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"Palm Harbor is the largest historic district in unincorporated Pinellas County"
- Palm Harbor Historic District
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Palm Harbor is located in unincorporated Pinellas County, Florida. Palm Harbor is made up of 28 square miles, 17 miles of land and 10 miles of water.
Palm Harbor is located 22 miles north of St. Petersburg and west of Tampa situated between the coastal cities of Dunedin and Tarpon Springs. It is largely residential with several concentrations of commerce.
The Downtown Palm Harbor Historic District is located north of Tampa Road between US 19 N and Omaha Street and over the years has been host many small shops and eateries. There is also a handful of historic buildings.
Palm Harbor is also home to Innsbrook Golf Resort which opened in 1970 and is home to an annual PGA Tour stop, the Valspar Championship.
The area of Palm Harbor was largely uninhabited until settlers began arriving in the 1860s. A post office named "Bay St. Joseph" opened in 1878. In 1881, Henry B. Plant opened the San Marino Hotel in what later became Palm Harbor in 1885. The Sutherland Improvement Company acquired land in the Curlew/Bay St. Joseph area and developed it into the settlement of Sutherland. In 1888 the Sutherland Post Office opened. The Orange Belt Railway reached Sutherland in 1890.
The name was changed to Palm Harbor in 1925. Sutherland boasted two beautiful hotels, the larger one becoming Southern College in 1902. In 1985, the Pinellas County Board of County Commissioners enacted County Code 85–28, which set into place the Palm Harbor Community Services Agency (PHCSA), a special taxing district to which tax was levied in the form of millage to provide for recreational and library services to the unincorporated community.
Palm Harbor is an unincorporated part of Pinellas County. HB 183 – Town of Palm Harbor/Pinellas County,from 2009, was the most recent local bill that would have scheduled a referendum allowing Palm Harbor voters the opportunity to decide whether they wanted to incorporate, but the bill died in committee. Pinellas County legislators had voted on January 22, 2009, to support a bill allowing voters in Palm Harbor to decide whether they wanted their unincorporated community to become the county's 25th city.
It passed but was shot down by the Pinellas County Commission. In 1994 community members recognize the need to create an attractive downtown that would maintain the character and heritage of the area.
In 2021, Pinellas County adopted the Downtown Historic Palm Harbor Master Plan which outlined a series of recommendations for improvement within the downtown. In 2002, the Old Palm Harbor Downtown Zoning District was adopted providing standards as well as regulations.
The Downtown Palm Harbor Historic District (DPHHD) covers roughly 25 acres of land or approximately 8 blocks or contribution and noncontributing structures in the historic district. There was a total of 9 contributing structures until Peggy Oneil’s was torn down, there is currently 8 historic structures in the historic district but several in the surrounding historic areas.
The Fred E. Marquis Pinellas Trail runs parallel with Alt 19 thru the historic district. The trail is a protected green space built on the abandoned railroad corridor which once was the Orange Belt Railway from Tarpon Springs to Clearwater. As of August 2025 the Pinellas Trail Loop will extend to 75 miles and is used for walking, jogging, skating, and biking.
Palm Harbor has recently acquired a Golf Cart Zone designation which is bordered on the west by Palm Harbor Boulevard on the east by Belcher Road and multiple community streets, on the north by Delaware Ave and Kansas Avenue, and the south by Tampa Road allowing for golf carts to operate on roadways in unincorporated Pinellas County within the adopted boundaries.
First sites were platted in 1888 and the town was named Palm Harbor in 1925"
- Palm Harbor Historic District