PLANT CITY: ITS ORIGIN AND HISTORY pg. 272 ....On visiting county schools , after becoming superintendent, Dr. Buchholz was distressed by the incompetence of the teachers. He immediately intitiated a teacher training program at Bloomingdale School, which led to the establishment of what were called normal schools. The first institute was so well received that later sessions had to be moved from the school to the Presbyterian Church. When enrollment increased from twenty-two teachers that first year to fifty-four, the normal school was transferred first to Plant City, then to St. Petersburg. Among the seventy-seven teachers enrolled for the 1897 institute were a number of Plant City teachers,including Professor and Mrs. E.G. Burney, Tom Beaty, T.M. Venning, Charles Shannon, Fred Robinson, Irvin Walden, Katie Young, Hattie Hendrix, and J.E. Knight.......