Historical Photos - Marion County Clerk

In an effort to preserve and share Marion County's history with the public, we have loaded a gallery of Historical Photographs online. These photographs are proved by various contributors such as The Henderson Collection and the Marion County Historic Society.

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Arrow Heads and Death Points discovered at Silver Glen Springs

Spoons and Celts discovered at Silver Glen Springs

Stone Age Pottery discoverd at Silver Glen Springs

Stone Age tools discovered at Silver Glen Springs

Stone Age Relics discovered at Silver Glen Springs

Stone Age Tools discovered at Silver Glen Springs

Stone Age needles and awls discovered at Silver Glen Springs

Stone Age pot

Arrow Heads and Death Points discovered at Silver Glen Springs

Stone Age pot

Stone Age pot

Skull comparison

Rocks

Old broken pottery pieces

Arrow heads and tools

Arrow heads and tools

Skeleton unearthed at Silver Glen Springs

Skeleton unearthed at Silver Glen Springs

Skulls

Skeletal remains -- organized

Skull fossil

Skeletal remains

Historical Photo 6

Silver Springs Hotel

South Magnolia Street Scene

School children outside their school for a photo opportunity.

An example of an 1890 house/home. This one was located on Ocklawaha Avenue

National Colony House at Summerfield

National Farmers' Alliance "Ocala Demands" plaque.

"Oxcart" - one of the odd characters of Ocala

Benjamin Brothers' Ice House

Home of "Freshness and Fragrance" - Lover's Lane, Ocala

An example of logging with oxen.

An Ocala Home

The Belleview Library

Rainbow Springs

Ocala Fire Station, Ocala Street.

Turpentine workers and business owners.

Mile Marker

Rock mining

Lady looking over the garden wall.

Man and Woman posed for portrait [photograph].

Road mile marker in Ocala forest - 26 miles to Ocala

A local farm scene [cow in yard].

School Kids

Parade on South Magnolia at West Broadway, Ocala.

Packing house and wharf on Heather Island off the Ocklawaha River

A man, a boy and a car posed in a backyard

William Jennings Bryan on the Square, Ocala.

Fair sign spanned Broadway at the south side of the square.

House

An early Marion County Road.

Ocala House

The Baptist Witness Building at Fort King and Osceola. The Fire Station shows behind it.

Lake Weir Yacht Club Group

Ocala scene

An Ocala Street Scene - "Ocala Street"

Ocala House and Old Courthouse

Timbering

Ocala House looking south on Main Street

First Presbyterian Church on Fort King

Logging Train

Cane grinding, cooking syrup [processing sugar].

Silver Springs boating scene

Silver Springs boating scene

Ocala Street Scene

Seaboard railroad depot on North Magnolia.

Looking East on Broadway, South side of square.

Ocala Street

Ocala and Silver Springs Company - Ocala House

Silver Springs scene

Tapping turpentine trees near Ocala

Oakhurst Plantation

Mill

Silver Springs run at Ocklawaha.

An Ocala Street

Oxen hauling fuel for the Ocklawaha steamboat.

Floating Timber on the Ocklawaha River

Silver Springs from hotel, greatest curiosity in Florida.

A Typical Ox Cart

Marion Coutny Road

Marion County Lumber Industry - cypress logs.

Stage Coach

Phosphate Mining

Cypress Trees identified for logging

1891 Award for Ocala Fire Volunteers

Street car on Magnolia in front of courthouse.

Logging crew, wagon and train engine.

An example of logging with oxen.

1886 Gator Hunt, Orange Lake.

Historical Photo 5

Ocala Street Scene.

Turpentine Still.

Historical Photo 4

S.S. O&G Train - Ocala to Dunellon

Grace Episcopal Church on East Broadway.

First Baptist Church on North Magnolia

Carnegie Library at Fessenden School

Lt. Col Brehan Somerville observing the Ship Canal Construction on April 23, 1936.

Ocala Post Office under construction [1905]

Ocala Post Office, constructed 1905

Ocala House - view looking east from the Court House

Semi-Tropical Exposition 1888-1889

Reverse side of a business envelope issued in 1891 by FGB Weihe, for many years a jeweler in Ocala. Effort was then being made to move the capital here to Ocala, from Tallahassee. The envelope was cleverly designed, showing Ocala as the hub of a wheel, around which State affairs revolve.

Florida Ship Canal under construction - 1936

Ocala - People's choice for State Capital!

Marion County Court House, Ocala, FL

Ocala Post Office, 1905

Phosphate rock pit

Broadway, looking east from Magnolia

Ocala House Menu from Sunday, March 24, 1889

Car race at Marion County Fairgrounds, West Broadway.

Silver Springs Hotel, near Ocala, Florida

Amaskahegan Oak, Lake Weir, Florida

The Randall Hotel on the Ocklawaha River in Connor, Florida.

Metamora - Lucas Line on the Ocklawaha River

Summerfield

Belleview Street Scene [including horses]. Robinson Avenue.

Ocala neighborhood street scene.

Barge Canal

Spanish American war boys in front of Ocala House on day they left for Cuba.

Merchant Blocks downtown Ocala

Phosphate outcropping with caves.

Magnolia Street looking South, Ocala, Florida

Knight & Lang Livery Stable, NW corner of Main and Oklawaha.

Photo of Broadway, looking West.

Horse-drawn trolley on Broadway. Rane West to Marti City

View down a street in Ocala

Looking SE and SW from Ocala House Tower

Looking NE and NE from Ocala House Tower

Historical Photo 3

Historical Photo 2

Seaboard railroad depot on North Magnolia.