This expanded special issue of the Stuart News features articles and photos focuses on the history of Martin County.
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Index of articles:
A. P. Bert Krueger Stuart's Mister Aviation Since 1917, Ray McClure: BB-6
A. R. Krueger, Nickname Dude Born in Berlin: F-2
Abe Lincoln's Camera Tells Story: CC-8
Ais Indians, A Vanished Tribe, Carol Schmidt: J-7
All Saints Episcopal Church a Landmark of Indian River Area: D-5
An Epic of Quakers, Seamen and Slaves Wrecked Here: 6-I
Ancient Florida Indian Culture Began 10,000 B. C., Ripley P. Bullen: I-6
Animal Rescue League Begins 9th Fund Drive: A-6
Ashley Gang Held Up Train, Robbed Banks, G-2
Band Played When Town of Stuart Born May 7, 1914: F-6
Battle of Okeechobee Fought on Christmas Day Along Lake Shore: DD-4
Before You Hunted Razorbacks You Had to Buy: C-3
Bert Babcock First Sheriff: A-2
Big Fish Always News in Stuart: F-2
Blue Berry Pete Got Fed Up and Head East: BB-1
Bootleggers Lived It Up But 'Busted" When Their Era of Lawlessness Ended: K-8
C. C. Chillingworth First Developer of Palm City Farms, Patsy McCord: K-3
Capt. Blakeslee Sailed the Mail Upriver in '94, C. D. Blakeslee: E-7
Capt. Bob Hoke, Capt. Thomas E. Richards Brought First Pineapples to Jensen Area: D-1
Captain John Miller Was a Famed Pioneer Boat Builder: D-6
Captain Sewall Born in Florida in 1848: G-6
Cecil Johns Has Happy Memories of Old Times: E-4
Charles H. Racey Family Was Among Early Settlers in 1890: D-5
Chas. Schuyler Was Official of Jensen's Bank: D-8
Children Ran Out of Food Till Father Sailed In, Lucie Richards LeTourneau: DD-8
Children Went to School on the Jungle Waterways, Bessie DuBois: J-1
Chronology of this Newspaper: H-1
Church at Indiantown Is Named for the Rev. E. M. C. Dunklin: DD-4
Cleveland Letters Show Friendship With Besseys: E-2
Colonel O. O. Poppleton Was Bee Culture Expert, J-7
Commercial Fishing's Peak was in Twenties: D-6
Commodore Stanley Kitching Was this Town's Grand Old Man: J-5
Confederate Secretary of War and Aide to President Davis Fled, Joe Crankshaw: C-5
Country Club, Fine Homes, Spruce Bluff, Land of Promise (Fultz): G-1
County Seat Was St. Augustine Back in 1821: E-7
County Was Born in Real Estate Boom: I-1
Crisis of the Big Depression :C-6
Curt Schroeder, at 21, Made Reality of His Dream, Curt Schroeder: F-7
Days of Paddle-Wheel Steamers Cruising, Bessie Dubois: D-7 & 8
Delights of Boyhood in Stuart Told, Ernest Lyons: F-4
Development of Medical Scene Sketched by Nurse, Marion Tschischeck: BB-4
Does Black Caesar's ghost Ship Cruise On St. Lucie?, Wallace Stevens: CC-2
E. J. Ricou Was Leading Figure Fishing Industry: C-1
Ed Hosford Was First Planter of Tropical Trees: C-7
Edward Mapp Arrived Here on Honeymood Back in 1912, Edward Mapp: CC-1
Elias Simmons Family Left Mail Steamer to Settle: E-6
Elliott Museum on Ocean Isle Is Signal Contribution: K-5
Explorer Cabot May Have Found Florida First: I-6
Exploring Everglades in 1897: G-6, 8
Fingy Conners, Stevedore Boss, Built Lake Highway: DD-7
First Bank President Carried on Trade with the Seminoles: F-1
First Beam Flashed from Historic Jupiter Light, Bessie DuBois: J-1
First Girl Who Is Still Living Tells of Past: F-2
