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A Few Pioneer Families Are All That Remain in Tasmania

By George Lane, Jr. Tampa Tribune Staff Writer
Friday, November 20, 1987

Copyright for the article is held by the Tampa Tribune.  Reprint permission is pending.  In the meantime, you can contact them for more information or access the article in the microfilm collection at the Hillsborough County Library.

"No cemetery, historical marker or much written history records the coming and going of the community."

Facts Extracted:

Tasmaia is between Venus and Bermont, near Rainey Slough and Fisheating Creek in northwest Glades County.

Post Office established as Fisheating Creek, Sept. 25, 1913.  Name changed to Tasmania on Oct. 6, 1916.

Schools:  Adrian School on the north side of Rainey Slough
Luck Island, built on the south side in 1914

Post Office and Schools closed by the late 1930's

Named in the article:

Lucky Island one-room schoolhouse

Ghost towns: Venus, Hicoris, Hall City and Delverde

Morgan Ingraham, son of the late Dr. J. B. Ingraham

Gene Harn, one of 14 children, parents William W. and Willie H. Harn

Cook family moved to Tasmania In 1918. He was a salesman. She opened a trading post.

Earl Hendry