Bill Freehan, later an all-star catcher for Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers, first played football as a member of a team at a former Catholic high school in the neighborhood.
[1] The Euclid St. Paul's Neighborhood began as an orange grove in 1912[1] in a part of town most residents regarded as "out in the country."
Co-owned by Mary Eaton, the founder of the St. Petersburg Memorial Historical Society, the 20-acre (81,000 m2) grove was bounded by MLK (then known as Euclid Blvd.)
The homeowner's association at the time designated that homes along 15th Avenue were to be worth at least $6,000 (a hefty price tag for the 1920s) and contain a minimum of 6 rooms exclusive of bathrooms, closets and porches.
[citation needed] During St. Petersburg's land boom of the 1920s, Euclid Place, as it was originally called, continued to grow.
Bill Freehan, who was a freshman on the football team the final year that boys were at the high school, went on to become an all-star catcher for Major League Baseball's Detroit Tigers.
In 2005, the city Neighborhood Partnership program awarded the association $3,375 to plant 29 trees (crape myrtle, magnolia, oak, maple) along rights of way.
[3] Starting in 2005, neighborhood volunteers have organized a "ghost tour" of Euclid St. Paul in which guides lead people to various homes where fictional spooky stories are told by costumed hosts.