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| Timeline of Events That Influenced the Growth of the Jungle Country Club Area | |
| 900 | Tocobaga Indians begin settlements in Tampa Bay area, including the Jungle Prada site |
| 1400 | (approximate) Golf is invented in Scotland |
| 1513 | Ponce de Leon arrives and names the land "Florida" |
| 1528 | Pánfilo de Narváez and crew of 300 land near current Jungle Prada site |
| 1700 | Tocobaga Indians disappear from the historic record, primarily from disease brought by European explorers |
| 1744 | The Honorable Company of Edinburgh Golfers wrote down the first rules of the game |
| 1788 | Golf first played in United States |
| 1821 | Florida is transferred from Spain to the United States |
| 1845 | Florida is granted statehood |
| 1848 | Cat 4 hurricane reshapes the coastal geography and creates John's Pass |
| 1876 | John C. Williams, formerly of Detroit, purchases the land that will become St. Petersburg. |
| 1888 | Orange Belt Railway is extended to St. Petersburg. |
| 1892 | St. Petersburg is incorporated as a town |
| 1894 | Walter P. Fuller is born, son of H. Walter Fuller |
| 1897 | Belleair Country Club opens first golf course in Florida. It had 6 holes. |
| City’s electric light system is installed | |
| 1903 | St. Petersburg is re-incorporated as a city |
| 1904 | Trolley service begins in St. Petersburg |
| Noel A. Mitchell, who would later become mayor, encourages city to attract tourism with golf courses | |
| 1906 | The Electric Pier is built, replacing the Railroad Pier |
| 1906-08 Dredging of a deeper shipping channel opened St. Petersburg to larger vessels | |
| 1907 | Colonial Hotel burns down in spectacular fire |
| Walter P. Fuller moves to St. Petersburg | |
| A golf course is opened in the Bayboro harbor section, but closes soon after due to poor access to the location | |
| 1909 | Real estate spurt begins, lasts until 1913 |
| 1910 | The Independent newspaper begins offering free newspapers on days without sunshine |
| 1911 | Division bill creates Pinellas County from Hillsborough County |
| 1912 | 75 miles of St. Petersburg is paved with brick (1912-14) |
| 1912-14 H Walter Fuller is instrumental in extending roads and trolley service to his properties in the Jungle | |
| 1913 | Streetcar line reaches the Jungle |
| The Municipal Pier is built, replacing the Electric Pier | |
| 1914 | St. Louis Browns begin spring training here for just one season. |
| Train service into St. Petersburg begins - Tampa and Gulf Coast RR | |
| Tony Jannus pilots air service between St. Pete and Tampa, the first scheduled commercial airline in the world | |
| 1915 | Philadelphia Phillies begin spring training in St. Pete, continue training though 1918 |
| Walter P. Fuller graduates from University of North Carolina, returns to St. Petersburg | |
| Mirror Lake Library Opens, St. Petersburg's first library | |
| The Dixie Highway creates interstate traffic routes from Michigan to Miami | |
| 1916 | The Country Club at Davista (Jungle Country Club) golf course opens on January 1 |
| Al Lang becomes mayor, continues postion as president of the country club | |
| 1917 | 1917-22 a slow but steady rise in realty values in St. Petersburg. Nothing spectacular |
| 1918 | WWI ends |
| 1919 | Babe Ruth sets single season home run record (28) |
| The Pass-a-Grille bridge, the first bridge connecting the mainland with a key along the gulf, opened | |
| 1920 | Carl Fisher opened a stunning resort in Miami, the Flamingo Hotel. |
| Prohibition begins, January 17 | |
| Coffee Pot course (now the Sunset Golf and Country Club) opens on Snell Isle | |
