Temple Terrace travel guide

Temple Terrace is a city in north-central Hillsborough County, Florida. According to the city's 2006 estimates, the city had a population of 23,405. It is the third and smallest incorporated municipality in Hillsborough County, incorporated in 1925. The community is know for its rolling landscape, scenic Hillsborough River, and majestic trees; it has the most grand live oak trees of any community in central Florida.
The area now known as Temple Terrace was originally part of the exclusive hunting preserve of Chicago socialite Bertha Honore' Potter-Palmer. After Mrs. Palmer’s death in 1918, the family sold its holdings to three developers who formed two development corporations—Temple Terrace Estates, Inc., who developed the golf course and residential areas; and Temple Terraces, Inc., who developed of orange groves that originally surrounded the City, the largest orange grove in the world in the 1920s. The town was named for the then new hybrid Temple orange and the surrounding terraced terrain, several of the original homes also had terraced yards. In 1925, the Temple Terrace Golf and Country Club (still in existence) hosted the first ever Florida Open (billed as the "Greatest Field Of Golfers Ever to Play in Florida"). Every major golfer of the day competed in the event except Bobby Jones. Golf course architect was Thomas Bendelow who also designed Medinah #3 in Chicago. Temple Terrace is one of the first planned golf course communities in the United States and was designed in the Mediterranean Revival style by architect Dwight James Baum. Many of Temple Terrace's residents teach or work at the nearby University of South Florida and the close-knit community has strong ties to that institution. (...) more....

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