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This new historical records library opened to the public on June 1, 1979. On April 9, 1987, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. Today, it is the Historical Records Library operated by the office of the Manatee County Clerk of the Circuit Court, and serves as the official archives of the county government. [10]
Location of Manatee County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Manatee County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Manatee County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
The Eaton Room is a collection of local and state historic materials housed in the Manatee Library System's Central Branch. Originally created following the death of local philanthropist Elizabeth M. Eaton in 1973, the collection includes materials gathered from County libraries, as well as Eaton's own antiquarian Florida purchases.
In 1860, Sarasota was still a part of Manatee county. While the county results of the vote to secede have been lost, or otherwise yet undiscovered, some scholars have deduced that the residents of Manatee were not overly enthusiastic about disunion. [citation needed] There were only 20 slave owners in Manatee county in 1860.
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Cortez is located in western Manatee County at (27.463550, -82.672610). [19] The village of Cortez stands at the west end of a peninsula bordered by Anna Maria Sound to the west, Palma Sola Bay to the north, and Sarasota Bay to the south. The Cortez census-designated place includes the village, plus the remainder of the peninsula to the east ...
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Local lore explains that the area's name stems for an early settler named Duette from Canada. While no records indicate this surname purchasing land in Manatee County, in the earliest years of settlement some homesteaders never established legal claim over their land, and therefore a record may not exist. [2]