A history of Venice,
then and now
Postcards, papers and photographs of Venice from public archives, woven together by decade. Neighbors fill in the gaps.
The story
from WikipediaRead it all ↗The area that is now Venice was originally the home of Paleo-Indians, with evidence of their presence dating back to 8200 BCE. As thousands of years passed, and the climate changed and some of the Pleistocene animals that the Indians hunted became extinct, the descendants of the Paleo-Indians found new ways to create stone and bone weapons to cope with their changing environment. These descendants became known as the Archaic peoples. Evidence of their camps along with stone tools were discovered in parts of Venice. Over several millennia the culture and people who lived in the area changed. The peoples who the Spanish encountered when they arrived in 1500s were mound-builders. Venice lay in a boundary area between two cultures, the Tocobaga and the Calusa, and thus evidence of each can be found in the area.
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Timeline
built from the dates on the items belowFinish Venice’s story
Most archives stop around 1920. The photos from after that are in family albums, not libraries.
2 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 🔁Retake an old viewWarm Sulphur swimming pool, Flori…, 1900: stand where they stood+15 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people from Venice
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Venice, decade by decade
1990s
13 historic places in Venice
Venice has 13 listings on the National Register, and they protect 805 historic buildings, because John Nolen Plan of Venice Historic District alone counts 683.
Where they are
When they were listed
Then & now
No then-and-now pairs yet. Take a photo from the same spot as Warm Sulphur swimming pool, Florida, Medical Center (1900) and it appears here side by side.
🔁 Retake this view · +15Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (1) and the Library of Congress (5). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.