Treasure Island, Florida
by Marcia Lee Jones
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Treasure Island, Florida
Artist
Marcia Lee Jones
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Photograph - Photography
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Throughout its eight decades, Treasure Island has hosted and celebrated a spectrum of inspiring human achievements in art, architecture, engineering and visionary national and civic endeavors, the first of which was the construction of the island itself.
The 400 acre artificial island was built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1936-37 on the shoals of neighboring Yerba Buena Island. Constructed of mud dredged from the Bay, it may have been named for the gold its soil might contain. The federal government paid for its construction and for three permanent buildings which would serve a potential future airport.
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