Angel karry

31/07/2025

join our new state group 👉🏻 I grew up in Louisiana

31/07/2025

20/07/2025

This morning felt like I was walking back in time...
Old Florida living....
I just wish Florida could stay this beautiful!!
❤️❤️
Have a wonderful rest of your day...

Plant City . Join 👉🏻 Florida History

20/07/2025

Sunday Night Camp.
Ocklawaha River.
1870s. Join our little home👉🏻 Florida History

20/07/2025

Lucreaty J. Clark was born in 1904 in Lamont, Florida. She continued the craft of making white oak baskets, which she learned from her mother and father. Her parents originally made these sturdy baskets for use on the plantation where they lived and worked in north Florida, an area where white oaks are plentiful.
The baskets were used to hold cotton and carry vegetables. Before making baskets, Clark would select a tree of the right size and, once cut down, would split the logs into thin strips or "splits." White oak splits are naturally pliable and do not require soaking to make them softer, as do other woods. Clark would weave a basket from the bottom up, without a formal plan or measurements, finishing with the rim. Clark died in 1986, but the family tradition of white oak basket making was carried on by her grandson, Alphonso Jennings. This image from the Florida Folklife Archive records this unique folk art form of the southeastern United States.
Library of Congress:
- United States of America--Florida--Lamont 1980
- African American women Basket makers Basket making
- Clark, Lucreaty J., 1904-1986
- Hand weaving Handicraft
Join our little home 👉🏻 Florida History
Credit to the Respective Owner

20/07/2025

Not all of these attractions are still available to visit, but some are. It’s so cool that some have been major attractions for so many years! This is an old map from the 50’s!
Join our new state group👉🏻 Florida History

18/07/2025

1910. Florida. Alligator eggs.

This man is Warren Frazier, better known as "Alligator Joe.”

UPDATE: Found this info: “The practice of alligator farming/ranching dates back to the early 1890's when the first commercial alligator farm opened in Florida. Alligator farmers take captive bred or wild collected alligator eggs and hatchlings and grow them out in optimal conditions. In about 2 years they attain a marketable size (approx. 4ft in length) and can be harvested for their meat and hide.

Florida Memory photo

18/07/2025

11.25 ft rattlesnake in 1919. Found while hog hunting in West Palm Beach. My Memaw has several of these clippings in her things. It must have been big news so I am sure it has been shared before but still cool to see again.

18/07/2025

This 7,000-year-old pond in Florida revealed human remains older than the Egyptian pyramids. Even soft brain tissue was recovered.
In 1982, a backhoe operator named Steve Vanderjagt was clearing land for a new neighborhood in Titusville, Florida, when he uncovered a human skull.

The land was being developed by Jim Swann, who could have ignored the find and continued building, but instead, he stopped work and called in experts to investigate.

A young archaeologist named Dr. Glen Doran from Florida State University examined the bones and thought they were Native American and maybe 1,000 years old.

But after testing them, scientists were shocked to find the remains were between 7,000 and 8,000 years old—older than King Tut and the Egyptian pyramids.

It took two years to raise money for a full excavation, and between 1984 and 1986, archaeologists dug at the site. They found nearly 200 well-preserved burials.

Most of the bodies were placed in a special fetal position on their left side, facing a certain direction, and wrapped in what might be the oldest woven cloth ever discovered. The bodies were weighted down underwater using wooden tripods, creating a kind of pond cemetery.

Because the pond had just the right conditions, the bodies were amazingly well preserved—even brain matter was still in 91 of the skulls.

One woman’s stomach still had traces of fish and berries, showing what she had eaten before she died. DNA testing showed the site was used by the same families for more than 100 years.

The discoveries also revealed that these ancient people cared for the sick and injured, showing they had compassion.

They used bottle gourds as containers before pottery existed, and they hunted with a tool called an atlatl, which helped them throw spears farther and more accurately.

Life was hard back then—many buried were children, and the oldest adults were around 60 years old. Although we don't know their religious beliefs, the careful burials suggest they belie

18/07/2025

UPDATE - I finally cooked the pizza. It was not as good as fresh. But, BOY!!! Did it taste pretty darn good to me. I will definitely be getting another soon!

Look right here!!!
Just went to my local Winn Dixie grocery store way down here in south GA, and look what was here!!!!
It’s been a LONG time since I had one….