| The Florida Land Boom of the 1920s started in the Miami area after Carl Graham Fisher (1874-1939), automobile industry pioneer and promoter and highway construction and real estate developer, launched a nationwide advertising campaign for beautiful and potentially profitable Miami Beach real estate | |
| 1921 | 1921-25 Boom years |
| Hurricane hits St. Petersburg with 110 mph wind, severe damage, slows land boom | |
| St. Petersburg Museum of History is founded | |
| Property developer George Merrick began selling lots in the west of Miami (Coral Gables). | |
| 1922 | Mar 4 Taylor Syndicate buys Pasadena land |
| Mar 26 large ad for Pasadena-on-the-Gulf | |
| fall - sale of stock in Gandy Bridge ensured its construction. Property values near bridge began to surge. a wild speculation began in properties along Fourth street north. The direct cause of the speculation was the stock sale which assured construction of Gandy Bridge. | |
| 1923 | 1923-25 6 million people come to Florida |
| Jun 14 - Allen-Fuller Corporation formed | |
| Jun 15 - walter p. fuller marries newspaper reporter eve alsford | |
| Dec 18 -Walter Hagen named president of Bear Creek Country Club in Pasadena | |
| Dec 18 - Pasadena has arrived full-page advertisement | |
| 1924 | Lakewood Country Club opens (renamed in 2000 to St. Petersburg Country Club) |
| Bear Creek Country Club opens (now Pasadena Yacht and Country Club) | |
| Gandy Bridge is opened, reducing travel time across the bay | |
| The Allen-Fuller Company purchases the golf course property and renames it the Jungle Club. | |
| July 3 - Al Lang off to NY to conclude Yank deal. July 17 receive signed contract from Yankees for spring training 1925 | |
| Oct - Davis Islands begins land sales | |
| Nov 30 - Jungle Country Club Clubhouse renovations including lockers and showers | |
| Nov -Coliseum opens downtown | |
| Gangplank and Jungle Prado (now Prada) shopping complex is built by landowner and developer Walter P. Fuller. Architects Henry L. Taylor and Roy Wakeling. | |
| Dec 7 Gangplank Speakeasy opens in Jungle Prado | |
| Dec 27 - George C. Allen dies, age 56, after minor surgery, son John Allen assumes Philadelphia office. | |
| 1925 | Willis Carrier introduces air-conditioning to the public at the Rivoli Theater in New York City. |
| Yankees begin spring training in St. Petersburg at Crescent Lake Park | |
| The Vinoy Park Hotel is built | |
| 2.5 million people arrive in florida | |
| Jan 3 DerbyLane Greyhound race track opens in St. Petersburg | |
| Jan 11 Jack Taylor announces Rolyat Hotel plans | |
| Mar 8 - Babe Ruth buys 2 lots in Pasadena golf section | |
| June 13 - plans announced for Jungle Hotel | |
| summer -Jack Taylor in New York office | |
| Oct 9 - John Allen buys home in Jungle | |
| Dec 13 - 20 horses in Jungle stable | |
| Dec 31 - Vinoy hotel opens. Henry L. Taylor architect. | |
| marked the zenith of the building boom. | |
| 1926 | Jan 18 - Rolyat Hotel Opens |
| Jungle Hotel opens on Feb. 10, 1926 | |
| Million Dollar Pier is constructed, replacing the Municipal Pier | |
| Feb 10 - Jungle Hotel opens, owned and operated by WP Fuller for 4 years | |
| CASA DE MUCHAS FLORES 1446 Park St. N. | |
| June 11 - major bootlegging bust in Pasadena-on the-Gulf | |
| around mid-year Chicago Outfit henchmen visit Jungle Hotel | |
| Thanksgiving - Fuller Flying Field opens - the first airfield in St. Petersburg and the third in the state. | |
| Taylor for the brief period before the blow up superbly used snob appeal and showmanship, had his course jammed, his hotel full, the bar packed three deep (according to Walter P. Fuller) | |
| 1927 | Dunedin Golf Club Opens |
| Don CeSar completed. | |
| 1928 | Completion of the 273 mile (Tampa to Miami) Tamiami Trail |
| WSUN radio begins broadcasting, some programming originating from the Jungle Hotel | |
