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01/10/2014

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Sarasota News Leader January 10, 2014 Page 62 H I S T O RY O F S I G N I F I C A N T S A R A S O TA N E I G H B O R H O O D S TO BE DISCUSSED ON JAN. 14 Sarasota officially became a real estate destination in 1885 when 60 people from Scotland, who had purchased land in this area from the Edinburgh-based Florida Mortgage and Investment Co., "arrived on an uncharacteristically chilly December day at what is now lower Main Street, excited to establish neighborhoods and a town," a Historical Society of Sarasota County (HSOSC) news release says. "They were soon disappointed with the mud road and wood huts they saw. Then it snowed," the release adds. Want to know what happened next? That will be the topic of the next Conversations at The Crocker program on Tuesday, Jan. 14, at the Crocker Memorial Church (1260 12th St. in Sarasota), "when a small group of gabby researchers talk to one another and to you Bob Plunket/Contributed photo about the development of significant neighborhoods in Sarasota," the release explains. from the street names to the famous people who lived in them. For instance, do you know The event is free to Historical Society mem- why there's an Ocean Boulevard on Siesta bers and $10 for the general public. The Key when the city isn't near any ocean? Turns program starts at 7 p.m. out the street was named after Capt. Louis The leader of this Conversation will be Roberts' wife, whose given name was Ocean Bob Plunket, who has been writing about Hansen." Sarasota's people and places for more than 30 years, the release points out. His articles appear regularly in Sarasota Magazine, as well as national publications such as Barron's. Plunket continues in the release, "Roberts was an early developer of Siesta Key and had a hotel on the island that he expanded from his house." "After owning eight different houses in Sarasota over the years," he says in the release, "I'm obsessed about all the amazing neighborhoods in Sarasota where you can own, rent and be foreclosed in. And the history of all of these neighborhoods is entirely fascinating, Joining Bob Plunket will be Clifford Smith, senior planner in historic preservation with the City of Sarasota; and Margi Baskerwille Nanny, who, with her former husband, Jerry King, developed Centergate. King was one of Sarasota's top real estate developers of the

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