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Introduction ...

So far, we found very little information about Bryant. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Bryant to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Bryant, please Contact Us.

We have a couple of goals for our Gazetteer:

  • That it be a tool which helps us with planning our trips.
  • We're trying to shape our Gazetteer as a tool to help us understand the community in which our ancestors lived, the community that was part of their daily lives.
  • On our trips, we try to visit those places where our ancestors left their footprints.

By learning about Bryant (and the surrounding area) during the time that our ancestors lived, we hope to have a better understanding of both their community and its relationship to their lifes. We hope that this tool helps to give us an insight into their world.

As we add data and organize our Gazetteer to help with our family research, we will be adding to this our Genealogical Helper for Bryant. While we don't have information that is specific to any given person or family, we intend to expand our understanding about where and how people lived.

Name Variations for Bryant ...

When searching records, keep in mind that names and their spelling can change over time. Our sources include documents like maps, railroad schedules, Travel, Express and Shipping Guides. Many of these documents date from the 1800's and it's common to find spelling differences.

Although we can't give a definitive list, hopefully the following will give you a feel for the variations that might have occurred.

Bryant was originally named Azucar

If you have information about these names (such as the reason for the change, date of change, the origin of the name), please Contact Us.

Neighboring Counties ...

When searching for family records, we have frequently made the mistake of not checking the neighboring counties.

For example, we have great-grandparents who lived in the southeast corner of their home county. During their lives, most hospitals were in the next county to the east. Almost all of the nearby churches and cemeteries were in the county to the south.

So when searching for records, we had our best success by looking in neighboring counties instead of the county in which they lived:  their home county contained property and probate records; the county to the east contained birth and death records; the county to the south contained their burial records. If we hadn't included the neighboring counties, we would have missed many valuable sources of information.

If you're in a similar situation, we hope that the following information helps.

Although our information shows that the community of Bryant is historic, it would have been located within present day Palm Beach County.

To see how the shape of Florida's counties have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

The following counties adjoin and form the boundaries of Palm Beach County: Broward, Glades, Hendry, Martin & Okeechobee.

Below are the counties that are near Bryant. For each of these counties, we show a sample of those communities that are closest to Bryant:

  • Palm Beach County     (The home county of Bryant)
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bryant, with the one closest to Bryant listed first.
    • Canal Point
      (Less than 2 miles to the northwest)
    • Pelican Lake
      (2 miles [3.2 km] to the south)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Pelican Lake. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pelican Lake
      • Pelican Lake is located in Palm Beach County
      • Pelican Lake has also been known as:
      • Pelican Bay
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Pelican Lake
      • From Bryant to Pelican Lake
    • Fremd Village - Padgett Island
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Fremd Village
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Fremd Village have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fremd Village
      • Fremd Village is located in Palm Beach County
    • Pahokee
      (3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
    • Sand Cut ‑ Historic
      (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Sand Cut. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Sand Cut
      • Sand Cut is located in Palm Beach County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Sand Cut
      • From Bryant to Sand Cut
    • Kraemer ‑ Historic
      (9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Kraemer. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Kraemer
      • Kraemer is located in Palm Beach County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Kraemer
      • From Bryant to Kraemer
    • Torry Island ‑ Historic
      (10 miles [16.1 km] to the southwest)
    • Belle Glade
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the south)
    • Chosen ‑ Historic
      (11 miles [17.7 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Chosen. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chosen
      • Chosen is located in Palm Beach County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Chosen
      • From Bryant to Chosen
    • Belle Glade Camp
      (13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
    • Bean City
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Bean City. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bean City
      • Bean City is located in Palm Beach County
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Bean City
      • From Bryant to Bean City
    • Ritta ‑ Historic
      (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
      • Note: We haven't been able to verify our GPS coordinates for Ritta. Although the coordinates have been estimated, they should be in the vicinity.<3>
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ritta
      • Ritta is located in Palm Beach County
      • Ritta has also been known as:
      • Ritta Island
      • Google driving directions:
      • From your current location to Ritta
      • From Bryant to Ritta
  • Glades County
  • Hendry County
  • Martin County
  • Okeechobee County
    • The following are listed by their distance from Bryant, with the one closest to Bryant listed first.
    • Taylor Creek
      (27 miles [43.5 km] to the northwest)
    • Cypress Quarters
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)
      • Note: The GPS coordinates that we are using for Cypress Quarters have been provided by the GNIS.<4> The coordinates still need to be verified.
      • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cypress Quarters
      • Cypress Quarters is located in Okeechobee County
    • Okeechobee
      (30 miles [48.3 km] to the northwest)

For an expanded list of the communities that are closest to Bryant, see our County-by-County Page for Bryant.

Cemeteries Near Bryant ...

Below are cemeteries that are in the vicinity of Bryant.

This is a new section and is likely to have errors. If you find an error, such as a missing cemetery or we have the wrong name, please let us know. If you know of them, we would also appreciate learning about previous or alternate names.

Although we don't have the information ourselves, if you need information about a burial or interment, photos, transcripts, how to contact the cemetery or local authorities, please visit our list of websites on our Genealogy Helper Page for Bryant - one of the links might be able to help.

If not found below, our Cemetery List for Bryant covers a larger area, with the cemeteries listed in alphabetical order.

The following cemeteries are listed based on their distance from Bryant, with the one closest to Bryant listed first.

We've also created an expanded list of communities that existed in the 1890's and were located in the area around Bryant. See our List of 1890's Communities around Bryant.

Newspapers Published in Bryant ...

An ongoing effort between the Library of Congress and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has resulted in the National Digital Newspaper Program (NDNP).

To share their results, the partnership has created the Chronicling America website. The goal of this partnership is to assemble a database about the current and historic newspapers of the United States. This includes a growing collection of scanned images from selected papers. All of it available to the public on their website.

Using information that we've taken from the Chronicling America website, we've identified 16 newspapers that have been published in the area around Bryant.

Although we're unaware of any newspapers that were published in the immediate area of Bryant, there are papers which were published within 29 miles [46.7 km]<5>. A list of those papers, sorted by paper name, can be found on the Extended Newspaper List for Bryant.

Websites to Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

When we do our genealogical research, we start with the websites from Cyndi's List, FamilySearch and Genealogy Trails. These professional and volunteer websites offer the information directly or else point to where you can find it. Their information is open to everyone.

To help you get started, the following links will take you to the pages that are relevant to Bryant:

Footnotes ...

<1>We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Bryant, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<3>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.
<4>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<5>Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Bryant) to Point B.Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Bryant. The point we use is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 26.8493, Longitude: -80.6154    
<6>The Find-a-Grave website is an excellent research tool with information about a cemetery's location and interments. They also offer a forum for their members which can provide additional help. More information about Find-a-Grave can be found on their website: findagrave.com.