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Lakes Regional Park (often called Lakes Park) is a 279-acre public park located along Gladiolus Drive just south of Fort Myers, Florida. It opened on April 21, 1984, and is operated by the Lee County Department of Parks and Recreation. The park was named after its main feature: 158 acres of man-made freshwater lakes.
The park consists of three lakes: the main one is Clove Lake, which runs off to Martling Lake, and then to Brooks Lake. The Staten Island Expressway, part of Interstate 278, built in 1964, goes through a cleft just south of the park, connecting the then newly built Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge in the east with the Goethals Bridge in the west. When ...
The Lee County Civic Center is a 7,800-seat multi-purpose arena in North Fort Myers, Florida, US. [1] It opened in 1978. It hosts local sporting events and concerts. It has been the home of the Winternats since 1990, one of the oldest major Radio Controlled Car racing events in the world.
Fort Myers Beach: 41: Mound Key Site: August 12, 1970 : Address Restricted: Fort Myers Beach: Part of the Archeological Resources of the Caloosahatchee Region MPS: 42: Murphy-Burroughs House: Murphy-Burroughs House
County Road 876 (CR 876) is a major county road in Lee County, Florida spanning 22.92 miles (36.89 km). It is major east-west thoroughfare just south of Fort Myers city limits before becoming a north-south route through Lehigh Acres and Buckingham.
The Terry Park Ballfield (also known as the Park T. Pigott Memorial Stadium) is a historic site [3] in Fort Myers, Florida, United States. The park is named after the family who donated the land in the 1920s. For years the stadium hosted Major League Baseball spring training, as well as a dozen years of Florida State League baseball.
Zoombezi Bay (/ z uː m ˌ b iː z i ˈ b eɪ /) is a 22.7-acre (9.2 ha) water park owned by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium near Powell, Ohio just north of Columbus. The park sits on the site of the former Wyandot Lake Adventure Park, [1] which was purchased by the Columbus Zoo and Aquarium in 2006. Zoombezi Bay opened to the public on May 26 ...
The population of Fort Myers City had been 575 citizens in 1890. By 1930, it had climbed to 9,082. [44] In 1947, Mina Edison deeded Seminole Lodge to the city of Fort Myers, in memory of her late husband and for the enjoyment of the public. By 1988, the adjacent Henry Ford winter estate was purchased by the city and opened for public tours in 1990.