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Video History

City Pier (part I)

Today, many people look at the Marina Jack restaurant and boat docks and think they have always been here. Not so...They are just beyond where the Scots landed and built our first pier.

Havin' Fun In Sarasota

Just for fun, something to sing-a-long with.

Landing of the Scots

Great Scot! Our uncaped history crusader investigates the story of Sarasota's Scottish settlers of 1885.

Rosemary Cemetery

Rosemary Cemetery is burial place for many early Sarasota citizens, civic leaders, and entrepreneurs including Scotsman John Hamilton Gillespie.

Lee visits the historic American National Bank building, more commonly known as the Orange Blossom Hotel buiding. It is located on lower Main Street in virtually the same spot as the Belle Haven Inn - Sarasota's first grand hotel to lure investors and the affluent to our area in the late 1800s.