Mrs. Culp Revisited: Oct. 20, 1937

A creek gets the attention of Tampa's leaders

Mrs. Culp picked up a prescription for her stomach medicine — $1.50 at Dritz Drug Store — and washed her hair today. She makes note of work at Spanishtown Creek, which ran through the Hyde Park subdivision at the time.

“The men started to work on the Creek — cleaning up first,” she wrote.

Spanishtown was the site of one of Tampa’s original settlements. By…