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Atlantic Ocean off of Tequesta, Florida. Status. Missing for 9 years, 2 months and 6 days. Nationality. American. Height. 5 ft 2 in (1.57 m) Perry Cohen (born January 30, 2001) [1] and Austin Stephanos (born December 1, 2000) [2] were two fourteen-year-old friends who vanished during a fishing trip on July 24, 2015 in Tequesta, Florida.
The Windover Archeological Site is a Middle Archaic (8,000 to 1,000 BC) archaeological site and National Historic Landmark in Brevard County near Titusville, Florida, United States on the central east coast of the state. Windover is a muck pond where skeletal remains of 168 individuals were found buried in the peat at the bottom of the pond.
Amendment 2 pros. The amendment would prevent bans on hunting and fishing. Such bans were considered in about a dozen states in 2022, according to VoteYesOn2Florida.com, a site supporting the ...
The indigenous people of the Everglades region arrived in the Florida peninsula of what is now the United States approximately 14,000 to 15,000 years ago, probably following large game. The Paleo-Indians found an arid landscape that supported plants and animals adapted to prairie and xeric scrub conditions.
As the land from Lake Okeechobee slopes gradually to Florida Bay, water flows at a rate of half a mile (0.8 km) a day. Before human activity in the Everglades, the system comprised the lower third of the Florida peninsula. The first attempt to drain the region was made by real estate developer Hamilton Disston in 1881.
Jesse Fish (1724 or 1726–1790) was a shipmaster, [1] merchant, and realtor who lived in St. Augustine, Florida under both Spanish and British rule, and is infamous in the town's history to this day. He was a schemer involved in contraband trade and illegal real estate deals, and operated as a slaver, smuggler, and usurer.
The Florida Reef (also known as the Great Florida Reef, Florida reefs, Florida Reef Tract and Florida Keys Reef Tract) is the only living coral barrier reef in the continental United States. [12] It lies a few miles seaward of the Florida Keys , is about 4 miles (6 to 7 km) wide and extends (along the 20 meter depth contour) 270 km (170 mi ...
7 (d. October 1967) James Joseph Richardson (December 26, 1935 – September 16, 2023) [ 1 ][ 2 ] was an African-American man who was wrongfully convicted and sentenced to death in 1968 for the October 1967 mass murder of his seven children. They died after eating a poisoned breakfast containing the organic phosphate pesticide parathion. [ 3 ]