Tampa, A History of the City and the Tampa Bay Region of Florida, by Karl H. Grismer, edited by D. B. McKay, 1950.

Tampa and the Coming of the Railroad, 1853-1884, by Canter Brown, Jr,

Tampa, A History of the City and the Tampa Bay Region of Florida, by Karl H. Grismer, edited by D. B. McKay, 1950.

14 Tallahassee Floridian & Journal, March 14, 1857.

GRISMER: During the same year, 1858, Tampa suffered still another blow .  

. Soon they were fired up, and the engine whistles were blown. Tampa’s Sunland Tribune reported: "The echoes had hardly died away when from every street and alley, every doorway and window, and from the four winds came a mass of humanity to gaze at the monsters of the rails. It was an impromptu celebration such as Tampa had never seen before."33

1 Gary R. Mormino and Anthony P. Pizzo, Tampa: The Treasure City (Tulsa, OK, 1983), 77.

2 Jacksonville Florida Republican, May 5, 1853.

3 Karl H. Grismer, Tampa: A History of the City of Tampa and the Tampa Bay Region of Florida (St. Petersburg, FL, 1950), 119.

4 “Notes, 1849-1850," entry of March 1, 1849, Francis Collins Papers, Eugene C. Barker Texas History Center, The University of Texas at Austin.

5 Charleston (SC) Southern Christian Advocate, February 13, 1862.

6 Jacksonville Florida Republican, May 19, 1853.

7 Ibid., May 5, 26, July 21, 1853.

8 Edward F. Keuchel, A History of Columbia County, Florida (Tallahassee, 1981) 71-72; Julius J. Gordon, Biographical Census of Hillsborough County, Florida 1850 (Tampa, 1989), 328-29.

9 Jacksonville Florida Republican, October 27, December 8, 1853, March 15, 1855.

10 Mormino and Pizzo, Tampa, 46.

11 Laws of Florida (1854), 9-19.

12 Jacksonville Florida Republican, April 19, 1855.

13 James W. Covington, The Billy Bowlegs War, 1855-1858: The Final Stand of the Seminoles Against the Whites (Chuluota, FL, 1982), 1.

14 Tallahassee Floridian & Journal, March 14, 1857.

15 Grismer, Tampa, 128.

16 Tampa Florida Peninsular quoted in Tallahassee Floridian & Journal, July 3, 1858.

17 Ibid., November 27, 1858; Tampa Florida Peninsular, July 16, 1859.

18 Grismer, Tampa, 131-69, 178.

19 Vernon E. Peeples, "Charlotte Harbor Division of the Florida Southern Railroad," Florida Historical Quarterly 58 (January 1980), 291.

20 Canter Brown, Jr., "The International Ocean Telegraph," Florida Historical Quarterly 68 (October 1989) 151n.

21 Canter Brown Jr., Florida’s Peace River Frontier (Orlando, 1991), 256-57.

22 Tampa Florida Peninsular, June 24, July 8, 1871.

23 Jerrell H. Shofner, Nor Is It Over Yet: Florida in the Era of Reconstruction 1863-1877 (Gainesville, 1974), 251.

24 Brown, Florida’s Peace River Frontier, 257, 266-69.

25 James W. Covington, The Story of Southwestern Florida, 2 vols. (New York, 1957), 1, 171-72; Karl H. Grismer, The Story of Fort Myers: The History of the Land of the Caloosabatcbee and Southwest Florida (Fort Myers, 1949; facsimile ed., Fort Myers Beach, 1982), 103-07; Edward C. Williamson, Florida Politics in the Gilded Age 1877-1893 (Gainesville, 1976), 73-78.

26 Dudley S. Johnson, "Henry Bradley Plant and Florida," Florida Historical Quarterly 45 (October 1966), 118-23.

27 Grismer, Tampa, 171-72.

28 Johnson, "Henry Bradley Plant," 120, 122-23.

29 Grismer, Tampa, 172-73.

30 Ibid., 173.

31 George W. Pettengill, Jr., The Story of the Florida Railroads 1834-1903 (Boston, 1952), 76.

32 Tallahassee Weekly Floridian, July 30, 1885.

33 Tampa Sunland Tribune quoted in Grismer, Tampa, 174.

34 Brown, Florida’s Peace River Frontier, 275.

35 Johnson, "Henry Bradley Plant," 123.

36 Grismer, Tampa, 174; Kyle S. VanLandingham, "William Brinton Hooker 1800-1871," South Florida Pioneers 5 (July 1975), 6-12; Gary Mormino, "Tampa’s Social Center Once Was A Hotel," Tampa Tribune, August 26, 1990; Leland Hawes, "Cattle Owner Hooker Was A Civil, Military Leader," Tampa Tribune, August 26, 1990.

37 Grismer, Tampa, 174-75.

38 Mormino and Pizzo, Tampa, 78.

39 Grismer, Tampa, 175.

40 Tampa Sunland Tribune, April 6, 1878.