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On Tony's Mound, the main mound measuring 110 feet by 83 feet, they found sugarberries, banyan, mulberries, papaya, saw palmetto and other small plants. Extending from the north side of the mound, there was a "canal-like depression 600 feet long, flanked by spoil banks or raised pathways 30 feet in width."
The building housing Captain Tony's Saloon has a history as colorful as the town of Key West itself. When first constructed in 1852, 428 Greene Street was an ice house that doubled as the city morgue. In the 1890s, it housed a wireless telegraph station. The telegraph's most important utilization came in 1898, during the Spanish–American War.
Oysters on the half shell: From Sebastian or Florida west coast ($13 for 6, $25 for 12); blue points from Norwalk Islands, Connecticut ($15 for 6, $25 for 12); great whites from Barnstable ...
A 1999 study commissioned by the U.S. Department of Justice's National Institute of Justice estimated that parts marking reduced the rate of professional car theft (with "between 33 and 158 fewer cars" being "stolen by professional thieves per 100,000 cars that were marked between 1987 and 1995"), inhibiting chop-shop operations. [2]
Barbara Petersen, executive director of the Florida Center for Government Accountability, has defended Florida's Sunshine Law through six governors' administrations, going back to the 1990s.
Chop shop is a slang phrase with various uses including an illegal location or business which disassembles stolen automobiles for the purpose of selling them as parts. Chop shop may also refer to: Chop Shop, a Canadian docusoap TV series directed by Ziad Touma about a "rock 'n' roll" hairdressers; Chop Shop, a 2007 American film
In 1832, blue stone was quarried in nearby Toodlum (now Veteran). At one time, 2,000 men were employed in quarrying, dressing and shipping about one and a half million dollars’ worth of blue stone annually from Glasco, Malden, and Saugerties. Blue stone was used for curbing, paving, door sills, and window sills: much of it in New York City. [10]