Currency and Business Flourish

Between the 1940s and 1970s, The corridor along present day Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Way was filled with more than 100 businesses. In the early years, Monday was the busiest shopping day because seasonal and live-in domestic workers had the day off. Currency circulated many times throughout the community.

Jeffery Bolding

Jeffery bolding, formally enslaved in North Carolina came to the area in 1857 and worked for the Whitaker family. He died at age 70 in 1904.

Luis Fatio Pachecho Joins Major Dade’s expedition to Fort King

Luis Fatio Pachecho, escaped from enslavement near St. Augustine, works for the Pacheco trading post on Sarasota Bay. In 1835, he is taken to Fort Brooke (today’s Tampa) and joins Major Dade’s expedition to Fort King (today’s Ocala); the US military is ambushed, starting the Second Seminole War