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St. George is a barrier island 28 miles (45 km) long and 1 mile (2 km) wide at its widest point. St. George Island is adjacent to Cape St. George Island, also known as Little St. George Island. It is connected to the mainland at Eastpoint, Florida by the 4-mile (6.4 km) long St. George Island Bridge over Apalachicola Bay.
Evergreen Plantation (Wallace, Louisiana) / 30.02722°N 90.64056°W / 30.02722; -90.64056. Evergreen Plantation is a plantation located on the west side of the Mississippi River in St. John the Baptist Parish, near Wallace, Louisiana, and along Louisiana Highway 18. The main house was constructed mostly in 1790, and renovated to its ...
The Leon County Florida 1860 Agricultural Census shows that the Evergreen Hills Plantation had the following: Improved Land: 3600 acres (15 km 2) Unimproved Land: 3100 acres (13 km 2) Cash value of plantation: US$53,600. Cash value of farm implements/machinery: $900. Cash value of farm animals: $11,460. Number of persons enslaved: 135.
The plantation and community were eventually absorbed by Birmingham, a city that Mudd helped establish after the war. 94000690. Atkins' Ridge. Greensboro. 32°41′27″N 87°34′36″W / . 32.69073°N 87.57666°W. / 32.69073; -87.57666 ( Atkins' Ridge) Hale. Built for John Atkins, a native of Virginia, in 1840.
An agricultural company made the surprise decision Tuesday to cancel a project to build a massive grain terminal in a historic Black town in Louisiana's “Cancer Alley," a heavily industrialized ...
Captiva, Florida. / 26.51806°N 82.19111°W / 26.51806; -82.19111. Captiva is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, Florida, United States. It is located on Captiva Island. As of the 2020 census, the population was 318, [ 4] down from 583 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers ...
The Ten Thousand Islands are located near the south end of the Florida peninsula on the Gulf Coast, west of the Everglades Indian Key Pass - Ten Thousand Islands. The Ten Thousand Islands are a chain of islands and mangrove islets off the coast of southwest Florida, between Cape Romano (at the south end of Marco Island) and the mouth of the Lostmans River.
278018 [ 1] Website. babcockranch.com. Babcock Ranch is a planned community located in southeastern Charlotte County and northeastern Lee County, Florida, consisting of approximately 17,000 acres (6,900 ha). [ 2] The community was named after Edward Vose Babcock, a lumber baron and former mayor of Pittsburgh, who purchased the land in 1914.