The Gala Decade: Freedom Magazine Presents The History of Clearwater Florida Part V

The Gala Decade: 1921 Begins Clearwater’s Boom Period

Fort Harrison
...the 1926 Fort Harrison...

And with the fast-track development taking place in Pinellas County, local government officials were pressed to provide more and more improvements. In 1923, a bond election for $2,863,000 for bridges and roads passed. From 1924 through 1926, 12 special road bridge districts were created in the county.

The boom continued through the decade, only peaking in 1926.

With the building boom, the word went out to all corners of the country that big profits could be made in Florida real estate. The 1920s quickly became the first heyday of the real estate speculator in Clearwater and the state.