Lutz Branch Library

April is Child Abuse Prevention Month. The library has partnered with the Children's Board of Hillsborough County to bring awareness of the importance of providing safe and secure environments for children by creating pinwheel gardens outside our library branches throughout the county. Learn more at ChildrensBoard.org.

Do you ever wonder how the streets around Tampa and Lutz were originally created? This 1921 photograph shows L.B. Smith using a horse-drawn earthmover called a wheel scraper to grade the dirt bed before asphalt brick was laid on S.R. 5, now known as U.S. 41. Specifically, he was driving the wheel scraper at the intersection of Bearss Avenue and Florida Avenue!

View more historical photographs of Hillsborough and Pasco counties in our Elizabeth Riegler MacManus Collection of Lutz Area Pioneer History at the DigitalCollections.HCPLC.org. You can also visit the Lutz Branch Library to see items from the collection in person.