Largo Area Historical Society-Working to Preserve Largo's Past for Future Generations

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The Society’s newsletter is published quarterly and is filled to the brim with news about what’s happening in the Largo area of interest to historians. In addition, articles are written by many contributing authors about pioneer families, historical places of interest, and exciting events of the past. Tucked inside The Wise Cracker there are also plenty of photos and information about Society events, articles relating to the Society’s preservation and museum projects, as well as some good old-fashioned “cracker” recipes submitted by members of the Society.

THE WISE CRACKER
Largo Area Historical Society News

Hotel Largo
F.M. Campbell, Proprietor

“In June of this year, the City of Largo bought the Hotel Largo located at Railroad Avenue between West Bay Drive and First Avenue SW and has plans to develop the site… Built in 1908, this was Largo’s first hotel and was located immediately opposite the railroad station.
It was joined a year later by the Pinellas Hotel (now known as the Johnson building) a block south; the following year, 1910, brought the 3-story Taylor building. These three structures formed the nucleus of downtown development.

Also in 1910, Francis Marion Campbell, who had built and was proprietor of the Hotel Largo, built a new rusticated block feed store north of the railroad station on Bay Drive (then called Church Street)… The restored 1910 Feed Store now sits in Largo Central Park and is the home of the Largo Area Historical Society...”

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