File:Owen Burns 83d40m Sarasota Florida.jpg
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edit of a historic photograph dated approximately 1915 of Owen Burns in front of his home in Sarasota, Florida, he once was the largest landholder in Sarasota, purchasing seventy-five percent of the town from Hamilton Gillespie including all of Lido Beach, he became a prime developer and builder as well as founding a bank and a real estate company; he dredged the bay and created new and enlarged keys among the natural barrier islands; among other structures, he built causeways and bridges, seawalls, Cà d'Zan, the El Vernona Hotel, the Times Building, the Herald Square Building, Burns Court, many residences, and got Main Street paved in order to advance the community -- this photograph is from the Lillian Burns Collection among the county archives at the Sarasota County History Center, Lillian G. Burns was his daughter and eventually became the most respected historian of the community when she returned to Sarasota upon her retirement -- this is a Florida public document |
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Cropped from image in the Lillian Burns Collection, Sarasota County History Center |
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c. 1915 |
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