First Pineapples Planted By Pioneer H. W. Bessey, Susan Bessey: E-1 x
First PTA Was formed in 1915: CC-5
First Recorded Auto Accident: F-7
First Showcase Trailer Driver Had a Lot of Trouble: CC-5
First Teacher In Stuart Was Miss Hamilton: E-5
First Wave Came by Sailboat in the 1880's: A-6
Five Elected Presidents of Historical Society Have Given: K-4
Flip of a Coin Brought the Fredericksen Family: D-5
Former Newspaper Owner Gives Account of 1923, Edwin A. Menninger: J-3
Forming of County Was Big Battle: I-1
Fort McRae at Port Mayaca, Old Gus Show: DD-4
Frances Langford's Design for Living: DD-2
Frank Curtis Munch Family Came Here from Carolina: D-1
Frank Prescott First Settler In This County, E-1
Fraziers Arrived at Mouth of Frazier Creek in 1887 Flora Frazier Dyer: E-5
Frederick William Willes an Arrival from England in '93: D-1
Freezes, Hard Times, Prosperity Marked the Pineapple Industry; Curt Schroeder: DD-1
George T. Gosling , George T. Gosling: E-7
Gilbert's Bar House of Refuge Built in 1876: I-4
Gilbert's Bar Named for Rogue, Don Pedro Gilbert: CC-4
Glenn Delivered a Telegram Minutes Before Jailer Died, Roscoe E. Glenn: C-1
Good Old Oar Power on Seaworthy Lifeboats Was Life Saving Rescue: K-3
Gospel Navy Brought McQuarries, Mattie Roberts: J-6
Harry A. Dyer Third Mayor of Town of Stuart: E-5
He Saw Loot from Mayan Temples (Fontenada): I-6
Herman's Bay Is Named for Escapee from Indians: D-5
High School Band formed in 1938: BB-4
Historical Gomez Grant Abstract Is A Record of Long Gone Centuries: C-7
Hubert Bessey A Gentlemanly Business Man: E-2
Indians Raided Spanish Forts and Missions Here: C-5
Indiantown Citrus Gold Rush Under Way Where Uncle Joe Bowers Traded: DD-7
Indiantown Story; from Pioneer Days to the Present, DeMarcellus & Knowlton: DD-6
J. B. McDonald First Mayor at Incorporation: F-6
Jensen Beach Was Pineapple Center of World in Early Period: D-3
John Clemison of Hobe Sound Carried Mail By a Wagon, Bessie DuBois: J-3
John L. Jensen the Founder of Jensen Beach: D-3
John Madsen, a Mighty Man of Early Stuart: F-6
Jupiter Island Town Steeped in History: J-1
Legion Post Was Formed On June 1, 1919: C-6
Living Florida Advertisement (John E. Taylor): F-2
Local Flowers Under Light Industry Heart of Mums: C-8
Many Distinguished Leaders in roster of Local History Group, W. G. Corliss: I-6
Martin County's Men Who go to Sea Are Rugged Individualist: BB-1
McPhersons Arrived Here in 1891: F-2
Miss Mary Shackelford Was Early Visitor Here in 1908: E-2
Morris Johns Homesteaded and Was an Early Pineapple Grower: E-4
Moses Frank Wamsley a Loyal Reporter, Edwin A. Menninger: I-3
Mrs. DuBois Writes About Area Post Offices, Bessie DuBois: J-8
Mrs. Haney Worked for Female Suffrage and the Souls of Men: J-7
Mrs. Johns Remembered Paddle Steamer Arrival: E-4
Mrs. Krueger First Saw St. Lucie in 1891, Annie Spiers Krueger: E-1
Mrs. Porter Recalls Events of Early Town; Was Club Head H-14
Murder in 1894 In "Pine" Field Stayed Unsolved: C-7
Music Box turned Into First Piano: K-1
Music Every Sunday Was Important Part of Life, Edna Coutant: K-1
Nature Cut Inlet Through Island Back in 1831: H-8
Neals Came to Open Store in Late 1890s: D-5
Night Adolf Hitler Hit Us With Torpedo from a Sub, Ernest Lyons: K-7
