Event Details

St. Pete Preservation: Original Downtown Walking Tour

Time: 10:00 am til 12:00 pm

Location: Central Cafe & Organics, 243 Central Ave, St. Petersburg

Description: Do you have family and friends visiting for the New Year and are looking for interesting things for them to do? Start the new year with them by taking a St. Petersburg Preservation walking tour. On Saturday, January 5th the first tour of 2013, the "Original Downtown Walking Tour" will include a special inside look of St. Peter's Cathedral, a beautiful english gothic styled church whose turn of the century construction makes it one of the oldest buildings remaining in downtown St. Petersburg.

What: Downtown Tour
When: Saturday, Jan. 5, 10:00 am
Where: Central Cafe & Organics
243 Central Ave.

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Egmont Key - A History

Time: 2:00 pm til 3:30 pm

Location: Weedon Island Preserve, 1800 Weedon Drive NE, St. Petersburg, FL 33702

Description: Join us in this informative presentation and book-signing about Egmont Key by co-authors, Donald and Carol Thompson.
For hundreds of years, Egmont Key has been a strategic sentinel for ships coming into Tampa Bay from the Gulf of Mexico. The island's vast history reflects the major events that took place in Florida and the US with the Seminole Wars, the Civil War, Spanish-American War and WWI and WWII. In recent years, people have enjoyed the beaches, explored the ruins of Ft. Dade, and walked on the the red brick "roads to nowhere." Authors, Donald and Carol Thompson bring an appreciation of Egmont Key and "an understanding of its place in history."
2 to 3:30 pm.

Free; advance registration required. Weedon Island Preserve,1800 Weedon Drive NE, St. Petersburg. (727) 453-6500; www.weedonislandpreserve.org.

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