Yellow Bluffs
N 27° 20.876 W 082° 32.828
17R E 346965 N 3025922
A Florida Historical Marker in the Sarasota County and city.
Waymark Code: WM2FEZ
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 10/25/2007
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This area, so named for its outcroppings of yellow limestone, was the home of Sarasota's first inhabitants-the pre-historic and Calusa Indians. Yellow Bluffs later became the homesite of William H. Whitaker, Sarasota's first known white settler. It was also the embarkation point of Judah P. Benjamin , member of the Confederate Cabinet, who fled America at the end of the War Between The States in 1865.
Marker Number: F-103
Date: 1963
County: Sarasota
Marker Type: Roadside
Sponsored or placed by: In Cooperation With Sarasota County Historical Commission and Sarasota County Historical Society
Website: [Web Link]
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