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Tierra Verde lies at the entry of the
Ft. Desoto National Park. Elegant homes and impressive
yachts line the shore and the connecting seawall canals
of this south Pinellas County island. All of the Tierra
Verde homes are of modern style, although many include
classical influences from European and early American
architecture. While single family houses prevail, this
community also harbors condominiums, marinas, tennis
courts, a hotel and small businesses.
Snell Isle
homes range from the $250's to the $5 millions.
Early in the 1980's Tierra Verde real estate was valued
at $15 million. Ten years later values had spiked to
$304 million. In 1996 the Pinellas County Property
Appraiser's Office evaluated Tierra Verde property
at $349 million. There are approximately 2,000 single-family
and multi-family structures and commercial structures
on Tierra Verde.
Tierra Verde was once 15 islands covered with mangroves,
pines and bush. These islands ranged in size from only
a few acres to the largest, Cabbage Key, having over
289 acres. For centuries, Indians used the islands
for ceremonial and burial grounds. A marker remains
on the east side of Pinellas Bayway, just north of
East Shore Drive, where Indian relics were found in
a typical shellmound, excavated when the road was built
to Fort DeSoto Park. The islands were sacred ground
to Indian nations as far back as 500 years ago, archaeologists
suggest, and deadly conflicts occurred when outsiders
trespassed.
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Then the Spanish explorers came. One explorer, Ponce
De Leon, came to the area in 1513, and again in 1521,
when he received the wound that he later died from
after returning to Cuba. Later, Hernando De Soto, Navarez
and John Ortiz explored, and then pirates and buccaneers
sailed the area, including Jose Gaspar, Juan Gomez
and Jean LaFitte. A treasure was reputed to have once
been buried here...continue>
Tierra
Verde Community Association
Fort
De Soto
Save
Our Seabirds, Inc.
The
Island Chapel
Pinellas
County Parks & Recreation
Tampa
Bay Watch
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