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Location and details of the Ponce de Leon Inlet. Aerial view. The Ponce de Leon Inlet is a natural opening in the barrier islands in central Florida that connects the north end of the Mosquito Lagoon and the south end of the Halifax River to the Atlantic Ocean. The inlet originally was named Mosquito Inlet. In 1926 the Florida Legislature ...
The historic zone is located in what is commonly called Ponce Pueblo – the central downtown and oldest area of the city. While there are several roads that lead to it, the most common point of entry is via PR-1, which becomes the Miguel Pou Boulevard, and then into the one-way Isabel Street, leading to the center of Ponce at the Plaza Las Delicias.
Ponce Inlet: 68: The Porches: The Porches: October 6, 1988 : 176 South Beach Street: Ormond Beach: Part of the Historic Winter Residences of Ormond Beach, 1878-1925 MPS: 69: Port Orange Florida East Coast Railway Freight Depot
The oldest colonial building still standing in the Ponce Historic Zone, the Neoclásico Isabelino-style City Hall from 1846 is a symbol of the city charter granted by Isabella II of Spain and has served as a civic center, jailhouse and reception venue for visiting US presidents and foreign dignitaries. 10: Casa de la Masacre: Casa de la Masacre
The Ponce De Leon Inlet Light Station was designated a National Historic Landmark on August 5, 1998, [7] [8] one of only eleven lighthouses to earn this designation. [ 9 ] The lighthouse and three keepers' dwellings have been restored, and are open to the public seven days a week.
Ponce Inlet lies on a peninsula at (29.094744, –80.942599), [4] adjacent to the Ponce de León Inlet, and between the Halifax River and Atlantic According to the United States Census Bureau , the town has a total area of 14.7 square miles (38 km 2 ), of which 4.3 square miles (11 km 2 ) is land and 10.3 square miles (27 km 2 ) (70.48%) is water.
The Puerto Rico Register of Historic Sites and Zones (Spanish: Registro Nacional de Sitios y Zonas Históricas) is a Puerto Rican government program adopted by the state Planning Board (Junta de Planificación) for use by both private and public entities to evaluate, register, revitalize, develop or protect the built historic and cultural heritage of Puerto Rico in the context and for economic ...
View of the channelized Río Portugués, looking north from Puente de Los Leones. An 1818 map [a] of the city of Ponce recorded by historian Eduardo Neumann Gandia shows that the site currently occupied by Puente de los Leones was a regular cross-way over Rio Portugués between the eastern flatlands and the village of Ponce to the west. [8]