Egmont Key makes historic preservation list because it is threatened
ST. PETERSBURG Every year the Florida Trust for Historic Preservation picks 11 properties to highlight as the most threatened historic properties in the state.
This year, three of those sites are in the Tampa Bay area.
“This canada goose outlet new york city is the first time a site has made the list due to canada goose the threat of sea level rise,” said Clay Henderson, the president of the trust’s board of trustees. “We see this as a new threat.”
The loss of historic properties Canada Goose Jackets to a rising sea became a top concern for the trust, Henderson explained, after canada goose store seeing the damage that Hurricane Matthew inflicted on St. Augustine last year.
As the October storm’s eyewall skirted official canada goose outlet the oldest continuously occupied city in America, it sent a 7 foot storm surge swirling through the streets. Flooding canada goose factory outlet affected all seven of its federally designated historic districts, damaging about half of the 2,000 properties in those areas.
“We have flooding records in St. Augustine canada goose outlet store that go back 500 years, and Matthew exceeded all canada goose outlet black friday previous flood events,” Henderson said. As a result, canada goose clearance sale he said, “it’s got all of the historic preservation community thinking about how canada goose jacket outlet to deal with this.”
A 2014 federal report compiled canada goose outlet store uk by 60 scientists found that Florida flatter than Kansas, with water on two sides is particularly vulnerable to a rising sea. Sea levels have risen by about 8 inches since reliable record keeping began in 1880, the report said, and are projected to rise another 1 to 4 feet by 2100. That effect has already made rain related flooding worse in Miami Beach and Key West.
At Egmont, a picturesque island at the mouth of Tampa Bay, history has been fighting a losing battle with the waves for decades. When federal surveyors mapped its boundaries in 1875, Egmont Key was about 50 percent larger than canada goose outlet jackets it is canada goose uk shop today.
“The west beach used to be the center of the island,” said Richard Sanchez, president of the Egmont Key Alliance. Government officials have tried to build the beaches back up by dumping more sand on them, he said, “but as soon as we get sand in place, it washes away.”
The main historic buildings on Egmont are the lighthouse, which dates back to 1858 but is still in use, and Fort Dade, built in 1898 to defend the bay against invaders during the Spanish American War. Two of the fort’s gun batteries on the south end of the island are now 100 yards offshore, Sanchez said.
Sanchez said he couldn’t gauge how much rising sea levels will continue to drive the island’s continued erosion woes. But he pointed out that during a storm last year he could not recall which https://www.nationaalzweminstituuteindhoven.nl one the surge reached the lighthouse and damaged the canada goose outlet electrical system. The lighthouse sits a quarter mile inland on the highest point on the island.
“Normally the building where the electrical connections are doesn’t flood,” he said.
The Florida Trust for Historic Preservation was formed in 1976 to save the state’s historic Capitol building. Now the nonprofit works to promote Canada Goose Coats On Sale the preservation of Florida’s architectural, historical and archaeological heritage. today at the Palladium in canada goose outlet nyc St. Petersburg.
Over the years the trust has scored some wins, said trust executive director Melissa Wyllie, such as Miami’s Little Havana. Earlier this year it was listed canada goose outlet uk sale as a National Treasure by the National Trust for Historic Places.
The group has canada goose uk black friday also seen some canada goose outlet big defeats, she said, including the loss of the Belleview Biltmore Hotel in northern Pinellas County. It was built in 1897 by railroad magnate Henry Plant but closed in 2009. Much of it was dismantled last year.
The other two Tampa Bay properties on this year’s “11 to Save” list are both in Hillsborough County. One is “The Nest,” also known as the Moseley Plantation, built in 1886 in Brandon. The other is the Jackson House, built in 1899 in Tampa.
The Nest is that rare bird among Florida properties, a place canada goose outlet uk that’s been owned by the same family since it was first canada goose coats built by Charles Scott Moseley and his wife, artist Julia Daniels. The wall in one room was displayed as part of the Florida exhibit in the 1892 World’s Columbian Exhibition in Chicago. The 15 acre site is threatened by development.
The Jackson House was built in one of Tampa’s oldest African American neighborhoods, known as “the Scrub.” Its second owner, Moses Jackson, converted it into a boarding house, and over the decades its guests have included Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Count Basie and Billie Holiday. Although spared from demolition, the building remains in poor condition.