University of South Florida Scholar Commons Digital Collection - Florida Studies Center Digital Collection - Florida Studies Center Publications 11-1-1992 Sunland Tribune 18/01 Tampa Historical Society Follow this and additional works at: http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/flstud_pub Part of the American Studies Commons, and the Community-based Research Commons Scholar Commons Citation Tampa Historical Society, "Sunland Tribune 18/01" (1992). Digital Collection - Florida Studies Center Publications. Paper 2572. http://scholarcommons.usf.edu/flstud_pub/2572 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Digital Collection - Florida Studies Center at Scholar Commons. It has been accepted for inclusion in Digital Collection - Florida Studies Center Publications by an authorized administrator of Scholar Commons. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Table of Contents THE PRESIDENT’S REPORT By George B. Howell, III, President, Tampa Historical Society 1 A SURVEYOR’S LIFE: JOHN JACKSON IN SOUTH FLORIDA By Joe Knetsch 3 COLD WARRIORS IN THE HOT SUNSHINE: USF AND THE JOHNS COMMITTEE By James A. Schnur 9 “BINGO”: THE BATTLE CRY OF THE FLORIDA SEMINOLE By Teresa McKenzie Gooch 17 THE CAPT. JAMES D. GREEN, SOUTH FLORIDA UNIONIST SUNLAND By Spessard Stone 25 TRIBUNE CITY IN TURMOIL: TAMPA AND THE STRIKE OF 1910 By Joe Scaglione 29 Volume XVIII November, 1992 HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY SCHOOL DESEGREGATION BUSING Journal of the AND BLACK HIGH SCHOOLS IN TAMPA, FLORIDA TAMPA HISTORICAL SOCIETY April 1971 – September 1971 Tampa, Florida By Elinor Kimmel 37 KYLE S. VanLANDINGHAM DAVIA ISLANDS: THE BOOMING TWO MONTH TRANSFORMATION Editor OF TAMPA’S MUDFLATS INTO TAMPA’S DREAMSCAPE By Thomas H. Meyer 45 1992 Officers GEORGE B. HOWELL, III THE TAMPA FLORIDA BREWERY, INC. President FLORIDA’S FIRST BREWERY By Clifford C. (Kip) Sharpe 59 BARBARA G. REEVES Vice-President THREE FLORIDA GOVERNORS FROM TAMPA By Arsenio M. Sanchez 67 NANCY M. SKEMP Secretary A PROFILE OF SCHOOL DESEGREGATION IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY By Robert W. Saunders 73 A. FRANK SMITH THE OUTLAW LONG JOHN WHIDDEN Treasurer By Spessard Stone 80 J. EDGAR WALL, III THE INTER-SOCIAL LEAGUE: 1943 SEASON Executive Director By Wes Singletary 82 Board of Directors PAST PRESIDENTS OF THE TAMPA HISTORICAL SOCIETY 83 Ralph N. Beaver Rowena F. Brady PIONEERING ON THE LOWER ALAFIA AND THE EARLY Charles A. Brown SETTLEMENT OF PERU Mary J. Brown Norma Goolsby Frazier 85 Charles F. C. Jordan James S. Judy ORANGE GROVE HOTEL 93 James D. Marshall, Jr. Raymond G. Miller AN HISTORY OF BLACKS IN TAMPA/HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY Paul R. Pizzo FROM 1526 TO THE PRESENT Arsenio M. Sanchez By James E. Tokley 98 Lee W. Touchton Kyle VanLandingham POLITICS IN HILLSBOROUGH COUNTY: 1855 100 Jean Ann Cone THE END OF THE THIRD SEMINOLE WAR 101 Headquarters 245 S. Hyde Park Avenue 1992 D. B. McKAY AWARD WINNER: JULIUS JEFFERSON GORDON 102 Tampa, FL 33606 Phone (813) 259-1111 MEET THE AUTHORS 103 1992 SUNLAND TRIBUNE PATRONS 105 TAMPA HISTORICAL SOCIETY MEMBERSHIP ROSTER – October 14, 1992 106 Cover photo. Replicas of the Nina, Pinta, and Santa Maria visited Tampa in the spring of 1992 to commemorate the 500th anniversary of Columbus’ first voyage to the New World. Photo courtesy of Tampa Tribune The Sunland Tribune is the official annual publication of Tampa Historical Society, distributed to members each year. Non-members may receive limited edition issues by contacting the Society at 259-1111. Individuals interested in contributing manuscripts for consideration should send them to the headquarters no later than August 1 of each calender year. The Sunland Tribune Committee will review, accept or reject articles and will return all photographs and materials not selected for publication. All manuscripts should be no more than twelve double-spaced typed pages in length and should include footnotes, lists of sources as well as captions for all photographs submitted. The President's Report voyage. Hundreds passed through the doors of the Scarfone Gallery in July and were touched by the photographs and artifacts telling the story of Jewish history in Florida and Tampa. Over 300 members and their guests gathered one rainy evening in August at the University of Tampa to step back in time and enjoy films of Tampa in the 1920's. Citizens of Tampa and Hillsborough County were the beneficiaries of the City of Tampa's first Archives Awareness Week and seven days of historical programs documenting Tampa's rich history and cultural diversity. Most importantly, in an unprecedented show of support and recognition of an idea whose time has come, the City of Tampa and Hillsborough County have each budgeted $50,000 towards the establishment of a history museum for Tampa and Hillsborough County in 1993. In March