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The suffix "-ville," from the French word for "city" is common for town and city names throughout the United States. Many originally French place names, possibly hundreds, in the Midwest and Upper West were replaced with directly translated English names once American settlers became locally dominant (e.g. "La Petite Roche" became Little Rock ...
Fernandina Beach is a city in northeastern Florida and the county seat of Nassau County, Florida, United States.It is the northernmost city on Florida's Atlantic coast, situated on Amelia Island, and is one of the municipalities comprising Greater Jacksonville (formally the Jacksonville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area).
Hobe Sound is the anglicized form of the name of a village of the Jaega, a Native American group that lived in the area before European settlement. The Spanish recorded the village name as "Jobe" or "Jove" . [6] Jonathan Dickinson, whose party was shipwrecked near the town in 1696, spelled the name of the village "Hoe-bey". [7]
There are also many names from Native American words that sound strange to English ears, such as Okeefenokee, Estiffanulga or Okahumpka, or the many bizarre Keys and island names such as Beercan ...
Amelia City: 1 Nassau: 32034 Amelia Island: 1 Nassau: 32034 Amelia Island Plantation: 1 Nassau: American Beach: 1 Nassau: 32034 Amherst: 1 Brevard Anastasia: 1 St. Johns: 32084 Anclote: 2 Pasco, Pinellas: 33589 Anclote Acres: 1 Pasco: 33531 Andalusia: 1 Flagler: 32010 Andover: 1 Miami-Dade Andover Golf Estates: 1 Miami-Dade: 33169 Andover Lakes ...
The largest cities in Florida (population over 200,000) utilize the strong mayor–council form of government. The mayor typically appoints a chief administrative officer who performs the same function as a city manager [ 12 ] which is utilized by 70% of Florida's municipalities, whose mayors are primarily symbolic and ceremonial.
Fort Caroline was an attempted French colonial settlement in Florida, located on the banks of the St. Johns River in present-day Duval County.It was established under the leadership of René Goulaine de Laudonnière on 22 June 1564, following King Charles IX's enlisting of Jean Ribault and his Huguenot settlers to stake a claim in French Florida ahead of Spain.
Pages in category "Populated coastal places in Florida on the Atlantic Ocean" The following 113 pages are in this category, out of 113 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .