Memoir of Clarence Harding on the recovery of the Little Manatee River community following a 1940 hurricane.

Clarence Harding born in Brandon in January 1898, died in Manatee County in September 1974. Harding was a well known journalist, writing for both the local Observer News and the Bradenton Herald. His weekly column , "Hook, Line and Sinker" was widely read in the 50s, 60s, and 70s. An inveterate fisherman, he was thoroughly versed with life around the Little Manatee River and often wrote of the history of the area. Harding acknowledge that his memoirs were largely from personal memories as well as long one-on-one discussions with Paul B. Dickman. Taken as a whole, these articles, on life in south Hillsborough County, are some of the few sources on the everyday people of the region around Ruskin and the Little Manatee River

Obituary written by author upon the passing of Leonard Wheeler. Likely prepared for inclusion in News Observer

Report by D.B. Dunn on examination of the Alafia River.

Mrs. Moody with her small daughter Mary stand in front of the house.

This is earliest known picture of the "new" Riverview Bridge that connected the Tampa Road with Peru. Constructed in 1900-1902 using sections of the old Lafayette Street Bridge in Tampa, which was torn down in the late 1880s or early 1890s. The Tampa Road ended at the south end of the bridge at Riverview where a sandy, difficult to traverse road continued south towards Parrish.