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Gulfport, FL - History


We would like to provide the residents of  Gulfport  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Gulfport Home page. The Gulfport Home page provides as much information as possible on Gulfport. Knowing Gulfport’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Gulfport’s Home page, you will also find Gulfport’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Gulfport has a population of 12334. 47.3% of Gulfport’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.7 are female. 42.2% of Gulfport is married and 72.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $218,852, and the average rent is $1,119. Household median income in Gulfport is $53,869, and the individual median income is $31,458. Gulfport’s Ethnic is the following: White(84.7%), Black(8.3%), Multiple(4.4%), Hispanic(3.6%), Asian(1.6%), Other(0.5%), Native(0.4%).


Archaeological digs around Boca Ciega Bay indicate that settlements existed in the area circa 3000 to 8000 BC. The area was also densely populated during the Safety Harbor period. In 1528, the Spanish explorer Pánfilo de Narváez landed on the Pinellas peninsula, some say near present-day Gulfport, where he encountered the local Timucuan peoples.Gulfport has been known by several names since its founding.


The first settler in what would become Gulfport were James and Rebecca Barnett in 1868 and named the area Barnett's Bluff. As other settlers trickled in and homesteaded the area, the settlement became known as Bonifacio around 1880. In 1884 Philadelphia financier Hamilton Disston envisioned a thriving port town that he called Disston City.


However, the United States Postal Service would not recognize the name as it conflicted with a town in Hillsborough County, and the name Bonifacio was retained. Once that community folded in 1890, the Post Office allowed Bonifacio to be renamed as Disston City. In 1905, the town name was changed to Veteran City to reflect John Chase's vision for a retirement community of Civil War veterans.


On October 12, 1910 the name changed officially to Gulfport when it got incorporated at the Gulf Casino located on the dock of Electric Railroad Company. On April 1, 1886, a man named W. J. McPherson, who had moved to Disston City from Deland the previous year, published The Sea Breeze, which was the first newspaper for the lower Pinellas Peninsula.


With a population of about 150 people, Disston City was the largest settlement on the lower peninsula in the 1880s.During the first two decades of the 20th century, there was a considerable leftist movement in Florida. This included Gulfport electing E. E. Wintersgill, a Socialist mayor, in 1910 and having four Socialists to one Democrat sitting on the town's council.Gulfport was a sundown town into the 1950s.


An informal policy prohibited African Americans from staying within town limits after sundown.


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