BY WM. F. CRARY I I
What’s in a name?
Practically everything when it comes to Martin County. By any other name, the county would not be. Idea and hour had to meet in a fleeting moment of opportunity, and there had to be a self-promoting salesman governor, too. He was John Wellborn Martin, and he was an [...]
BY WM. F. CRARY II
The railroad tycoon made the pineapple boom on the Treasure Coast — and he broke it, too
For 20 years or more, the whims of an aging tycoon controlled the destinies of every pioneer on the Treasure Coast. Pineapple planters in the sparsely settled communities of Stuart, Jensen, Fort Pierce and [...]
BY WM. F. CRARY A fondness for fishing and the townsfolk drew former President Grover Cleveland repeatedly to Stuart in the early 20th century
In those days the waters ran clear. We can only imagine the beauty and color of the St. Lucie River reflecting in Grover Cleveland’s eyes. The first time he saw it was in 1900, some 15 years before soldiers started digging the [...]
Judge Joe Peel’s trial on charges of murdering a fellow judge and his wife was St. Lucie’s most sensational Palm Beach Municipal Judge Joe Peel, left, was tried in St. Lucie County court in 1961 on charges of murdering fellow Judge Curtis E.Chillingworth, right. The case attracted national headlines and was St. Lucie County’s most [...]
STUART, Florida– William F. “Rick” Crary II, partner in the Crary Buchanan law firm and a resident of Martin County for more than half a century, has had a lifelong interest in history. But it wasn’t until the historic home of his Crary grandparents was moved by the city of [...]
