Hodgson Brothers Store and Boatways
Alexander R. Hodgson, H.U. Hodgson and John Edwin Hodgson, brothers, together with their families,came to Eau Gallie about 1883. they founded the Hodgson Brothers mercantile business at this
location in the 1890s. they later added a marine
ways and machine shop
For a number years the Hodgsons operated a
small steamboat in connection with their
business, as well as having an orange grove on
the south side of the Eau Gallie river.
When John Edwin Hodgson died in june, 1918, the
whole town turned out for the funeral held in
St. John Episcopal Church.
Every business in Eau Gallie closed for the
occasion.
Marker is on Houston Street 0.1 miles south of Young Street, on the right when traveling south.
Courtesy hmdb.org
