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Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Fort Lauderdale is a city in
the U.S. state of Florida, on the Atlantic coast. It is the county seat
of Broward County. It is a principal city of the South Florida
metropolitan area, which is home to over 5,413,212 people.
Fort
Lauderdale, Florida, USA
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The
city is a popular tourist destination, with 10.35 million visitors in
2006. Fort Lauderdale is sometimes known as the "Venice of
America" because of its expansive and intricate canal system. The
city is a major yachting center, with 42,000 resident yachts and 100
marinas and boatyards. The city sits 23 miles north of Miami, Florida.
Fort Lauderdale and the surrounding area host over 4100 restaurants and
120 nightclubs.
Fort
Lauderdale is named after a series of forts built by the United States
during the Second Seminole War. The forts took their name from Major
William Lauderdale, who was the commander of the detachment of soldiers
who built the first fort. However, development of the city did not begin
until 50 years after the forts were abandoned at the end of the conflict.
Three forts named "Fort Lauderdale" were constructed; the first
was at the fork of the New River, the second at Tarpon Bend, in what is
now known as the Sailboat Bend neighborhood, and the third near the site
of the Bahia Mar Marina.
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Inglis is a town located in
Levy County, Florida, United States. It is located on U.S. Highway 19
near the Cross Florida Greenway, about 5 miles east of the Gulf of
Mexico.
During
July and August 1961, Elvis Presley spent his summer in Inglis and the
surrounding areas filming his movie Follow That Dream. A historical
marker on Follow That Dream Parkway in Inglis commemorates this event.
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Key West is a city in Monroe
County, Florida, United States. The city encompasses the island of Key
West, the part of Stock Island north of U.S. 1 (the Overseas Highway)
(east), Sigsbee Park (north, originally known as Dredgers Key), Fleming
Key (north), and Sunset Key (west, originally known as Tank Island). Both
Fleming Key and Sigsbee Park are part of Naval Air Station Key West and
are inaccessible by civilians. Key West is the county seat of Monroe
County. Key West is known as the southernmost city in the
Continental United States. It is also the southern terminus of U.S. 1,
State Road A1A, the East Coast Greenway and before 1935, the Florida East
Coast Railway.
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Key
West, Florida, USA
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Key West is a seaport
destination for many passenger cruise ships. The Key West International
Airport provides airline service. Hotels and guest houses are available
for lodging. Naval Air Station Key West is an important year round
training site for naval aviation due to the superb weather
conditions. It is also a reason the city was chosen as the Winter
White House of President Harry S. Truman. The central business district
primarily comprises Duval Street, and includes much of the northwest
corner of the island along Whitehead, Simonton, Front, Greene, Caroline,
and Eaton Streets and Truman Avenue. The official city motto is "One
Human Family."
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Orlando
is a major city in the central region of the U.S. state of Florida. It is
the county seat of Orange County and the center of the Greater Orlando
metropolitan region. It is the fifth largest city in Florida by
population. It was incorporated on July 31, 1875, and became a city in
1885.
Orlando,
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Originally
the center of a major citrus-growing region, Orlando is now an urban city
with various industries. The area is a major tourist destination and is
the home of the Universal Orlando Resort, and SeaWorld. Orlando is also
about 21 miles Northeast of Lake Buena Vista, Florida, home of the Walt
Disney World Resort. These attractions helped make Orlando the third most
visited American city among travelers in the year 2007. Since the
establishment of destination tourism in the 1970s, the local economy has
diversified, and today the region is the center of operations for
companies servicing Central Florida. Orlando is also home to the
University of Central Florida, the largest university campus by student
enrollment in the state of Florida and among the largest in the United
States.
In
2008, Orlando was listed as a "high sufficiency" world-city in
the World Cities Study Group’s inventory by Loughborough University and
is one category away from becoming a Gamma world city. According to
Loughborough, Orlando now ranks alongside other cities such as Osaka,
Glasgow, and Baltimore.
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 Quincy is a city in Gadsden County, Florida, United
States. Quincy is part of the Tallahassee, Florida Metropolitan
Statistical Area.
There
are several locations in Quincy which have been included in the National
Register of Historic Places, most of which are within the boundary of the
Quincy Historic District. They are: E. B. Shelfer House, E. C. Love
House, John Lee McFarlin House, Judge P. W. White House, Old Philadelphia
Presbyterian Church, Quincy Library, Quincy Woman's Club, Stockton-Curry
House, Willoughby Gregory House.
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Saint Petersburg, Florida
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St. Petersburg (often
shortened to St. Pete) is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States.
The city is known as a vacation destination for North American and
European vacationers. St. Petersburg is the second largest city in the
Tampa Bay Area, which is composed of roughly 2.7 million residents,
making it the second largest Metropolitan Statistical Area in the state.
 The city is
commonly referred to by locals as "St. Pete"; neighboring St.
Pete Beach, Florida formally shortened its name in 1994 after a vote by
its residents.
The
city is located on a peninsula between Tampa Bay and the Gulf of Mexico.
It is connected to the mainland to the north, connected with the city of
Tampa to the east by causeways and bridges across Tampa Bay, and to
Bradenton in the south by the Sunshine Skyway Bridge (Interstate 275),
which traverses the mouth of the bay. It is also served by Interstates
175 and 375, which branch off I-275 into the southern and northern areas
of downtown respectively. The Gandy Bridge, conceived by George Gandy and
opened in 1924, was the first causeway to be built across Tampa Bay,
connecting St. Petersburg and Tampa cities without a circuitous 43-mile
(69 km) trip around the Bay through Oldsmar.
With a
purported average of some 360 days of sunshine each year, it is nicknamed
"The Sunshine City." For that reason, the city is a popular
tourist and retirement destination, especially for those in the United
States from colder Northern climates – particularly New York City,
Detroit, and Chicago. However, in recent years the population has shifted
in a more youthful direction.
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