St. Petersburg, Florida's BAYART MAGAZINE  by Bill Watts
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That's NEWS to me...by Bill Watts

 (or) As we used to say in the Times composing room: all the news that fits, we print.

Pioneer Park opens in time for MLK day parade

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  The city has done a wonderful job of refurbishing the downtown park.

Pioneers are listed A to Z

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Abercrombie to Dent

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Dent  to Lang

Someone here a relative?

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Lang to Ridgely

List from Grismer book

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Riley to Young

Oldest cemetery in city is Auburn Street Mound

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  Auburn street is nestled between 18th Avenue and 22nd Avenue south and 26th and 27th street. There lies a prehistoric mound that the earliest residents of this area used as a cemetery. 

For sale signs gone at house where alligator farm lived

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  This writer wonders the outcome for a little known jewel of a house that remains from days gone by.

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Oldest business in St. Petersburg is Neeld Gordon

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  R.E.Neeld is mentioned in the Bethell book and is listed on one of the plaques at pioneer park as a pioneer resident.

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