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Frank and Ivy Stranahan, founding pioneers of Fort Lauderdale and the first residents of Las Olas Boulevard. Their trading post Stranahan House is located between the boulevard and New River. Ivy established the first public school in Ft. Lauderdale and later donated the land which would eventually become Stranahan High School. [7]
The narrow, 7 + 1 ⁄ 2-mile-long (12.1 km) road is located between Old Winter Beach Road and the current A1A, along the western side of Orchid Island, and is unpaved. [8] It is part of the Indian River Lagoon Scenic Highway system, and the southernmost road in the highway system.
Pier Sixty-Six is a resort and marina located in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. Situated on 32 acres, the Pier Sixty-Six property sits on the north and south sides of the 17th Street Causeway Bridge. [1] In 2016, Tavistock Development Company acquired the property and initiated a redevelopment project for Pier Sixty-Six. [2]
Fort Lauderdale (/ ˈ l ɔː d ər d eɪ l / LAW-dər-dayl) is a coastal city located in the U.S. state of Florida, 30 miles (48 km) north of Miami along the Atlantic Ocean.It is the county seat of and most populous city in Broward County with a population of 182,760 at the 2020 census, [7] making it the tenth-most populous city in Florida.
The land boom reached its zenith by 1925, when Ft. Lauderdale's population reached 16,000. On September 18, 1926, the coast of South Florida was devastated by the 1926 Miami Hurricane which put the area into a depression, three years before the rest of the country entered its economic depression .
Heart-pounding footage shows the moment a boat blew its top at a Florida marina, leaving one person dead and another five injured on Monday. The small boat exploded around 6 p.m. and then the fire ...
He purchased the oceanfront property for approximately a dollar an acre, ultimately owning a 3.5 mile stretch of beachfront. At age 90, in 1940, he built an Art Deco home on his 180-acre estate naming it "Terramar" or "land to the sea" and maintaining it until his death in 1943. [2] This is now home to the park's visitor center.
The approximate coordinates for the Town of Jupiter is located at . According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 21.1 square miles (55 km 2), of which 20.0 square miles (52 km 2) is land and 1.1 square miles (2.8 km 2) is water. Jupiter has a unique geographical location that sticks out into the Atlantic Ocean ...