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JOHN HAMILTON GILLESPIE by Jeff LaHurd

“The Scot Who Saved Sarasota”

Learn about the utter disillusionment and disappointment of the first colonists who arrived in Sarasota from Scotland in December of 1885 and how John Hamilton Gillespie transformed the wilderness into a village, then a town and finally a thriving city. 

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