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(Ponte Vedra Beach) Republican: January 3, 2013 – September 10, 2018 113th 114th 115th: Elected in 2012. Re-elected in 2014. Re-elected in 2016. Resigned to run for Governor of Florida. [9] Vacant: September 10, 2018 – January 3, 2019 115th: Michael Waltz (St. Augustine Beach) Republican: January 3, 2019 – January 20, 2025 116th 117th ...
Ponte Vedra Beach is a wealthy unincorporated community and suburb of Jacksonville, Florida in St. Johns County, Florida, United States.Located in the Jacksonville metropolitan area, 18 miles (29 km) southeast of downtown Jacksonville and 26 miles (42 km) north of St. Augustine, it is part of the Jacksonville Beaches area, and is situated on San Pablo Island.
Ponte Vedra is located west of the Intracoastal Waterway; south and east of the Duval county line. [1] It presently includes parts of Palm Valley, much of Nocotee, [2] Allen D. Nease Senior High School [3] and Ponte Vedra High School [4] [5] The population of Ponte Vedra was 33,249 according to Census data:ACS 2023 [6] and it is primarily a ...
St. Johns County's history begins in 1821, when Colonel Robert Butler received Spanish East Florida from Captain-General Colonel José M. Coppinger.Butler represented Major General Andrew Jackson, federal military commissioner for the Florida provinces (las Floridas) with the powers of governor, exercising the powers of the Captain General and the Intendants of the Island of Cuba and the ...
The GTM Research Reserve Visitor Center is located at 505 Guana River Road in Ponte Vedra Beach, Florida.It is in the northern component of GTM Research Reserve, ten miles north of St. Augustine on State Road A1A in Ponte Vedra Beach, and serves as the administrative, education, research, and stewardship facilities for the northern component of GTM Research Reserve.
Palm Valley, especially, mostly consisted of farmland. In 1914 mineral deposits were discovered at Ponte Vedra, after which point it grew as the town of Mineral City. Following World War I real estate development began in the area and the name was changed to Ponte Vedra Beach.
Palm Valley is a census-designated place (CDP) in St. Johns County, Florida, United States. The population was 21,827 at the 2020 census, up from 20,019 at the 2010 census. [4] It is part of the Jacksonville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Growth on north San Pablo Island was facilitated by roads and bridges built over time to connect it with Jacksonville on the mainland, beginning with Atlantic Blvd in the early 1900s, Beach Blvd (which was constructed on the railway bed of the former Jacksonville and Atlantic Railroad) in the late 1940s, the Butler Blvd expressway in the late 1980s, and finally, the Wonderwood Connector ...