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Items relating to Apollo Beach not otherwise classified. Includes materials used in the marketing of Apollo Beach.
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Apollo Beach - Miscellaneous
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Waterfront: Apollo Beach, FL
Type: Still Image
Member of: Apollo Beach - Miscellaneous
Description: This booklet, created by Frandorson Properties was used to market the Apollo Beach subdivision. Frandorson Properties was created as a Michigan corporation in 1965, so it is likely that this brochure was created after 1965. It was in 1965 that Francis Corr reacquired Apollo Beach following a a protracted foreclosure proceeding against Flora Sun Corporation of Miami.
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1961 Apollo Beach is not for everyone
Type: Still Image
Year: 1960, 1960
Member of: Apollo Beach - Miscellaneous
Description: Marketing brochure for Apollo Beach created by Flora Sun with Wilbur E. Jones, from Miami, as President. Flora Sun acquired Apollo Beach from Francis J. Corr in 1960, (with Paul Dickman also holding a mortgage on the property.) Flora Sun quickly became embroiled in a financial scandal and could not meet its obligations. After a protracted bankruptcy and foreclosure action, the property was… more
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Apollo Beach Subdivision Plat Maps: 1958-1959
Type: Still Image
Member of: Apollo Beach - Miscellaneous
Description: Initial Subdivision Plans for first three sections of Apollo Beach from developer Francis Corr. Filed in 1958 and 1959. These sections of are bound by the Flamingo Canal on the north, and Miller Mac Road on the south with the land coming to a point at US 41. This is generally known as the "F Streets" plan, as most of the street names begin with the letter F. more
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Flora Sun Architectural Drawing of Planned Apollo Beach
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Member of: Apollo Beach - Miscellaneous
Description: Flora Sun bought Apollo Beach from the Corr Family when they could not complete the initial development. This drawing was an architectural drawing of Flora Sun's overall plan for the community. Very little of this was built by Flora Sun. Their project went bankrupt in a widely publicized banking crisis in the 1960s along with some illegal financing activity. The property eventually… more
Apollo Beach Subdivision Plan Unit 4 - 1975
Type: Still Image
Year: 1974, 1974, 1975, 1975
Member of: Apollo Beach - Miscellaneous, Apollo Beach Subdivision Plat Maps: 1958-1959
Description: After Francis Corr's initial subdivision offerings in 1958/59, he suffered ill health and sold his interests in Apollo Beach to a Miami developer. That developer, involved in several questionable land schemes, did not ever tender any payment for the sale and after a long and complex series of court proceedings, including the firms bankruptcy, the Corr interests regained the land. The land… more
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Ruskin Tomato Farms - Subdivision Plat
Type: Still Image
Year: 1940, 1940
Member of: Apollo Beach - Miscellaneous
Description: Subdivision Plat filed by Paul B. Dickman in June, 1940 on land that would ultimately become Apollo Beach. Filed in Hillsborough County Property Records. Subdivision Plat Book, Number 27, Page 110. Of special note, Clay Gulley Road is today's Miller Mac Road in Apollo Beach. more
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