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History · Pinellas Park

Pinellas Park’s history is
mostly unwritten

The public archives hold only 2 old photos of Pinellas Park. The rest are in attics, shoeboxes and the historical society. Help start the collection.

2old images & papers
1need a date
Drive-in cinema, Route 19, 1979 · Wikimedia Commons

The story

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The city was founded by Philadelphia publisher F. A. Davis, who purchased 12,800 acres (52 km2) of Hamilton Disston's land around 1911. Davies used promotional brochures to lure northerners, especially Pennsylvanians, to the town, noting the pleasant climate in the winter and the agreeable agricultural conditions. The Florida Association, a corporation, set up model farms and offered a free lot in the city with the purchase of ten acres of nearby farm land. A two-story building called the Colony House was established to house prospective purchasers of the available farm plots. The primary crop that the founders intended to grow on the farms they established was sugar cane. By 1912, lots in the city were being sold separately. The City of Pinellas Park was formally incorporated on October 14, 1914.

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Timeline

built from the dates on the items below
1979Drive-in cinema, Route 19Commons
1980–1999Nothing yet. Family albums go here.
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1 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🗓️Date a photo1 archive item has no date+2 🔁Retake an old viewDrive-in cinema, Route 19, 1979: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10
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By decade

Pinellas Park, decade by decade

1970s1 item
Drive-in cinema, Route 19CommonsDrive-in cinema, Route 191979
1980s–
1990s
Nothing in the archives for these yearsWeddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.
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Date
unknown1 item
Sunshine Speedway, 4550 Ulmerton RoadLOCDate?Sunshine Speedway, 4550 Ulmerton Road
Today16 photos
St Petersburg high end EF2 damageCommonsSt Petersburg high end EF2 damage2020WB FL 686-688; Full-width Road Sign GantryCommonsWB FL 686-688; Full-width Road Sign Gantry2019Teen LoungeCommonsTeen Lounge2018Teen Lounge 2CommonsTeen Lounge 22018Florida National GuardCommonsFlorida National Guard2018Park Station interiorCommonsPark Station interior2016CSX Clearwater SubdivisionCommonsCSX Clearwater Subdivision2016U.S. Army Spc. Cori Noble, a medic assigned to the 4224th U.S. Army Hospital, poses for a photo in Pinellas Park, Fla.,…CommonsU.S. Army Spc. Cori Noble, a medic assigned to the 4224th U…2013Silver LiningsCommonsSilver Linings2013U.S. Soldiers with the Army Reserve Medical Command stand in formation at the C.W. Bill Young Armed Forces Reserve Cent…CommonsU.S. Soldiers with the Army Reserve Medical Command stand i…2012PPKoreanWarMemorialCommonsPPKoreanWarMemorial2006PPKoreanWarMemorial (cropped)CommonsPPKoreanWarMemorial (cropped)2006WoodsideHospiceCommonsWoodsideHospice2005FLMap-doton-PinellasParkCommonsFLMap-doton-PinellasPark2004FL-PCR 694 @ Southbound FL 693CommonsFL-PCR 694 @ Southbound FL 6932003FL 686-688 Multiplex; West EndCommonsFL 686-688 Multiplex; West End2003
National Register of Historic Places

Nothing in Pinellas Park is on the National Register yet

That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Pinellas Park has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Peninsular Fruit Company Building in St. Petersburg, 4.3 miles away.

Pinellas Park and the nearest listed places

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Peninsular Fruit Company BuildingBay Pines Veterans Administration Home and Hospital Historic DistrictCasa De Muchas FloresMaurice and Thelma Rothman HouseCasa Coe da SolKenwood Historic District

Closest to Pinellas Park

Peninsular Fruit Company BuildingSt. Petersburg · Building4.3miBay Pines Veterans Administration Home and Hospital Historic DistrictBay Pines · District5.4miCasa De Muchas FloresSt. Petersburg · Building5.7miMaurice and Thelma Rothman HouseSt. Petersburg · Building5.8miCasa Coe da SolSt. Petersburg · Building6mi

How a place gets listed

1Talk to the stateEvery nomination goes through the State Historic Preservation Office. Owners, towns and historical societies can start one.
2Try a local or state list firstMany states keep their own register with a shorter form, a common first step for old barns, halls and schoolhouses.
3Write it upA nomination covers the history, photos and a map. Peninsular Fruit Company Building’s page links to a real one.
Know an old place in Pinellas Park?A mill, a schoolhouse, a cellar hole, a church: add a photo of it to Pinellas Park’s story, or a memory of it.
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National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places · photos from Wikimedia Commons

Then & now

No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Drive-in cinema, Route 19 (1979) and it appears here side by side.

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Stories next door

nearby towns’ history
📜 Kenneth City📜 Seminole📜 Largo📜 Madeira Beach

From Wikimedia Commons (17) and the Library of Congress (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.

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