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The island community of roughly 1,300 residents suffered some of the worst storm-surge damage in Sarasota County and Southwest Florida after Milton made landfall about 20 miles north on Siesta Key ...
In Manasota Key, on the western coast of Florida just south of Sarasota, Milton's storm surge sent massive boulders and at least one boat up the beaches and hurled them into waterfront buildings ...
"Manasota Key" refers to an 11-mile-long (18 km) peninsula (transformed into a barrier island by the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway) that continues north into Sarasota County. The name originated from Manasota Lumber Company, a Maryland-based timber company with a sawmill in Woodmere from 1918 to 1923. [5] Manasota is a portmanteau of manatee and ...
It then runs north along Manasota Key to the Sarasota County line. It continues into Sarasota County as Manasota Key Road. [3] Beach Road east of Gulf Boulevard was previously designated as a discontinuous segment of SR 776 before being relinquished to county control in the 1980s. [11] The route came into existence in 1927, when the road's ...
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The Chadwick family, who owned large amounts of property on Manasota Key, charged a 50 cent toll to cross the bridge. [2] The bridges later came under control of Charlotte County in the 1930s. [3] By the late 1940s, the original east bridge was in bad condition. The bridge was rebuilt in the early 1950s largely using the same pilings.
A Spanish galleon (left) firing its cannons at a Dutch warship (right). Cornelis Verbeeck, c. 1618–1620 A Spanish galleon Carracks, galleon (center/right), square rigged caravel (below), galley and fusta (galliot) depicted by D. João de Castro on the "Suez Expedition" (part of the Portuguese Armada of 72 ships sent against the Ottoman fleet anchor in Suez, Egypt, in response to its entry in ...
Manasota Key is impassable south of the 7800 block of Manasota Key Road in Englewood. There have been multiple reports of flooded vehicles near Middle Beach, prompting authorities to remind ...