We are back on board after a quick trip to Panama City. We got all our paperwork done and that makes us happy! It was so strange to be driving a car again, when you are on sailboat and 40 miles a day is a long way, it feels weird to go so fast and do so many miles in one day. We left Fort Pierce at 10am and we were in Panama City by 6pm that same day! Whew! On the fast track again!
When you sail and travel by boat you have to stop and smell the roses along the way, that is just the way it is!
We stayed with my sister Tania and her husband Bob and we had a wonderful time! It was so good to see everyone again and they were the best hosts to us! Thanks Again!
I gotta say it was good to be back, nothing like coming home to your familiar stuff! We are going to head out as soon as the the weather and the wind give us the thumbs up.
The weather here has been very windy and cold, overcast and grey! Yuck!
Fort Pierce was named after Lt. Col. Benjamin K. Pierce, President Franklin Pierce's brother, who established a U.S. Army fort here during the second Seminole War in 1838. But it would take more than 60 years for the area to become officially the City of Fort Pierce.
The original inhabitants of the area were the Ais people. Beginning in the 16th century the whole area of east Florida was known as "Los Musquitos." In 1828, Mosquito County was formed, and soon afterwards, the passage of the Armed Occupation Act, encouraged Florida settlers to locate south of Ormond Beach and Ocala. A group of people including William F. Russell, Ossian B. Hart, John Barker, Mills O. Burnham, and John Heermans settled the area and named the settlement Susanna. Mosquito County was later divided into Orange and St. Lucia County. However St. Lucia County would only exist between the years of 1844, and 1855, when the entire county was renamed Brevard. The present day county of St. Lucie would be re-established in 1905.
On Dec. 29, 1900, a notice was posted calling all registered voters to assemble at Davis Hall, Fort Pierce, Brevard County, Florida, on February 2, A.D. 1901, for the purpose of organizing a municipal government. On that date, 54 of the 66 voters who resided in the proposed village voted to incorporate. They elected A.C. Dittmar as mayor, appointed D.L. Alderman, A.Y.W. Hogg, P.P. Cobb, L.L. Carlton and F.M. Tyler as the City's five aldermen. H.I. Klopp was elected as city clerk and D.S. Carlton as marshal. Those 66 residents have now grown to more than 40,000.
The original inhabitants of the area were the Ais people. Beginning in the 16th century the whole area of east Florida was known as "Los Musquitos." In 1828, Mosquito County was formed, and soon afterwards, the passage of the Armed Occupation Act, encouraged Florida settlers to locate south of Ormond Beach and Ocala. A group of people including William F. Russell, Ossian B. Hart, John Barker, Mills O. Burnham, and John Heermans settled the area and named the settlement Susanna. Mosquito County was later divided into Orange and St. Lucia County. However St. Lucia County would only exist between the years of 1844, and 1855, when the entire county was renamed Brevard. The present day county of St. Lucie would be re-established in 1905.
Fort Pierce was named after Lt. Col. Benjamin K. Pierce, President Franklin Pierce's brother, who established a U.S. Army fort here during the second Seminole War in 1838. But it would take more than 60 years for the area to become officially the City of Fort Pierce.
On Dec. 29, 1900, a notice was posted calling all registered voters to assemble at Davis Hall, Fort Pierce, Brevard County, Florida, on February 2, A.D. 1901, for the purpose of organizing a municipal government. On that date, 54 of the 66 voters who resided in the proposed village voted to incorporate. They elected A.C. Dittmar as mayor, appointed D.L. Alderman, A.Y.W. Hogg, P.P. Cobb, L.L. Carlton and F.M. Tyler as the City's five aldermen. H.I. Klopp was elected as city clerk and D.S. Carlton as marshal. Those 66 residents have now grown to more than 40,000.
Fort Pierce was awarded the 2005 City of Excellence Award by the Florida League of Cities for overall excellence in city government and in 2011, Main Street Fort Pierce, Inc. received the Great
American Main Street Award from the National Trust for Historic Preservation in downtown.
| Painting on a Downtown building |
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