Discover the History of Tampa’s Carrollwood

Local author shares the story of the community using stunning, historic images
 
Nov. 18, 2013 - PRLog -- A new addition to Arcadia Publishing’s Images of America series is Tampa’s Carrollwoodfrom author Joshua McMorrow-Hernandez with a foreword by Lois Abbott Yost. The book boasts more than 200 images chronicling this Tampa community.

The story of the Carrollwood area stretches back to the 1890s, when Rev. Isaac Ward Bearss led a small caravan from Missouri to Florida and helped form a closely knit rural community between Lake Carroll and Lake Magdalene. Over the next six decades, citrus groves and cattle ranches flourished on those fertile soils—and so, too, did the vision of a young developer named Matt Jetton.

In the late 1950s, Jetton bought more than 300 acres of land surrounding Lake Carroll and built the 925-home community known as Carrollwood. By the 1970s, many of the remaining citrus groves in the areas surrounding the neighborhood gave way to new homes and businesses and the Carrollwood name continued spreading north and west.

Highlights of Tampa’s Carrollwood include:

•Images date as far back as 1894 and span through the 1980s, showing nearly a century of the community’s growth.
•Features many popular landmarks such as Turner Dairy, Mission Bell Square, Hudson Nursery, Lake Ellen Beach, Alessi Farmer’s Market and Hamner Fire Tower.
•Showcases the pioneer families, including the Bearss and Stall families.
•Photographs of the “Original Carrollwood” Showing Lake Carroll when it was surrounded by citrus trees and weekend-getaway cottages.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at (888)-313-2665 or online.

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