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Cascades Park is a 24-acre (97,000 m 2) park along the stream known as the St. Augustine Branch in Tallahassee, Florida, United States, south of the Florida State Capitol. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is a Nationally Registered Historic Place because it influenced the territorial government's choice of the capital city's location.
Location of St. Johns County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in St. Johns County, Florida.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Johns County, Florida, United States.
Commercial production of ice. Punta Gorda Ice Plant, a historic ice plant in Punta Gorda, Florida; Florida Power and Light Company Ice Plant, a historic site in Melbourne, Florida; Chrystal Water and Power Company-Spencer Water and Ice Company, also known as Spencer Ice Plant, a historic power station and ice manufacturing plant in West Virginia
Construction on the plant began in December 1926 after the approval of a permit; [2] it was completed in the spring of 1927. The original estimated cost was $30,000, [2] but the final construction cost has been listed at $100,000. [3] The plant, which had an ice capacity of 50 tons at its peak, ceased operation in 1977. [3]
Unreliable and expensive at first, plant ice began to successfully compete with natural ice in Australia and India during the 1850s and 1870s respectively, until, by the outbreak of World War I in 1914, more plant ice was being produced in the U.S. each year than naturally harvested ice. Despite a temporary increase in production in the U.S ...
The Ximenez-Fatio House has been the site of more than 15 archaeological digs — more than any other property in St. Augustine, according to St. Augustine City Archaeologist Carl Halbirt. Archaeologists including Dr. Charles Fairbanks, Dr. Kathleen Deagan and others have found evidence of human occupation on the property dating back to the ...
Heads up, Rattlesnake Island. Vanilla Ice is moving in. Rapper, actor, construction contractor and television host Robert Van Winkle, who performs under the name Vanilla Ice, has bought two homes ...
Others left the reservation altogether, even moving to west of the Suwannee River. [13] Continuing shortages led Governor Duval in 1827 and 1828 to permit the Native Americans to leave the reservation to fish along the Gulf coast, despite worries that the Native Americans were trading with Cubans at Fishing ranchos on the coast. [14]