History

Hello, my name is Andrew Cevasco and I am going into seventh grade (over the summer of 2010) at Admiral Farragut Academy. AFA is located in St. Petersburg, Fl. This is a private military college prep school. AFA was opened in 1945, and before that it was a popular Country club called the Jungle Country Club Hotel. The hotel opened in 1925 and closed in 1944. The original Admiral Farragut Academy campus was in Pine Beach New Jersey but it was closed in 1994, now mostly all the building are demolished, the only building that remains is the infirmary. In the early 1990's Farragut was an all-boys academy but started accepting female students for the first time. When Farragut was a Hotel, Al Capone and Babe Ruth stayed there. AFA is most notable for graduating two of the twelve men that walked on the moon, Alan Shepard and Charles Duke.