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Near the center, the bridge rises in an arc to provide 65-foot (20 m)-high clearance for boat passage. The remainder of the bridge is considerably closer to the water surface. The new bridge does not cross Pigeon Key. The total length of the new bridge is actually 35,862 ft (10,931 m) or 6.79 miles (10.93 km), and is shorter than the original.
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The Edison Bridge seen in the foreground, with the Caloosahatchee River Bridge in the background and downtown Fort Myers to the left The Isaiah D. Hart Bridge , as seen from TIAA Bank Field While the Courtney Campbell Causeway itself is almost 10 mi (16.1km) long, its longest over-water span (center-left) is just over one half-mile (804.7m) long.
Like most places, Key West has changed through the decades. Tourism became the economy’s bedrock. Chain stores moved downtown. More people, more cars. ... See old photos of streets, buildings ...
Key West is closer to Havana (about 106 miles or 171 kilometers by air or sea) [8] than it is to Miami (130 miles or 210 kilometers by air or 165 miles or 266 kilometers by road). [7] Key West is the usual endpoint for marathon swims from Cuba, including Diana Nyad's 2013 swim [33] [34] and Susie Maroney's 1997 swim from within a shark cage. [35]
At a length of nearly two and a half miles, it is the second longest bridge on the Overseas Highway after the Seven Mile Bridge. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] The current bridge opened in 1982, replacing the parallel Long Key Viaduct , which carried the Overseas Railroad from 1907 to 1935 and was repurposed for highway use shortly after.
The Key West Historic District (also known as Old Town of the City of Key West) is a U.S. historic district (designated as such on March 11, 1971) located in Key West, Florida. It encompasses approximately 4,000 acres (16 km 2 ), bounded by White, Angela, Windsor, Passover, Thomas and Whitehead Streets, and the Gulf of Mexico .
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