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Fisher Island and South Beach seen from Crandon in August 2006 The Atlantic Ocean seen from the Crandon Park beach in February 2008. The land Crandon Park occupies was once part of the largest coconut plantation in the United States, operated by William John Matheson and his heirs. In 1940 the Matheson family donated 808.8 acres (327.3 ha) of ...
Also known as the Estill-Parrish House 12000563 Hunter-Dawson House: August 28, 2012: New Madrid: New Madrid: Also known as the Hunter-Dawson State Historic Site 70000348 William B. Sappington House: January 21, 1970 Arrow Rock vicinity Saline: Also known as Prairie Park 79003205 White Haven: June 23, 1986: Grantwood Village: St. Louis
Kingsley's house is the oldest plantation house still standing in Florida, and the solidly-built village of slave cabins is one of the best preserved in the United States. It is also "the oldest surviving antebellum Spanish Colonial plantation in the United States." [2]
One of the biggest attractions at Omni Amelia Island Resort are the golf courses. The resort boasts two championship courses. The Oak Marsh course, was Pete Dye's design, and winds through salt marshes and heritage oaks draped with spanish moss. The challenging Long Point course, designed by Tom Fazio, includes eight water hazards that must be ...
[3] [4] It is separated into three major basins and two associated watersheds for Lake George and the Ocklawaha River, all managed by the St. Johns River Water Management District. Although Florida was the location of the first permanent European settlement in what would become the United States, much of Florida remained an undeveloped frontier ...
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Map of Biscayne National Park [3]. Biscayne National Park comprises 172,971 acres (270.3 sq mi; 700.0 km 2) in Miami-Dade County in southeast Florida. [1] Extending from just south of Key Biscayne southward to just north of Key Largo, the park includes Soldier Key, the Ragged Keys, Sands Key, Elliott Key, Totten Key and Old Rhodes Key, as well as smaller islands that form the northernmost ...
Hamilton Disston (August 23, 1844 – April 30, 1896) [1] was an American industrialist and real-estate developer who purchased 4 million acres (16,000 km²) of Florida land in 1881, an area larger than the state of Connecticut, and reportedly the most land ever purchased by a single person in world history.