| 1929 | On April 17, 1929, Babe Ruth married Claire Hodgson, his second wife, in New York City. |
| The Mediterranean fruit-fly added to the gravity of the local economic situation in 1929 by ravaging the citrus crop. | |
| Dec - Rolyat sold to Flynn Corp, golf course sold to Dixie Hollins | |
| 1930 | Jungle Country Club co-hosts PGA event - St. Petersburg open |
| Christmas day - casino boat s.s. monte carlo soft opening | |
| 1932 | Rolyat - Babe Ruth signed his 1932 Yankees contract officially in the lounge and a second time for photographs in the Plaza Mayor at the Rolyat Hotel. |
| Hotel Rolyat closed due to poor economic conditions. Instead of selling the land, the hotel's owners purchased a boys' school and moved it to the Rolyat, where it was located until 1952 | |
| 1933 | Prohibition overturned, December 5 |
| 1934 | Hunting dogs keep Jungle residents awake at night, police are called. |
| 1935 | Last year Babe Ruth is in spring training, playing with Boston Braves |
| Sunken Gardens opens in St. Petersburg | |
| 1940 | Jimmie Foxx hosts Baseball Players Golf Tournament (Jan 21) |
| 1941 | Jungle Hotel sold to American Hotel Corp. |
| 1942 | 1942-43 St. Petersburg is a training ground for more than 100,000 troops of the U.S. Coast Guard and the Army Air Force, many of them stay at the Jungle Hotel and on the golf course |
| Last year golf was played on Jungle course | |
| Yankees spring training held in Asbury Park, NJ due to WWII travel restrictions | |
| 1944 | The Jungle Hotel and Country Club closes on Sept. 11, 1944. "Signing of a contract (about $300,000) this year insured the transfer of the luxurious Jungle Club Hotel to the Admiral Farragut Academy," a school history recorded. |
| 1945 | WWII ends |
| 1952 | Planning begins for model community Azaleaville on former Jungle Golf Course |
| 1953 | Charles Duke, future astronaut who would become one of the 12 men to walk on the moon, graduates from Admiral Farragut Academy as valedictorian |
| Two peacocks, Gertrude and Heathcliff, move to Park Street in the Jungle Prada neighborhood, today their family has grown to around 50. | |
| 1954 | Sunshine Skyway Bridge opens |
| 1958 | Model community Azaleaville completed with 1000 homes on former Jungle Golf Course |
| 1960 | Howard Frankland Bridge completed |
| 1961 | Alan Shepard, Admiral Farragut Academy class of 1941, becomes the first American in space |
| 1970 | Over 50% of Florida homes now have air conditioning |
| 1971 | Disney World's Magic Kingdom opens |
| Admiral Farragut Academy '41 Alan Shepard hits two golf balls on the moon, the second ball traveled over a mile. | |
| 1972 | Admiral Farragut Academy graduate Charles Duke becomes the youngest man to walk on the moon and drives 22 miles in lunar rover. |
| 1973 | OPEC Embargo curtails US tourism industry |
| 1990 | Florida Suncoast Dome (now Tropicana Field) opens |
| 1992 | Jungle Hotel receives historic designation on St. Petersburg Register of Historic Places |
| 2000 | Lakewood Country Club is renamed St. Petersburg Country Club |
| 2001 | Wikipedia is launched with headquarters in St. Petersburg - moves to San Francisco in 2008 |
| 2003 | Narvaez landing site - and the adjacent Tocobaga mounds – was added to the National Register of Historic Places |
| 2006 | Moon rock donated to Admiral Farragut Academy, now on display at the entrance to the main building. |
| 2007 | Sunset Hotel receives historic designation on St. Petersburg Register of Historic Places |
| 2011 | Legoland Florida opens |
| Mysterious safe at Jungle Prada, possibly belonging to Al Capone, is opened at the former location of prohibition era speakeasy, the Gangplank | |
| 2019 | The Jungle Country Club History Project begins |
