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A post office named "Cedar Key" was established on Atsena Otie Key in 1845. The Florida legislature chartered the "City of Atsena Otie" in 1859. [3] Cedar Key became an important port, shipping lumber and naval stores harvested on the mainland. By 1860, two mills on Atsena Otie Key were producing "cedar" slats for shipment to northern pencil ...
Atsena Otie Key is a barrier island and ghost town one-half mile offshore of Cedar Key, Florida. Atsena Otie was the original site of the town of Cedar Key, and in the present day includes a walking trail, swimming area, and ruins of the Eberhard Faber mill. The property is part of the Cedar Key National Wildlife Refuge and is managed by the U ...
The Island Hotel (also known as Parsons and Hale's General Store) is a historic building in Cedar Key, Florida, located at 224 2nd Street. On November 23, 1984, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places .
In the late 1880s, two major hurricanes forced residents to adapt by relocating their community, formerly on Atsena Otie, an island offshore of present-day Cedar Key. So maybe it’s Old Florida ...
Barrier island Casey Key: Sarasota Barrier island Captiva Island: 4 square miles (10 km 2) Lee: Barrier island Cayo Costa: 2,506 acres (1,014 ha) Lee Barrier island Cedar Key: Levy One of the Cedar Keys Chokoloskee Island: 0.23 square miles (0.60 km 2) Collier In the Ten Thousand Islands City Island: 0.7 square miles (1.8 km 2) Volusia
CEDAR KEY — Two days on from devastating winds churning up a record-breaking storm surge, the cavalry kicked into high gear Saturday on Cedar Key to help the island cut off from power and ...
Starting as D Street in Cedar Key, State Road 24 skips over Jackson Island and Sunset Island before making its way across the mainland of northwestern Florida. Once on the mainland, the road runs between the Cedar Keys National Wildlife Refuge and Waccasassa Bay Preserve State Park just before a fork in the road with Levy County Road 347 .
A history of hurricanes. Cedar Key, located amid wildlife and nature preserves about 50 miles southwest of Gainesville, has a long history with storms and hurricanes.