of this year, we gained an GEORGE B. HOWELL, III important new asset and a new friend. J. President Edgar Wall, III ("Eddie") was hired jointly by the Society and the History Museum of If activity is a measure of success, then the Tampa/Hillsborough County, Inc. to serve Tampa Historical Society is about to as interim executive director of both conclude an exceptional year. Thanks to the organizations. Eddie has implemented well efforts of our membership chairman, Tony the policies, goals and objectives of the Pizzo, your board of directors, interim exec- board and delighted us with his enthusiasm utive director Eddie Wall and his executive and humor. assistant, Christine Lentz, we will bid farewell to 1992 with 125 new members Through the generosity of the Falk, which accounted for $6,600.00 in new Saunders and Jenkins Foundations, Jones revenues. Intercable Trust and the Junior League of Tampa, students in Hillsborough County I cannot recall a year in our community will learn more about local history in 1993. when the focus on local history has been Our most ambitious endeavor this year more significant. Many of us will not likely included raising $8,500 to produce three forget the sight of the ship Santa Maria and twenty minute videos on Tampa history. Dr. the two caravels sailing up Hillsborough Gary Mormino, our 1991 D.B. McKay Bay, and the festivities associated with the Award winner, prepared the script and pro- 500th Anniversary of Columbus' epic vided photographs for this remarkable film. Sufficient copies will be produced and delivered to each public school in Hillsborough County and will become a part of their curriculum. It has been a fulfilling and satisfying year for me in many respects -meeting new friends who have joined us, working with a dedicated board and executive director, and perhaps foremost seeing the community, public and private, come together and appreciate this wonderful community we live in today and the importance of preserving its past. R e s p e c t f u l l y y o u r s , G e o r g e B . A SURVEYOR'S LIFE: JOHN JACKSON IN SOUTH FLORIDA By JOE KNETSCH rable person deserves more recognition in the eyes of history. John Jackson was born in 1812 at Ballybag, County Monaghan, Ireland, the son of Hugh and Ann (Corcoran) Jackson. His early education appears, from the limited records, to have been obtained in the local schools of County Monaghan and rounded off, in the fashion of the day, in some form of apprenticeship to a local engineer.1 By 1841, with the economy of Ireland fairly depressed and the beginnings of famine already appearing, John Jackson and his younger brother, Thomas, immigrated to the United States. The Ireland he left was heavily populated and arable land was too expensive for anyone but an English Lord. JOHN JACKSON The population was so high that Benjamin Disraeli declared that the country was more John Jackson, pioneer surveyor, general densely populated, on its usable land, than store owner, mill owner and civic leader has China. Even some of the census takers of had comparatively little attention paid to his Ireland thought that the numbers used by the remarkable career. Few pioneers can claim official record (over eight million) were far that they laid out the boundaries of a major too low. Unemployment was widespread metropolis, avoided Indian attacks in the and the specter of people living in caves and wilds of the Everglades, owned and operated sod-huts surely influenced many to leave the a general store and mill and took part in Emerald Isle.2 The Jackson brothers soon many civic affairs culminating in a term as found themselves in the bustling port city of mayor of the city whose boundary he helped New Orleans and John made his living as to establish. Many of the early citizens of the assistant city engineer. It was during this Tampa owed their property descriptions to period that John Jackson met Simon this Irish immigrant and engineer. In a long Turman. Turman, who was then heading a and distinguished career as a professional group of "colonists" migrating to Florida, surveyor and civil engineer, he often persuaded Jackson to join the group and take defended his work and advised others until an opportunity to receive 160 acres of free well into advanced age and long after he had land, offered to settlers under the Armed retired as an active surveyor. Such a memo- Occupation Act of 1842. To the young Irish engineer, 160 acres of free land seemed too good to be true, given his background. fraudulent surveying in the Manatee region, Jackson readily accepted the offer and came lasted until the latter's death in 1847. But, to Tampa Bay in early 1843.3 another relationship grew directly out of the circumstances into which Rcid had enticed The Armed Occupation Act of 1842, Jackson. Because the Surveyor General's authorized an individual to stake a claim on office was located in St.