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Construction of Port Canaveral for military and commercial purposes was started in July 1950 and dedicated on November 4, 1953. [18] Congress approved the construction of a deep-water port in 1929, half a century after it was first petitioned by the U.S. Navy in 1878. It is now the major deep-water port of Central Florida. [19]
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The beach is currently open to the public daily between 6:00 am to 6:00 pm. Access to the beach may be closed periodically [3] in preparation for rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station or the Kennedy Space Center, which are just south of Playalinda Beach. During launches, the sections that are not closed are a popular ...
Because Port Canaveral interrupts this movement of sand, each year about 200,000 cubic yards (150,000 m 3) of sand builds up on the beaches located 1 to 2 miles (1.6 to 3.2 km) north of the port's jetties, and sand erodes from the beaches 10 to 15 miles (16 to 24 km) south of the jetties.
Bimini is an unincorporated community in Flagler County, Florida, United States, located west of Bunnell on State Road 100. The community is part of the Deltona–Daytona Beach–Ormond Beach, FL metropolitan statistical area .
A 27-year-old in Pompano Beach and a 56-year-old in Hollywood were killed in a two-day period in April 2022, [176] [177] a viral video from April 2023 showed a Brightline locomotive colliding with a trailer of luxury cars, [178] and there was another fatality on September 28, 2023 just days after the line was extended to Orlando.
An annual celebration was started on October 9, 1990, The Patriot's Day Parade in honor of the last naval battle of the American Revolution that was fought off the Cape Canaveral coast in 1783. [6] In 2000, The Washington Post reported that the city's divorce rate was the highest in the country, 22%. It was the same rate in 2018. [11]