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Perth had its start in the year 1870 by the building of the railroad through that territory. [3] It was named after Perth, Scotland, not Perth, Western Australia. [4] A post office was established at Perth in 1880, and remained in operation until it was discontinued in 1929.
US 1 was designated through Florida when the U.S. Numbered Highway System was established in 1926. With the exception of Monroe County, the highway runs through the easternmost tier of counties in the state, connecting numerous towns and cities along its route, including nine county seats.
View of Hawk Channel from Marathon or Islamorada at sunset. Hawk Channel is a shallow, elongated basin and navigable passage along the Atlantic coast of the Florida Keys.The channel makes up a smaller portion of the Florida Platform from Key West to the southernmost point of Key Biscayne and lies between the Keys and the Florida Reef Tract to the southeast. [1]
Monroe County Sheriff’s Office Colonel Lou Caputo, as the Grinch, watches Sgt. Greg Korzan uses a laser speed detector to check speeds of motorists traveling through a school zone on the Florida ...
Thursday morning, the annual Independence Day parade is expected to slow traffic in Key Largo from around 9 a.m. until 1 p.m. The parade route will be the northbound lanes of U.S. 1, or the ...
In 1821, Florida was transferred from Spain to the United States, and in 1824, two Key West men, Joshua Appleby and a man named Solomon Snyder, sent an employee, Silas Fletcher, to open a store on Indian Key. The store was to serve wreckers, settlers, and Indians in the upper Keys, and a settlement of primarily Bahamian wreckers and turtlers ...
Conch Key, Florida (1973) Conch Key is an island and unincorporated community in Monroe County, Florida, United States, located in the middle Florida Keys. U.S. 1 (the Overseas Highway) crosses the key at approximately mile markers 62–63, between Long and Duck Keys. It is part of the census-designated place of Duck Key.
Labor Day traffic in the Florida Keys came to a halt Monday afternoon because of a busted sewer line underneath U.S. 1, according to the Monroe County Sheriff’s Office.