On July 22, 2008, the Board of County Commissioners designated the Knowles House, a two-story, symmetrical Frame Vernacular-style house, as a historic Landmark. The circa 1915 Knowles House was constructed from local heart pine timber by Robert H. Knowles. This house is clad in clapboard siding and is topped by a pyramidal hipped roof. A hipped roof also covers the screened main entrance porch, which wraps around the . . . → Read More: Eastern Hillsborough County Post Office Towns
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Photo by Gregory Walden In 1992 the Hillsborough County Board of County Commissioners passed a Historic Preservation Ordinance, and in September of 1993 recognized and designated the County’s first historic Landmarks. Among the very first was the Moseley Homestead, affectionately called The Nest. It was designated for its adaptation to the Florida climate and as an outstanding Florida vernacular house surrounded by diverse vegetation. It is interesting to look . . . → Read More: From the Open Porch of The Nest Dr. George McAnelly Miller is credited with the founding of Ruskin, Florida. Miller, a follower of the English writer and social critic John Ruskin, had previously founded colleges in Missouri and Illinois based on the belief that a college education should be available to the masses. These colleges provided agricultural or industrial jobs for students to assist with tuition and board costs, but required that even those who . . . → Read More: Ruskin History Of the 28 Landmarked historic resources in unincorporated Hillsborough County, three are representative of African-American community history. These Landmarks were celebrated this April during the University of South Florida Institute on Black Life’s Spring Symposium. The Symposium is an annual event that honors local African-American life and history. The Beal-Holloman House and the Glover School are located in Bealsville, which is southeast of Plant City, just north of SR . . . → Read More: Hillsborough County African-American Landmarks Hillsborough County’s archaeological resources include prehistoric campsites, burial mounds, shell middens, quarries and manufacturing sites for tools, along with historic archaeological sites, such as Fort Foster. Scattered artifacts, usually tools or fragments of pottery, are the most common indicators of an archaeological site. Most of the identified archaeological resources in Hillsborough County date from the Archaic Period (7500-500 BC). The second most common type of identified archaeological resources in . . . → Read More: Hillsborough County Archaeological Resources |
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