Steve Rajtar

Unlike the movie ghost towns of the Old West, the ghost towns in Florida don’t have tumbleweeds rolling on deserted dirt roads, abandoned wooden sa...

Today, we're familiar with the major theme parks which charge families hundreds of dollars a day to wait in line for moments of thrills on technolo...

What began as a distribution center for shipping agricultural products around 150 years ago became a community noted in the twentieth century for i...

The settlements along Florida’s gulf coast that now comprise Sarasota County—including Venice, Osprey, Englewood, and Sarasota—started out with ec...

In the decades of the 1950s, 60s, and 70s, one could wander through the city of Tampa and experience a rich variety of architectural styles, busine...

Founded in 1906 in Gainesville as a consolidation of several smaller institutions focusing on agriculture, teacher training, and the military, the ...

Today, we are familiar with the large theme parks, which charge families hundreds of dollars a day to wait in line for moments of thrills on techno...

Founded in 1906 in Gainesville as a consolidation of several smaller institutions focusing on agriculture, teacher training, and the military, the ...