On June 23, 1938, "Marine Studios" (the name "Marineland of Florida" would later be adopted) began operations with its main attraction a bottlenose dolphin. Construction and engineering were carried out Arthur Franklin Perry Co. įinancing and construction presented challenges as Marineland was the first attempt at capturing and sustaining sea creatures. Ultimately, the land that is today Marineland was broken up over the years into smaller parcels. The well-connected Blackborne, grandson of Sir Richard Levett, Lord Mayor of London, never settled his grant (nor even visited Florida), and eventually Blackborne's plantation was regranted to John Graham, a Georgia Loyalist fleeing the Revolutionary War. The site of Marineland is within a 20,000-acre (8,100 ha) grant given to London barrister Levett Blackborne in 1767. Augustine, eventually known as the town of Marineland. A site was selected on the Atlantic Ocean south of St. Douglas Burden, Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, Sherman Pratt, and Ilya Andreyevich Tolstoy (grandson of Leo Tolstoy) as an oceanarium that could be used to film marine life.
Moby the Whale gets a dental checkup, 1964.
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