DiscoverWimauma

09/19/2026

🚨🔥 WIMAUMA, WE NEED YOU! 🔥🚨

💚💜 VOLUNTEERS NEEDED! 💜💚

Help Discover Wimauma Inc. make the 2nd Annual Wimauma Heart of Hillsborough Community Festival & Resource Fair BIGGER & BETTER! 🎉

📅 Saturday, October 17, 2026
⏰ 10 AM–1 PM
📍 Bethune Park Boys & Girls Club
5809 Edina Street, Wimauma, FL 33598

🍔🌭 URGENT NEED: We need a church, organization, civic group, or team to cook & serve HOT DOGS & HAMBURGERS!

🎓 Students: Earn volunteer/service hours while giving back!

🙌🏽 700+ came last year—1,000+ expected this year!

🔥 BRING YOUR TEAM. SERVE YOUR COMMUNITY. MAKE AN IMPACT!

📩 Message Discover Wimauma Inc. TODAY to volunteer!

Wimauma shows up! Let’s do it again! 💚💜❤️

07/16/2026

Congratulations to class members who attended the undocumented Sun City Negro High School in Sun City, Fl from 1947-1961.
I look forward to attending your all class reunion Saturday, July 18th in Ruskin, Fl.
Thank you for the invitation.

07/16/2026

Wimauma, Great News! Fence will be installed at Historic Wimauma Memorial Cemetery Thursday, July 30th and completed Friday, July 31st.

07/08/2026

Imagine attending a high school that never officially existed. Thats what happened with students and educators of the Sun City Negro High School in Sun City, present day Ruskin. Discover Wimauma is working expeditiously with the Univerity of South Florida to capture the stories of the few remaining students and two known teachers via a oral history project which will conclude next week.
We're in communication with the Hillsborough County School District to officially include this and the other 29 undocumented colored/negro schools (historic context, this is what schools were called) that operated in South and East Hillsborough County into the official records.
Imagine attending that same high school and never receiving a high school diploma. Because diplomas were not given.
This is the segregated history of South Hillsborough County.

Florida Trust for Historic Preservation, Inc.
Florida Humanities
Greater SouthShore Chamber of Commerce
Heart & History: Wimauma's Faith, Family, Farming & Friends
Wimauma CDC
Wimauma Cemetery Project
The BEAT of Tampa Bay
Florida Main Street
Florida Public Archaeology Network - West Central Region
Florida Division of Historical Resources
Black Tampa Historians

06/19/2026

04/28/2026

Mt.Moriah MB Church, Wimauma 1966

04/28/2026

Linda Gano

04/28/2026

In our endeavor to chronicle the history of Wimauma and South Hillsborough County, with a particular focus on preserving the often-overlooked Black history, we kindly request that you share any photographs and documents in your possession. These items will be scanned for preservation purposes and promptly returned to you. The University of South Florida will subsequently digitize the images, which will be utilized to narrate the previously undocumented story of Wimauma. We welcome any and all photographic materials that you may have.

04/28/2026

We extend our gratitude to USF. This exemplifies effective collaboration. Through our joint efforts, we have identified several more previously undocumented Black schools in unincorporated South and East Hillsborough County, and we have also obtained the names and addresses of teachers. This achievement is outstanding. With this information, we can proceed with documenting these institutions that were previously excluded from official records. Many more remain unlisted, with the current count approaching forty. This highlights the significance of our research, as only three Black schools have been formally documented. DiscoverWimauma is dedicated to ensuring these schools and educators are recognized in official records.
Attached documents are from 1937.
DiscoverWimauma
Black Tampa Historians
Wimauma Cemetery Project
Wimauma CDC
Heart & History: Wimauma's Faith, Family, Farming & Friends
Jackie Brown
Wimauma Railroad & History Museum
The BEAT of Tampa Bay
WFLA News Channel 8
Tampa-Hillsborough County Public Library

04/24/2026

DiscoverWimauma is pleased to announce a collaborative effort with the University of South Florida, centered on honoring students who attended the undocumented Sun City Negro Strawberry School in Ruskin, Florida, from 1948 to 1961 through an oral history project. DiscoverWimauma