PIONEER PARK FOUNDATION

Your tax-deductible contribution to the Fund, perhaps as a memorial to a loved one, would be deeply appreciated. Pioneer Park Foundation, Inc. is a not for profit 501(c)(3) organization... In 1976, Jay B. Starkey, Sr., son of St. Petersburg pioneers, initiated a project to establish a memorial to St. Petersburg's pioneers. With a substantial contribution of his own money, a group of like minded descendants of pioneers and interested citizens, and with the cooperation of the City Council and City Leisure Services Department, Pioneer Park was dedicated on November 26, 1981... At the center of Pioneer Park in St. Petersburg, Florida stands a 20-foot-tall obelisk, a monument commemorating many distinctive early settlers who in the 1800s and early 1900s, imagined a city on this sparsely settled sub-peninsula of Florida. These people began to build the city of their dreams and had the foresight to preserve the waterfront for public use; to lay out a systematic plan for city streets; and to..

Also known as: Pioneer Park Foundation, Inc., The Pioneer Park Foundation, Inc.

Primary location: Petersburg United States