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Ruskin Buildings: Cypress Creek Elementary 5th Grade Project.
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This 76 page school project was created by Mark Dunn's 5th Grade Class at Cypress Creek Elementary School. It's importance is that the project details many of the historical buildings, and people, who helped Ruskin grow. There is a history written for each buidling along with photographs and crude, but interesting, architectural drawings illustrating many of the styles that made Ruskin the town it is.
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HCC0101RUS322
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Ruskin By The Bay - 1993.
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1993 Marketing brochure created by the Chamber of Commerce for public distribution. Contains short history of Ruskin along with multiple photographs and descriptions of the culture and economy of late century Ruskin.
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HCC0101RUS204
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Ruskin Commongood Society.
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English Class Project report on Commongood Society.
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HCC0101RUS017
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Ruskin Day 1914 Notice.
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Copy of newspaper ad, likely from Ruskin's local paper, of a community celebration of Ruskin's 5th Anniversary on June 12, 1914. Note a couple of things about this ad. It names the college as Ruskin Institute. Few references show this name. Note also that the anniversary is for the "First allotment." This likely refers to the first allotment of lands offered for public sale in Ruskin. Lands would have been sold by the Ruskin Commongood which allotted lands in 3 distinct phases in the first...
Show moreCopy of newspaper ad, likely from Ruskin's local paper, of a community celebration of Ruskin's 5th Anniversary on June 12, 1914. Note a couple of things about this ad. It names the college as Ruskin Institute. Few references show this name. Note also that the anniversary is for the "First allotment." This likely refers to the first allotment of lands offered for public sale in Ruskin. Lands would have been sold by the Ruskin Commongood which allotted lands in 3 distinct phases in the first years. Item was discovered in writings of Joni Maschek
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1914
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HCC0101RUS402
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Ruskin Directory 1966.
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This 1966 Directory was published by the Ruskin Junior Woman's Club biennially. It is a very useful directory on businesses, churches, professionals who did business in the Ruskin area.
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HCC0101RUS369
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Ruskin News and Commongood Charter.
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Partial page 1 of April 1910 edition (#2) and complete supplement of July 1910 (#3). Together, these two photocopies of the Ruskin News (the official newspaper of early Ruskin) will help the reader understand something of the disagreements that led early colonists to create a new Commongood Bylaws in 1910,replacing an earlier management, seemingly out of disagreement with the way that Manager A. B. Hawk was reporting to the Society. Much of the new by-laws are contained here as are the...
Show morePartial page 1 of April 1910 edition (#2) and complete supplement of July 1910 (#3). Together, these two photocopies of the Ruskin News (the official newspaper of early Ruskin) will help the reader understand something of the disagreements that led early colonists to create a new Commongood Bylaws in 1910,replacing an earlier management, seemingly out of disagreement with the way that Manager A. B. Hawk was reporting to the Society. Much of the new by-laws are contained here as are the election results approving the new by laws.
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HCC0101RUS440
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Ruskin's Marin Estates 1956.
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Marketing Brochure and map of Paul B. Dickman's Marin Estates. Created om the period of 1954-1956, Marin Estates was along reclaimed land along the Ruskin Inlet, dredged by Paul Dickman. Marin Estates featured modern, albeit small, water front homes in 4 original developments, shown on this map: Pelican Point, Campus Shores, Sandpiper Point, and Point Heron.
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HCC0101RUS235
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The Clubhouse: Perils of Pauline.
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Memories of managing the Woman's Clubhouse.
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HCC0101RUS121
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The Story of The Coffee Cup Restaurant.
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This collection of materials was compiled and authoried by Aleta Jonie Maschek. The Coffee Cup Restaurant, a Ruskin institution at the corner of today's US 41 and Shell Point Road (a vacant lot is all that remains on the SE corner), was originally owned and operated by Paul B. and Ester C. Dickman. Most of the material contained in the collection was published in the News Observer (the dates are not shown on the material.) Digitized with the permission of the News Observer. Illustrations by...
Show moreThis collection of materials was compiled and authoried by Aleta Jonie Maschek. The Coffee Cup Restaurant, a Ruskin institution at the corner of today's US 41 and Shell Point Road (a vacant lot is all that remains on the SE corner), was originally owned and operated by Paul B. and Ester C. Dickman. Most of the material contained in the collection was published in the News Observer (the dates are not shown on the material.) Digitized with the permission of the News Observer. Illustrations by Everett W. Michaels, Ruskin artist.
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HCC0101RUS147
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Title Abstract for Ruskin Electrical lines 1926-28.
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This title abstract, while for running of electrical lines in Ruskin, is significant for a couple of reasons. In the first document, RELEASE OF RESERVATIONS, The Ruskin Commongood Society grants permission to run electric lines provided that no "manufacturing, banking, or mercantile business shall be conducted on lands with out specific Commongood Permission. It also shows that Adaline Dickman was president of the Society in 1926. Of even more importance is the third document, ORDINANCE by...
Show moreThis title abstract, while for running of electrical lines in Ruskin, is significant for a couple of reasons. In the first document, RELEASE OF RESERVATIONS, The Ruskin Commongood Society grants permission to run electric lines provided that no "manufacturing, banking, or mercantile business shall be conducted on lands with out specific Commongood Permission. It also shows that Adaline Dickman was president of the Society in 1926. Of even more importance is the third document, ORDINANCE by the Town of Ruskin. Little is know of the incorporation of Ruskin in the late 1920s, but this document attests to the fact that at some point,Ruskin was incorporated as a town in Hillsborough County. See page entitled DEED BOOK 806 Page 278. where, at the bottom, the resolution was "passed by the City Council of the Town of Ruskin, Florida in regular sessions assembled and signed by J. B. Thornton President of the City Council of the Town of Ruskin, Attested by the City Clerk, Cora Jones, and by Edward P. Buckland, Mayor of the Town of Ruskin Florida.
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HCC0101RUS408
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Voices in the Wind Program.
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Voices in the Wind was an outdoor drama depicting Florida History. It was produced by the Florida Outdoor Drama Association with local support provided by the Ruskin Chamber of Commerce and the Ruskin Woman's Club. The outdoor drama attracted large crowds in the 1950s. This program is for the special Governor's Night on February 6, 1956. The theater was named the Suncoast Theater.
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HCC0101RUS324
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