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Wild Turkey Strand Preserve is a 3,137 acre area of protected lands in Lee County, Florida.The preserve is off State Route south of Lehigh Acres. It includes part of the former Buckingham Army Airfield, a World War II-era training base.
The city of Jacksonville, Florida operates the largest urban park system in the United States, providing facilities and services at more than 337 locations on more than 80,000 acres (320 km 2) located throughout the city. [1]
Lehigh Acres is a census-designated place (CDP) in Lee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 Census the population was 114,287, up from 86,784 at the 2010 census. Lehigh Acres is part of the Cape Coral-Fort Myers, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area .
County Road 876 (CR 876) is a major county road in Lee County, Florida spanning 22.92 miles (36.89 km). It is major east-west thoroughfare just south of Fort Myers city limits before becoming a north-south route through Lehigh Acres and Buckingham.
The Fort Caroline National Memorial is located in the Timucuan Preserve, as is the Kingsley Plantation, the oldest standing plantation in the state.The Preserve is maintained through cooperation by the National Park Service, the Florida Department of Environmental Protection and the City of Jacksonville Department of Parks and Recreation, which partner to support the Timucuan Parks Foundation.
Lee County is located in southwestern Florida, United States, on the Gulf Coast.As of the 2020 census, its population was 760,822.In 2022, the population was 822,453, making it the eighth-most populous county in the state. [2]
In 1990, Tree Hill received 160 acres of land on the west side of Jacksonville from the estate of Martin E. Stein. [13] In 2000, Tree Hill donated 10 acres of the Stein bequest to the city of Jacksonville for the creation of McGirts Creek Park, [ 15 ] later renamed Lew Brantley Park. [ 11 ]
The airfield was constructed starting in 1942 at a cost of $10 million on a total of 7,000 acres (28 km 2) of swamp land, which had to be drained with an extensive system of newly constructed canals. The airfield originally had three 5,000-foot runways, with two oval tracks of the Ground Moving Target Range, located to the west of the airfield ...