Old Fort Lauderdale Village
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N 26° 07.138 W 080° 08.747
17R E 585403 N 2889139
This area was the first residential neighborhood of Ft. Lauderdale.
Waymark Code: WMG3C5
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 01/07/2013
Views: 19
Located with a cluster of other historical homes and markers, this two-sided marker has the identical message on either side and reads:
"OLD FORT LAUDERDALE
VILLAGE
Old Fort Lauderdale Village at the intersection of the New River and the Florida East Coast Railway (F.E.C.) incorporates four turn-of-the-20th century historic buildings. These include the 1905 New River Inn, the 1905 Philemon N. Bryan House, the 1905 Acetylene Building, and the 1907 King-Cromartie House. The New River Inn houses a Museum of History and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It was built for Philemon N. Bryan from hollow concrete block made on site. Bryan, a grove owner, storekeeper and former mayor of New Smyrna, was ruined by the great Florida freeze of 1894-95. F.E.C. owner Henry Flagler (1830-1913) asked Bryan to build the railway section from the New River to Pompano. In 1894, Philemon, with his two sons Tom and Reed, brought 400 African-American workers by boat from New Smyrna to build the roadbed. The first train to Miami reached Fort Lauderdale on February 22, 1896. Philemon and his sons acquired land on either side of the railway tracks in what later became downtown Fort Lauderdale. In 1905, Contractor Edwin T. King built the Inn, the Philemon Bryan House and the nearby Tom and Reed Bryan houses, thereby creating the first Fort Lauderdale residential neighborhood.
A FLORIDA HERITAGE SITE
THE FORT LAUDERDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY
AND THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE
F-404 2004"
Marker Number: F-404
Date: 2004
County: Broward
Marker Type: City
Sponsored or placed by: THE FORT LAUDERDALE HISTORICAL SOCIETY AND THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF STATE
Website: [Web Link]
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