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  2. Sarasota Bay - Wikipedia

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    Sarasota Bay. Sarasota Bay is a lagoon located off the central west coast of Florida in the United States. Though no significant single stream of freshwater enters the bay, with a drainage basin limited to 150 square miles in Manatee and Sarasota counties, [1] it is generally treated as an estuary, with three "passes" or inlets giving access ...

  3. History of Sarasota, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Prehistory. Gulf of Mexico in 3-D - note the shallow shelf extending one hundred miles to the west of Sarasota (red dot) Fifteen thousand years ago, when humans first settled in Florida, the shoreline of the Gulf of Mexico was one hundred miles farther to the west. In this era, hunting and gathering was the primary means of subsistence.

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Sarasota ...

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    Location of Sarasota County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Sarasota County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Sarasota County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...

  5. Seagate (Manatee County, Florida) - Wikipedia

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    Seagate, also known as the Bay Club, is located along Sarasota Bay in Manatee County, Florida, and was the former winter estate of Powel Crosley Jr., a noted Cincinnati, Ohio, industrialist and entrepreneur. Crosley had the 11,000-square-foot (1,000 m 2 ), Mediterranean Revival -style home built in 1929 for his wife, Gwendolyn, on 45-acre (18 ...

  6. Waters and Elsa Burrows Historic District - Wikipedia

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    11001077 [1] Added to NRHP. February 3, 2012. Waters and Elsa Burrows Historic District is a U.S. historic district in Osprey, Florida south of Sarasota in Sarasota County. It includes the Bay Preserve at Osprey on Little Sarasota Bay. The district was added to the National Register of Historic Places on February 3, 2012. [1]

  7. John Ringling Causeway - Wikipedia

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    History. Construction cost. $20 million. Opened. 1959. Closed. 2003. John Ringling Causeway (also known as Ringling Bridge or Gil Waters Bridge [3]) is a bridge that extends past the Sarasota Bay, from Sarasota to St. Armands Key and Lido Key. The 65-foot-tall (20 m) bridge, built in 2003, is a segmental box girder bridge named after John ...

  8. Sarasota, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Sarasota (/ ˌ s ær ə ˈ s oʊ t ə /) is a city in and the county seat of Sarasota County, Florida, United States. It is located in Southwest Florida, the southern end of the Greater Tampa Bay Area, and north of Fort Myers and Punta Gorda. Its official limits include Sarasota Bay and several barrier islands between the bay and the Gulf of ...

  9. Ca' d'Zan - Wikipedia

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    Cà d'Zan ( / kɑːˌdə.zɑːn /) is a Mediterranean revival residence in Sarasota, Florida, adjacent to Sarasota Bay. Cà d'Zan was built in the mid-1920s as the winter retreat of the American circus mogul, entrepreneur, and art collector John Ringling and his wife Mable Burton Ringling. The name Cà d'Zan means "House of John" in the ...

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