...]
St. Pete Times writer Sharon Tubbs found a new old neighborhood in Tampa. You might remember when I found out about a city or neighborhood named Rattlesnake in Tampa. Now we have a brand new Spring Hill in Tampa. Nope – not THAT Spring Hill. Spring Hill was near the old Sulphur Springs, and [...]
76 years ago… January 2, 1931 – Sheriff R.T. Joughin shoots and kills James Turner, a Chicago gangster who earlier in the day had orchestrated a daring escape from a county prison truck, in an open field northeast of Sulphur Springs. Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
80 years ago… December 8, 1926 – The Sulphur Springs Volunteer Fire Department purchases a new American – La France fire truck. The fire engine, which cost $12,500 ($132,000 in today’s dollars) was capable of pumping 750 gallons of water per minute. An adequate water supply was another issue, however, and the volunteer fire department had [...]
60 years ago… November 22, 1946 – A record opening-day crowd of more than 4,000 fans pour $88,000 ($903,640 in today’s dollars) through the betting windows of the Tampa Dog Track to set a new high mark for the first night of greyhound racing at Sulphur Springs. While the huge figure was not a record for [...]
50 years ago… November 7, 1956 – A full-grown male gorilla escapes from his cage in North Sulphur Springs and severely injures his handler before being shot to death by County Traffic Officer Lloyd Simmons. King Kong, a 230-pound gorilla known to be vicious, escaped from his cage and leaped upon Alva B. Dexter as he [...]
