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Clearwater Beach History
On January 14, 1897, Ernest Tate purchased an uninhabited wilderness known as Clearwater Beach Island. He paid $200 for the land grant of 164 acres. The property was part of Hillsborough County at that time (Pinellas County did not exist), and early maps officially titled it Clearwater Key. By the early 1900s, the land had […]
