This 1940 map by Rand McNally shows that US 541 is today's US 41 and that US 41 originally was the name for today's US 301. It was not until the 1950s that US 541 was eliminated and US 41 was moved onto the former US 541 south of Tampa; US 301 ran along what had been US 41.

This map shows the western portions of South County below the Alafia River to about where today's Big Bend Road is today. Note the location of Gibsonton, Gardensville and Adamsville. It is also interesting to note that today's US 301 is label State Route 5 and US 41. Today's US 41 is labeled SR 23 and US 541. US 541 was commissioned in 1932, a few years after the US route system was established, and it existed for only about 20 years. US 541 essentially functioned as a long business loop off US 41; its south end was not far from Tampa, in Palmetto:

Giant's Fish camp, owned by Al and Jeanie Tomaini, stood just south of the Alafia River, on US 41 (west side). The restaurant and camp continued to operate until 1999, and closed after the death of Jeanie.

Photo of Fort Lonesome Grocery. Note man on horseback. Appears to be a political picture by a man named Dougherty seeking electoral support.

Fort Lonesome, originally referred to as Boogerman's Corner, is in the extreme southeast corner of Southern Hillsborough County.

Aerial View of Apollo Beach from 1957. This photo shows Apollo Beach in its earliest stages of development. In looking at this photo, the veiwer is looking west towards Tampa Bay. US 41 is the North South road at the bottom of the photo. Miller Mac Road (is at the southern end of the developed land and the Flamingo Canal bounds the north. Note the farmland to the south of the development, like parts of Dickman's vegetable farming empire. To the north was a combination of pasture for cattle grazing and farmed land. Also note some of the very earliest finger canals being dredged at the extreme western edge of the property, at the bay. Also note the build up of dredged land in the bay itself.

Photographic Portrait of A. P. Dickman. Undated, but likely around 1880.

Photographic portrait of A. P. and Rose Dickman, one of three founding Dickman families who came to Ruskin along with George McA. Miller.

Al Tomaini with unknown Carnival Worker.

Al (Aurelio) Tomaini (1912 - 1962) claimed a height of 8’4” and billed himself as ‘The Tallest Man in the World’. (His actual height was much shorter, at 7'4".) In 1936, at the Great Lakes Exposition, he met the woman who was to share his unique life, Berniece Evelyn Smith (1916 - 1999) who went by the stage name, Jeanie with twisted arms and without legs and billed as "The Living Half Girl." She ‘stood’ just over two feet in height and had been performing in exhibitions since the age of three and was known for her acrobatic dexterity and the nimble way she ran about on her mildly deformed hands. The couple eloped during a fair in Cleveland in 1936 and went to Niagara Falls for their honeymoon. Often billed as the "World's Strangest Married Couple", they settled in Gibsonton where they established a lodge and fishing camp known as ‘The Giant’s Camp’. Al served as the fire chef and president of the Chamber of Commerce. After Al's death, Jeanie continued to run Giant's Fish Camp and Restaurant until her death in 1999.