FORT LAUDERDALE, FL – The Historic Stranahan House Museum is hosting its free monthly Stranahan Stories on Monday, June 15 at 11 a.m. featuring Dr. Michele Williams of the Florida Public Archaeology Network.
During the presentation entitled “Archaeology and the New River,” Dr. Williams will utilize historic images to teach guests more about the history of Fort Lauderdale’s greatest natural resource – the New River.
Guided tours of Stranahan House will be available that day at noon, 1, 2 and 3 p.m. Tour tickets that day are Buy-One-Get-One-Free. Tours will take guests through the epic history of Fort Lauderdale’s oldest and most historic home. Made almost exclusively of Dade County Pine, the house has survived more than 100 years on the New River and was an integral part of the birth and development of Fort Lauderdale.
Dr. Williams graduated from Washington University in St. Louis with a M.A. and Ph.D. in anthropology and a specialization in archaeology. She has participated in excavations throughout the southeastern United States for the past 20 years and specialized in the use of plants by prehistoric Native Americans.
For more information about the Stranahan House or Stranahan Stories, call 954-524-4736 or visit www.StranahanHouse.org.
About Historic Stranahan House and Museum
The Stranahan House was built in 1901, when Broward County was no more than a bleak southern frontier supposedly unsuited for human habitation. The existing residents were the Seminoles who traveled down the New River to Frank Stranahan’s trading post to do business. Over the years as Fort Lauderdale grew and developed, the house became a post office, boarding house, restaurant and home to the “Founding Father” and “First Lady” of Fort Lauderdale – Ivy and Frank Stranahan. Today it stands as the oldest house in Fort Lauderdale and an epicenter of Broward County’s long and fascinating history.
