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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. 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 ...

  4. History of Sarasota, Florida - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Sarasota, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Sarasota, Florida. /  27.33722°N 82.53528°W  / 27.33722; -82.53528. Sarasota ( / ˌsærəˈsoʊtə /) 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 ...

  6. 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 ...

  7. Sarasota County, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .scgov .net. Sarasota County is a county located in Southwest Florida. At the 2020 US census, the population was 434,006. [2] Its county seat is Sarasota [3] and its largest city is North Port. Sarasota County is part of the North Port–Bradenton–Sarasota, FL metropolitan statistical area.

  8. Manatee County, Florida - Wikipedia

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    16th. Website. www .mymanatee .org. Manatee County is a county in the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 US Census, the population was 399,710. [1] Manatee County is part of the North Port-Bradenton-Sarasota, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area. Its county seat and largest city is Bradenton. [2]

  9. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art - Wikipedia

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    Website. ringling .org. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art is the official state art museum of Florida, [2] located in Sarasota, Florida. [3] It was established in 1927 as the legacy of Mable Burton Ringling and John Ringling for the people of Florida. Florida State University assumed governance of the museum in 2000.