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Sarasota Bay is a lagoon located off the central west coast of Florida in the United States.Though no significant single stream of freshwater enters the bay, with a drainage basin limited to 150 square miles in Manatee and Sarasota counties, [1] it is generally treated as an estuary, with three "passes" or inlets giving access from the Gulf of Mexico.
History of Florida. The earliest known identification of the area known today as Sarasota, Florida, was identified on a sheepskin Spanish map from 1763 with the word "Zarazote" written over the location of present-day Sarasota and Bradenton. [1] A 1776 British map by Bernard Romans lists a "Boca Sarasota" in the local area.
Sarasota (/ ˌsærəˈsoʊtə /) is a city in and the county seat of Sarasota County, Florida, United States. It is located in Southwest Florida, the southern end of the Greater Tampa Bay Area, and north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
33,000 (2014) Toll. None. Location. John Ringling Causeway (also known as Ringling Bridge or Gil Waters Bridge[3]) is a causeway that extends past the Sarasota Bay, from Sarasota to St. Armands Key and Lido Key. The 65-foot-tall (20 m) bridge, built in 2003, is a segmental box girder bridge running from Sarasota to Bird Key.
Website. ringling.org. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is the official state art museum of Florida, [2] located in Sarasota, Florida. [3] It was established in 1927 as the legacy of Mable Burton Ringling and John Ringling for the people of Florida. Florida State University assumed governance of the museum in 2000.
Website. www.scgov.net. Sarasota County is a county located in Southwest Florida. At the 2020 US census, the population was 434,006. [ 2 ] Its county seat is Sarasota [ 3 ] and its largest city is North Port. Sarasota County is part of the North Port–Bradenton–Sarasota, FL metropolitan statistical area.
Ca' d'Zan. Cà d'Zan (/ kɑːˌdə.zɑːn /) is a Mediterranean revival residence in Sarasota, Florida, adjacent to Sarasota Bay. Cà d'Zan was built in the mid-1920s as the winter retreat of the American circus mogul, entrepreneur, and art collector John Ringling and his wife Mable Burton Ringling. The name Cà d'Zan means "House of John" in ...
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