Historic Turkey Creek High School
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Historic Turkey Creek High School
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| Location | Plant City, Florida |
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| Coordinates | Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. |
| Area | less than one acre |
| NRHP Reference # | 01000177[1] |
| Added to NRHP | March 2, 2001 |
The Historic Turkey Creek High School (currently known as the Turkey Creek Middle School) is a historic school in Plant City, Florida. Turkey Creek began as a log cabin in 1873 on Turkey Creek Road near Trapnell Road. In 1903, Turkey Creek moved to a new two story building on the southwest corner of Highway 60 and Turkey Creek Road, and was consolidated with Pleasant Grove School and Bledsoe School. The first class of the new school graduated in 1908, with three students receiving their diplomas. In 1972, the high school ceased operation, while the junior high continued until its conversion to a middle school in 1995. The school is now located at 5005 Turkey Creek Road, South, just north of Highway 60.[2] On March 2, 2001, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Agriculture
The history of Turkey Creek and Plant City is inextricably linked to strawberry farming. Many schools in Florida, especially those in eastern Hillsborough County were known as "strawberry schools" because they operated on a schedule dictated by the winter strawberry growing season. Historically, these strawberry schools closed for three months during the strawberry picking season in the winter months, rather than in the summer like most U.S. Schools. While this practice ended in 1956 after a series of heated rhetorical attacks by Jock Murray of the Tampa Tribune,[3] Turkey Creek Middle School is still closed for the Plant City Strawberry Festival in late winter. The school has a large FFA program and raises almost $20,000 per year from sales of student-grown agricultural products.
Turkey Creek Middle School
Present day Turkey Creek Middle School continues on the site today.[4]
References
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- ↑ http://plantcityobserver.com/2013/03/14/turkey-creek-school-celebrates-140-years/
- ↑ http://www.hillsborough.communityatlas.usf.edu/upload/documents/HILLSBOROUGH_COUNTY_Historic_Resources_Excerpts_Turkey%20Creek.pdf
- ↑ http://turkeycreek.mysdhc.org/
External links
- Hillsborough County listings at National Register of Historic Places
- Florida's Office of Cultural and Historical Programs
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