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View from Nokomis Beach, outside the Nokomis CDP, early on a summer morning. Nokomis is an unincorporated town in Sarasota County and a census-designated place (CDP) along the Gulf Coast of Florida, United States, located south of Osprey and just north of Venice. The town has access to the coast through Nokomis Public Beach and Casey Key.
State Road 681 (SR 681), also known as the Venice Connector, [2] is a four-mile-long (6.4 km) spur of Interstate 75 near Nokomis, Florida. The road operated as the southern terminus of the expressway in the early 1980s before Interstate 75 extended south to Naples .
The area that is now Venice was originally the home of Paleo-Indians, with evidence of their presence dating back to 8200 BCE. [11] As thousands of years passed, and the climate changed and some of the Pleistocene animals that the Indians hunted became extinct, the descendants of the Paleo-Indians found new ways to create stone and bone weapons to cope with their changing environment.
The Higel and Curry families chose the name "Venice" for their community post office, located south of Shakett Creek on what is now Portia Street in the unincorporated community of Nokomis. The Seaboard Air Line (SAL) was the first railroad to expand its network into Sarasota County , Florida, extending tracks first to Sarasota in 1903 and ...
WDIZ (1320 AM) is a commercial radio station broadcasting an oldies format. Licensed to Venice, Florida, United States, the station serves the Sarasota metropolitan area.WDIZ is owned by iHeartMedia, Inc. and calls itself "Oldies 1320", Venice's Real Oldies.
Venice Gardens is a census-designated place (CDP) in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The population was 3,402 at the 2020 census, down from 7,104 at the 2010 census. [ 5 ] It is part of the North Port – Bradenton – Sarasota, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area .
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Legacy Trail at Shade Avenue in Sarasota where the spur to School Avenue splits from the main trail. The Legacy Trail begins in Venice at the Historic Venice Train Depot.At the depot, which now operates as a bus terminal for Breeze Transit, the trail connects to the Venetian Waterway Park (which runs south along the Intracoastal Waterway to the Gulf of Mexico).