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Listen: The Assorted Selections ProgramView showing the Frank Saxon House at 200 Saxon Ave. in Brooksville, Florida.
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Collection
Series/Collection number: S 1047, Publicity photographs, 1940-1996 ; Box 3, FF10
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Personal Subjects
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General Note
Accompanying note: "Scarborough Hse".
Biographical Note
Frank Elmore Saxon was born in 1841 in Alabama, Georgia. His family moved to Florida prior to the Civil War, initially settling in Tallahassee. During the war, Saxon was a member of the Hernando Wild Cats, (part of the Florida Third Regiment) and was wounded near Jacksonville in 1862. After the war, Saxon served as county tax assessor from 1874 through 1876, as Brooksville's postmaster and chief of police from 1880 to 1883, clerk of the court from 1887 to 1888 and again from 1893 to 1909. He also served as a State Representative from 1887 to 1889. He donated land for a three-room school house large enough to hold all the students in Hernando County, grades one through 12. Frank E. Saxon died in 1922 and is buried in the Brooksville Cemetery. His Great Floridian plaque is located at the Heritage House Museum, which was originally the May-Stringer House at 601 Museum Court, Brooksville. The Frank Saxon House was later added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1998.
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