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The Venice Seaboard Air Line Railway Station (also known as the Venice Depot) is a historic former Seaboard Air Line Railroad depot located at 303 East Venice Avenue in Venice, Florida. It is the southern trailhead of the Legacy Trail , which runs along the railroad's former right of way.
As part of the $2.1 million restoration project, a brick waiting room was built west of the tracks, incorporating two arches from the Newburyport YMCA building, which had burned in 1987. [9] [1] The building was complete by 1998, but it and the small coffee shop inside did not open until February 11, 2002. [1]
Venice Municipal Airport (IATA: VNC, ICAO: KVNC, FAA LID: VNC) is a city managed public-use airport located two miles (3.2 km) south of the central business district of Venice, a city in Sarasota County, Florida, United States
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Venice was first known as "Horse and Chaise" because of a carriage-like tree formation that marked the spot for fishermen. [3] During the 1870s, Robert Rickford Roberts established a homestead near a bay that bears his name today, Roberts Bay. [14] Francis H. "Frank" Higel, originally from France, arrived in Venice in 1883 with his wife and six ...
The original range lights at Newburyport Harbor were maintained by private subscriptions. By 1872 Congress had appropriated funds to establish publicly maintained range lights after one of the previous pair was destroyed in a storm. [3] Newburyport's front range light is a circular structure, with a steel plate exterior, that is 35 feet (11 m ...
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In 1858, Pius IX moved Florida into a new Apostolic Vicariate of Florida, [12] which in 1870 was converted into the Diocese of St. Augustine, which included the Venice area. [ 13 ] After the end of the American Civil War in 1865, Catholic missionaries from dioceses in Savannah , St. Augustine, and Tampa , began visiting the Venice area. [ 14 ]