Hawk Eye Cam
This is the latest camera image taken from the second story of my home in Temple Terrace, Florida. The photo is updated ever 5 seconds if all goes well.
From Temple Oranges to Temple Terrace
The city of Temple Terrace, sits unincorporated on Tampa's eastern border along a stretch of Bullard Parkway. In contrast to its big city neighbor, it is a fairly quite place to live with a population of just under 21,000 residents.
The name of Temple Terrace was derived from a new type of orange introduced in Florida called the temple. In 1922, the town was the largest orange grove in the world until a hard freeze in 1928 leveled it.
The original concept for the development of Temple Terrace was that it would be a golf course community targeted exclusively towards the wealthy, retired elite of the North. Some of the most famous names in the architectural world were involved in its planning. Mediterranean style homes from the 1920s can still be witnessed along the greens of its course, although today the city has evolved into a more suburban, rather than subterranean, setting.
Presently, local leaders are pursuing a revival of a walkable downtown area very much like it was envisioned almost 80 years ago but never built in the face of the encroaching Depression. Lofts, office space, retail shops and a new park will all connect outward to its residential neighborhoods.
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