Florida Frontiers TV - The Edison and Ford Winter Estates

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The Edison and Ford Winter Estates. Inventor and entrepreneur Thomas Edison first came to Florida in 1885, where he built a winter residence and laboratory. In 1916, Edison’s friend and collaborator, automobile manufacturer Henry Ford, bought his own Fort Myers estate, right next door to Edison’s.

 

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Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 57 – The Edison and Ford Winter Estates
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Florida Frontiers TV - Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture in Florida

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Frank Lloyd Wright is known as one of the most influential architects of the 20th century. Wright wanted to create a uniquely American style of architecture that broke away from European models, and create geometrically interesting, organic structure that blended into the natural landscape. His largest single collection of building in one location is at Florida Southern College in Lakeland. Wright’s only private residence constructed in Florida is Spring House in Tallahassee.

 

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Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 56 – Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture in Florida
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Florida Frontiers TV - Leon and Jewel Collins Museum of African American History & Culture

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The Leon and Jewel Collins Museum of African American History and Culture in Cocoa includes exhibits about Harry T. Moore who worked in the building, Zora Neale Hurston who lived nearby, and Original Highwayman Artist R.L. Lewis.

 

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Florida Frontiers TV – Ep. 53 - Leon & Jewel Collins Museum of African American History & Culture
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53

Florida Frontiers TV - 2022 Florida Historical Society Public History Forum

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The Florida Historical Society Public History Forum and the Annual Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Society Conference were held together in Gainesville, in 2022.

 

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Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 52 – 2022 Florida Historical Society Public History Forum
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52

Florida Frontiers TV - Journalist Mabel Norris Reese

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Mabel Norris Reese. Courageous journalist Mabel Norris Reese covered the infamous Groveland Rape Trial and Ku Klux Klan activities in Lake County in the mid-20th century.

 

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Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 51 – Journalist Mabel Norris Reese
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Florida Frontiers TV - The John G. Riley House Museum

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The John G. Riley House. Built in Tallahassee in 1890, the John G. Riley House is now a museum of African American history.

 

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Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 50 – The John G. Riley House Museum
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Florida Frontiers TV - The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse

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Ponce Inlet Lighthouse. Completed in 1887, the Ponce Inlet Lighthouse is the tallest in Florida, and a National Historic Landmark.

 

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Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 49 – The Ponce Inlet Lighthouse
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Florida Frontiers TV - Mary McLeod Bethune Goes to Washington

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Mary McLeod Bethune was a larger-than-life educator and activist whose legacy is now remembered with an eleven-foot tall, 6,000-pound statue carved by Nilda Comas. She used the last piece of statuary marble taken from the same Italian quarry used by Renaissance artist Michelangelo. The statue will represent Florida in the US Capitol building.

 

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Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 48 – Mary McLeod Bethune Goes to Washington
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48

Florida Frontiers TV - The Shrimping Industry in Florida

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The Shrimping Industry in Florida: Commercial shrimping and shrimp boat building thrived in Florida from about 1900 through the 1980s.

 

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Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 47 – The Shrimping Industry in Florida
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Florida Frontiers TV - The Ximenez-Fatio House

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The Ximenez-Fatio House was built in 1798 in St. Augustine, during Florida's Second Spanish Period.

 

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Florida Frontiers TV – Episode 46 – The Ximenez-Fatio House
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