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In 1844, he became the Collector of Customs for the port of Cedar Key, as well as for Tampa, Florida. 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.
Florida State Truck Route 24 in Gainesville, Florida was established in order to divert trucks form the congested downtown areas of Gainesville. [4] The route begins at the Interstate 75 at Exit 384, and follows that route south, having also joined Truck Route 26 which ran southbound along I-75 since Exit 387.
Looking towards Cedar Key from Atsena Otie Key. 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.
In 1853 the Florida Legislature chartered the Florida Railroad to build a 5 ft (1,524 mm) [2] gauge rail line from Fernandina (near the mouth of the St. Mary's River) to Tampa, Florida, with a branch to Cedar Key. The president and chief stockholder of the Florida Railroad was U.S. Senator David Levy Yulee. Yulee decided to complete the line to ...
Cedar Key partnered with the University of Florida and was awarded funding in 2022. The results of the flooding vulnerability assessment were presented at a workshop to the Cedar Key community.
Rosewood is an unincorporated community in Levy County, Florida, United States, located just off State Road 24, approximately 1 mile (1.6 km) northeast of Sumner and 9 miles (14 km) northeast of Cedar Key. [1] An African-American community prospered there in the early 20th century, until a white mob destroyed it in the 1923 Rosewood massacre.
Named for the trees that once covered the islands, Cedar Key, Florida, is located about four miles out in the Gulf of Mexico and connected to the mainland by a single road that crosses over four ...
The state, as part of its disaster planning, contracts with the nonprofit. ... 2024 in Cedar Key, Florida. Workers like him are not being allowed on the island en masse because many of the island ...