Outlaw Ashley and the Notorious Gang: G-8
Parks and John Families Settled in Early 1890s: E-4
Pineapple Center of World in Early Period: D-3
Pioneer Churches Met Spiritual Needs of Indian River Settlers: D-5
Pioneer Descendants, 'Early Settlers Association,' Erected Tablet by River: D-8
Pioneer Teacher Tells of Hardships, Susan Sanders DuBois: J-5
Pioneering Is Still Going on in County (Newhouse): C-4
Platt Family Carved Out Indiantown Home from Wilderness: DD-4
Port Salerno Has Had names of Alicia, Aberdeen and Mulford: CC-2
Post Was Named for Hero Killed in Bataan Fight (Murphy): CC-5
Power Came to Stuart in 1916: A-6
R. L. Beville Stuart's First Railway Agent: E-2
R. R. Ricou & Sons Fish Co. Started in 1886: D-1
Ray Robertson Recalls Days When Carloads of Pines Used to Roll to North: D-3
Real Estate Story Is a Record of Blood, Sweat, Failure, M. P. Nelson: CC-7
Rev. H. H. Jones Formed Church In Jensen 1906: D-6
Rev. Sawyer's Family Came to the Old Town of Tibbals from New York: D-5
Robinson Crusoe Was Filmed in Stuart: H-3
Saw Seminole Fleet of Canoes, Lucie Richards LeTourneau: D-8
Scientist Celebrating Golden Jubilee: A-7
Seaboard President Hoped For a City at Indiantown: 7-DD
Sharks Finished Local Fertilizer Plant Try:CC-3
She Danced Out Soles of Shoes At. Pioneers' Christmas Party (Cassie Gore): I
Society News as it should be written (Ehrhart): C-3
Sorensen Family's Sloop Arrived In Sail from Titusville in 1889, Harry Schultz: D-1
Special-Edition Inlet Deepening 54 Years in Past: F-6
St. Lucie Canal, Approved in 1914, Is Boon to Agriculture Here: H-6
Stanley Kitching Sold First Autos: F-7
Story of a Little Girl With a Great Big Voice and Sincere Devotion: DD-2
Stuart Commercial Club Forerunner of Chamber: CC-5
Stuart Rotary Formed in '29: CC-3
Stuart Was named For Homer T. (H) Stuart: E-7
Stuart Woman's Club Has Aided the Area In Many Activities for half a Century: H-8
Stypmann Brothers Real Pioneers: H-4
Sweet and the Bitter Were Mingled in Early Days Efforts at P. C.: K-3
They Located in Wilderness in Waveland (Edwards): D-6
Thomas Hellier and Wife Picked Jensen in 1898: D-1
Times told Of a Flight by H. Willoughby: G-6
Titus Hart Came to Jupiter Isle in 1890, Lucy Wethington: K-8
Tom DeSteuben First Lawyer Jensen Area: D-6
Town (Jensen) Was Incorporated on Date of Jan. 18,1926: D-5
Tribute to Forgotten Pioneers: C-4
Twenty-seven Men Started Kiwanis: CC-5
Uncle Joe Bowers, Old Batch, Married on Horseback in 1940: DD-4
View of the Past and a Glance at the Future: C-4
W. A. Roebuck Family Settled Toward Indiantown: BB-1
Wallace Stevens, Editor's Son, Tells of Life in Early Stuart, Wallace Stevens: H-1
Walter Kitching, Merchant, Left Personal Record, Walter Kitching: F-1
We've Had Four Big Hurricanes In Past 42 Years: C-5
White City Founded by Danes Who Were Bilked: C-7
Who Were Members of Indian River Armed Occupation? William Henry Peck: F-5 & 6
Will Hawley Stevens Founded the Stuart Times: H-1
Willoughby Papers a Priceless Gift to the Historical Society: G-8
Willoughby the Inlet Is key to This Area: G-6
Willoughby, Pioneer Aviator on Point: G-6
Woman's Club Incorporation Approved 50 Years Ago: CC-1
Wreck of the Brigantine J. H. Lane: I-4
Writer of These Memoirs Civil War Newspaperman (Peck): F-5
