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St. Johns River in c. 1915 S.S. Frederick DeBary in 1910 Historic DeBary Hall. DeBary is a city in Volusia County, Florida, United States, on the eastern shore of the St. Johns River near Lake Monroe.
Bokeelia is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) located on Pine Island in Lee County, Florida, United States.As of the 2020 census, the CDP had a population of 1,855, [4] up from 1,780 at the 2010 census.
Lake Osceola c. 1906. The Winter Park area's first human residents were migrant Muscogee people who had earlier intermingled with the Choctaw and other indigenous people. In a process of ethnogenesis, the Native Americans formed a new culture which they called "Seminole", a derivative of the Mvskoke' (a Creek language) word simano-li, an adaptation of the Spanish cimarrón which means "wild ...
West Melbourne is a city in Brevard County, Florida, United States.It was created in 1959 to stop the area from being annexed into the city of Melbourne. [5] Since 2000, the city has experienced the highest population growth percentage of any municipality in Brevard County. [6]
St. Cloud or Saint Cloud [5] is a city in northern Osceola County, Florida, United States.It is on the southern shore of East Lake Tohopekaliga in Central Florida, about 26 miles (41.8 km) southeast of Orlando.
Auburndale is part of the Tampa/St. Pete television market, the 13th largest in the country and part of the local Lakeland/Winter Haven radio market, which is the 94th largest in the country. [ 20 ] [ 21 ]
Opa-locka was founded in 1926 by aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss, who had retired to become a real estate developer during the nascent Florida land boom.The city's unique "Arabian" or "Moorish" architectural theme was executed by American architect Bernhardt E. Muller, who had designed several Mediterranean and Spanish-style homes in nearby Miami in 1923. [8]
Lake Hamilton is one of the largest lakes in the Winter Haven area. Parts of its shoreline are surrounded by residential areas. The lake has a mobile home park on its northeast shore. A golf course borders the lake along all the southwest shore and US Highway 27 runs close to the lake along much of its east shore. A swamp borders the lake at ...