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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 ...
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 ...
The Browning and Whitaker pioneer families, gathered for a photograph in Sarasota, Florida during 1886 – Sarasota County History Center collection. In 1890, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began dredging what would eventually be known as the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway (ICW). The Gulf ICW is the many natural deep water sections as well as ...
The developer, Walter V. Coleman, and his family came to Sarasota in 1923 from Detroit via Miami at the beginning of Florida land boom. After he became a successful Realtor – he had 26 agents ...
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]
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 ...
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 ...
The Hermitage–Whitney Historic District is a U.S. historic district . The Hermitage Artist Retreat is situated along Manasota Key, a barrier island on the shores of Englewood, Florida. Its nine-acre beachfront campus includes five historic buildings and three structures. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in October 2002.