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Southeast
Seminole Heights History This is an ongoing research into the neighborhood history, and as more information becomes available the article will be updated. The South East Seminole Heights Civic Association's current boundaries are from Hillsborough south to Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd, and 15th Street west to I-275. Early History SESH is composed of many platted subdivisions, including Demorest, Sultenfuss, Nebraska Heights, Nebraska Park, Shadowlawn, Hanley Heights and McDavid East Seminole Subdivisions among many others. The largest subdivisions are Demorest and Nebraska Heights. At that time these areas were platted, the City of Tampa Limits stopped at what was known then as Buffalo Avenue (now Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd) and this area was one of the early suburbs of Tampa. Demorest ranges from Osborne Ave. north to New Orleans from Nebraska to 13th Street and includes sections of Ellicott and Caracas. Demorest was originally known as General Allen Thomas Subdivision and was platted and surveyed in September 1906. General Thomas Allen was a Brigadier General in the Confederate States during the Civil War. After the war he held many positions including U.S. consult to Venezuela. He lived in Florida from 1889 to 1907. Nebraska Heights was surveyed in 1907 and encompasses the area from Osborne to Chelsea from 12th -15th Streets. McDavid's
East Seminole Subdivision, encompassing Hillsborough to Frierson from
12-15th Streets, is a Johnny come lately, being platted in 1921 and was
likely named to take advantage of the publicity generated from the various
Seminole Heights subdivisions (in Old Seminole Heights) which had recently
been developed. In the late 1980s a group of residents formed the Southeast Seminole Heights Clean up League to revitalize the neighborhood. One of the major accomplishments of the League was getting the City to close down a disruptive neighborhood bar, Boogies. In 1990 that League developed into the current Southeast Seminole Heights Civic Association. At that time the boundaries were Nebraska to 12th Street, Osborne to Hillsborough. Since then, as the request of residents in the areas bordering the original boundaries, the Association expanded to its current boundaries. Remnants of the original boundaries can be seen in the location of the Neighborhood signs located on the 12th Street, with the southern sign at Louisiana.
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