Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center

The Sulphur Springs Museum and Heritage Center is a local history museum in Mann-Wagnon Memorial Park, located at 1101 East River Cove Street in Sulphur Springs, a neighborhood of Tampa, Florida. The museum opened in 2010.[1]

The museum's collection includes mastodon bones, stone arrowheads, and accounts of the area's mineral water site. There are also recordings from Spring Hill, an African-American town that is now part of Sulphur Springs. Jack Kerouac lived in a house on the river. There are also photographs of Nebraska Avenue in 1923, Model T's and the area's tourists.[2]

References

  1. ↑ "Sulphur Springs history museum to open in park". Published January 21, 2010. Tampa Bay Times. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
  2. ↑ Rejuvenated Mann-Wagnon park is among recent community improvements by Kathy Steele January 22, 2010 Tampa Tribune

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