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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.
Waters and Elsa Burrows Historic District is a U.S. historic district in Osprey, Florida south of Sarasota in Sarasota County. It includes the Bay Preserve at Osprey on Little Sarasota Bay. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 3, 2012. [1] The property was next to one owned by Bertha Palmer.
The Villages was the top-selling master-planned community in the United States in 2017 and one of only four communities to sell more than 1,000 homes. [19] The Villages also claimed the title of the best-selling master-planned community of the decade, with 24,440 new home sales from 2010 through 2019. [20]
Location of Sarasota County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sarasota County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
Wellen Park (formerly known as the West Villages [1]) is a planned community located in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The majority of Wellen Park is located along US 41 and River Road within the city limits of North Port , with some portions of the community extending into unincorporated Sarasota County.
Sarasota saw extensive development during the Florida Land Boom. [48] The population of the area around Sarasota grew from 3,000 in 1920 to over 15,000 by 1926. By the late 1920s, Sarasota was the largest city on the Gulf Coast south of St. Petersburg and Sarasota County was one of the wealthiest counties in the United States. [49]
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Sarasota, Florida has 71 structures that have been placed on the National Register of Historic Places. [1] Several additional historic buildings have been proposed for listing. American National Bank Building