tampa bay environmental atlas : water resources: gandy bridge. /national coastal ecosystems team (u.s.)
Petersburg, was inaugurated in 1914, and the Gandy Bridge between the two cities opened 10 years later. In 1928 Tampa was connected by road to Miami via the Tamiami Trail. In the 1920s the man-made Davis Islands were created offshore in Hillsborough Bay (Tampa Bay’s eastern arm) for ...
"The Gandy Bridge, First to Span Tampa Bay" has been updated with newspaper clippings and narrative concerning Gandy's Island, information about the tolls including actual toll receipts from 1942, and the story behind the streetcar tracks that ran down the center of the bridge from it's openin...
When the Gandy Bridge was completed in the fall of 1924, Lowry represented the City of Tampa with Mayor-Commissioner Perry G. Wall at the opening ceremony. Today, two neighborhoods carry his name and the Lowry House is home to law offices at 333 S Plant Ave. But WHY was Lowry Park ...