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Lido Key (LEE doh KEE) is a barrier island off the coast of Sarasota, Florida, in the United States. It is part of the city of Sarasota and is connected to mainland Sarasota by John Ringling Causeway .
The 2½ mile wooden toll bridge opened on June 12, 1913, providing a critical link to the newly established city of Miami Beach, formerly accessible only by a ferry service. While none of these islands were built, the foundation pillings for one of them can still be seen in Central Biscayne Bay between Di Lido Island and the Julia Tuttle Causeway.
State Road 789 (SR 789) is a 17.5-mile-long road along the Florida’s Gulf Coast that spans Bird Key, St. Armands Key, and Lido Key, in Sarasota; Longboat Key (as Gulf of Mexico Drive); and Anna Maria Island.
The causeway and its original bridge were built in 1925 by John Ringling, who owned large tracts of land on both Lido and Longboat Keys. Ringling wanted to develop the islands and financed the cost of the bridge at the cost of approximately $750,000, equivalent to $13 million in 2023 [ 5 ] , to connect the islands with the mainland. [ 6 ]
Venice Lido, an 11-kilometre-long barrier island in the Venetian Lagoon, Venice, Italy; Ruislip Lido, a reservoir and artificial beach in Ruislip, London, UK. Di Lido Island, a neighborhood of the South Beach district of Miami Beach, Florida; Lido Isle, Newport Beach, a man-made island, located in the harbor of Newport Beach, California
Another community was also started at about the same time, named Island Beach, located south of it. [4] Longbeach gained its own post office in 1914. [ 8 ] During the early 1900s and prior to the 1921 hurricane, Longboat Key had a significant farming presence, with local residents growing a variety of products.
Lido Beach may refer to: Lido Beach, Florida; Lido Beach, New York; Lido Beach (Hong Kong) Lido Beach, Mogadishu This page was last edited on ...
The first was to stretch from the causeway to Di Lido Island, and was to be called Isolda di Lolando, [1] continuing the Venetian theme of the existing successful artificial island projects. In 1925 the population explosion in South Florida had begun to strain local resources, and railway shipping companies began raising prices.