It all started about August 27, 1918, the arrival of influenza in the United States, that is. Three cases of the illness were first discovered in Boston that day; within ten days, the base hospital and infirmaries at the Army's Camp Devens outside the city were overwhelmed with thousands of sick trainees. The country's best medical teams were brought in to assess the outbreak.

Once upon a time ... more than 200 years ago ... the barren lands of Florida were void of humans except for tribes of indigenous people who lived alongside the key deer, black bears, gators, Florida panthers, and the many creatures that called Florida 'home'.

She was just a young girl of seventeen when she arrived in Largo with her family in 1925 but over the next seventy years Sadie Crawford Johnson spent a good portion of her time chronicling the lives and legends of her adopted hometown and championing for its preservation.

Majestic McKay Creek flows from its beginnings in mid-Pinellas County toward the bay in a graceful ebb of an ever-changing environment. At some points along the creek, the stately herons stand their ever-watchful guard for a next meal; Florida alligators roam along the banks; and as you approach the bay, docks and boats stand ready for easy access to fun on the water.

It all started in 1916! That was the year the enterprising ladies of the Woman’s Club of Largo lit a spark in the community that created what was to become the Pinellas County Fair.

Sometime around 1935, Emmette Jackson (b. 1890) built the West Coast Garage at its present location at 280 West Bay Drive. For 90 years, Jackson’s West Coast Garage has been a cornerstone of Largo’s rich history.