Faces From the Past ... The 1800's

The Hedick family of the Lake Lindsey area (1884) - Smithie Hedick, Lizzie, Franklin M. and Sarah

One of the most fascinating things about Old Brooksville magazine is our search for old photos. The older the better. This issue features some of he classic old photos from the 19th century. Directly after the Civil War you began to see more professional photographers as well as local individuals taking up the hobby of photography. Tintypes were popular between 1860 and 1890. Dating as far back as the 1870s there was a professional photography studio in Brooksville named Field and Fisher.

Enjoy this trip to the 1800s.

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Thanks to the following for their contributions:

John White

George Allen Jr.

Lou Charity

1885 Train Depot

The Heritage Museum

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Tululu Saxon and James Rhodes Saxon (1877)

John and Ann Crum, Brooksville (1874)

1872 Brooksville family

Turpentine still (1870)

Brooksville's first newspaper, The Florida Crescent was started by Fred Robertson (1880). The press was brought up from Tampa on the stagecoach road that connected the two towns. The paper's location was a frame building where the Truist Bank is today (the Main Street entrance).

Rare photo of a Brooksville gathering (1875) at their downtown home.

Brooksville second grade class (1895)

Brooksville couple and child (1888)

Louise Chalmers (1885). Her father owned a newspaper in Brooksville (1885-1886)

1876 Brooksville family. They're all in a trance for the photographer.

Brooksville Home (1865)

Brooksville mother and child (1890)

Dorothy Ederington Hale and daughter Mary Alice Hale

Canoe trip on the Withlacoochee (1870) east of Brooksville

Two Brooksville ladies in the park (c. 1880)

Three gentlemen from Lake Lindsey (1885)

Billy Kelly (top), John McKeown and Addison McKeown (sitting)

Eliza Mae Chapman (1865)

Charlotte Ederington (1862) lived in home atop Chinsegut Hill

Jincey Baker (1886)

Mariam Choate (1886)

Rhodes Saxon (1895)