Spring Hill School from Images of America — Brooksville by Robert G. Martinez. This picture also appears in Children on the Tampa Bay Frontier by Canter Brown Jr., with this caption: “The Frederick Lykes Spring Hill School. The teacher shown here was Miss Lallie Tate of Alabama. (Courtesy of Lykes Bros., Inc.)” The caption in Old Brooksville in Photos & Stories is: “This is the earliest Brooksville photo found. About 1852 of the Spring Hill School, which was built in 1851 and was located about where West Ft. Dade and Citrus Way is today.”

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