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March 30: Florida Territory is organized combining East Florida and West Florida. April 17: Florida's first civilian governor, William Pope Duval takes office. August 12: Jackson and Duval County, Florida's first two counties are formed. 1824: Florida's first true lighthouse built in St. Augustine.
The Polk County History Center is located at 100 East Main Street, Bartow, Florida, in the historic Old Polk County Courthouse.The museum consists of exhibits presenting local and regional history from pre-Columbian to present eras and a library with items pertaining to the history and genealogy of the eastern United States.
1301 – King Andrew III died without any male heirs, ending the Árpád dynasty, which had ruled Hungary since the late 9th century.; 1900 – Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca (poster pictured), based on the play La Tosca by French dramatist Victorien Sardou, premiered at the Teatro Costanzi in Rome.
"Milton will go down as one of the most damaging and impactful storms in Florida history, along with Hurricane Helene’s estimated total damage and economic loss of $225-250 billion just two ...
The 2024 Florida legislative session is over. Its effects are soon to come, especially as they relate to First Amendment issues. A number of bills were passed in the session that ended Friday.
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The old Orange County Courthouse, located in Orlando, Florida, United States, serves as the home of the Historical Society of Central Florida and the Orange County Regional History Center. [2] Constructed in 1927, the Courthouse stands in the vicinity of a number of previous judicial buildings.
Hurricane Helene made landfall in North Florida on Thursday night. But a wide swatch of the Gulf Coast, from Naples through Tampa Bay, also felt the force of the storm.