Tree Removal in Pinecraft, FL

“Pinecraft” became the new name in 1925 or 1926 of what had been the Sarasota National Tourist Camp, consisting at the time of 466 campsites, most of them 40 feet (12 m) by 40 feet (12 m) in size, with a small public park at the present site of Pinecraft Park, a Community House and a water tank. At that time Pinecraft was about 1/2 square mile in size, bounded on the north by Bahia Vista Street (at the time Bay Vista Street), on the west by Phillippi Creek, on the south by Second Avenue South (roughly parallel with the current Schrock Street), and on the east by Yoder Street (at the time Eleventh Street, later Lee Drive).Sometime after 1926 another tourist camp called Homecroft was laid out on adjacent property west and north of Pinecraft, which sometime after 1946 was incorporated into Pinecraft. Homecroft, about 1/4 mile by 1/2 mile in size, was bounded by Hacienda Street on the north, Yoder Street (then Lee Drive) on the west, Schrock Street (then Acacia Street) on the south, and Beneva Road (then Beneva Drive) on the east.

The transition from camps to residential areas occurred gradually, with major housing construction beginning in the early 1940s, continuing briskly through the 1940s and into the 1950s. The roads were paved around 1949-1950. In 1949 single lots at Pinecraft sold for $200, corner lots for $225.