H. Walter Fuller Influence On St. Fullers

Here in St. Petersburg Florida, we get the chance to appreciate one of the numerous manifestations of H. Walter Fuller. One of them being the vision of both him and his sons land improvement group that were credited with beginning the Pinellas County area blast in the mid 1900 's. H. Walter Fuller and his child Walter P. Fuller picked up notoriety and fortune as they were the first to imagine turning what was then 133 sections of land of wilderness territory into the recreational destination we now call Walter Fuller Park. Conceived in the city of Atlanta on May 17, 1865, Henry Walter Fuller later contracted tuberculosis. It began around 1883 when H. Walter Fuller 's specialist gave him some awful news. He let him know that he would never live to be 21 when he discovered he had tuberculosis. When he thoroughly considered all was, the specialist gave him an answer. He advised Fuller that on the off chance that he moved to Florida, that his most recent couple of months would be

With an expected measure of 60 donkeys and a few hundred men in 1907, Fuller came to St. Petersburg to clear Maximo Road. He built up the Independent Line of transportation one year later and contended with F.A. Davis ' St. Petersburg Transportation Co. By 1909 H. Walter Fuller was the real shareholder in Davis ' domain, which incorporated the transportation organization and the electric organization. Fuller therefore fabricated a force plant at sixteenth Street and First Avenue N and propelled the trolley from 7 to 23 miles in length. By 1914, Fuller had set up Central Land and Title Co. He broadened Central and First streets N and S to 100 feet and stretched out Central to Boca Ciega Bay. He had bought Treasure Island for $800,000. "He turned into a mogul (once more) and set off the city 's first genuine area blast (1911 to 1914)," student of history Ray Arsenault composed of Fuller, who utilized proficient organizers and added to the Jungle Golf Course and the Jungle and Pasadena