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  2. Margate, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Margate, Florida. /  26.24639°N 80.21222°W  / 26.24639; -80.21222. Margate is a city in Broward County, Florida, United States. The city of Margate is part of the Miami metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 58,712.

  3. Broward County, Florida - Wikipedia

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    Website. www .broward .org. Broward County ( / ˈbraʊ.ərd / BROURD, BROW- (w)ərd) is a county in the southeastern part of Florida, located in the Miami metropolitan area. It is Florida's second-most populous county after Miami-Dade County and the 17th-most populous in the United States, with 1,944,375 residents as of the 2020 census. [7]

  4. History of Margate - Wikipedia

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    Margate Jetty, also known as Margate Pier, which was designed by Eugenius Birch in 1856, has suffered damage from the sea over the years. On 1 January 1877 it was sliced through by a storm-driven wreck that marooned 40 to 50 people. They were not rescued until the next day.

  5. Margate - Wikipedia

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    Margate is a seaside town in the Thanet District of Kent, England. It is located on the north coast of Kent and covers an area of 2 miles (3 kilometres) long, 16 miles (26 kilometres) north-east of Canterbury and includes Cliftonville, Garlinge, Palm Bay and Westbrook. In 2011 it had a population of 61,223.

  6. Lucy the Elephant - Wikipedia

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    May 11, 1976 [3] Designated NJRHP. April 7, 1971. Lucy the Elephant is a six-story elephant -shaped example of novelty architecture, constructed of wood and clad in tin in 1882 by James V. Lafferty in Margate City, New Jersey, approximately five miles (8 km) south of Atlantic City. Originally named Elephant Bazaar, Lucy was built to promote ...

  7. St. Petersburg, Florida - Wikipedia

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    St. Petersburg, Florida. /  27.77306°N 82.64000°W  / 27.77306; -82.64000. St. Petersburg is a city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 258,308, making it the fifth-most populous city in Florida and the most populous city in the state that is not a county seat (the city of Clearwater is ...

  8. Whitehall (Henry M. Flagler House) - Wikipedia

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    Whitehall is a 75-room, 100,000 square foot Gilded Age mansion open to the public in Palm Beach, Florida in the United States.Completed in 1902, it is a major example of neoclassical Beaux Arts architecture designed by Carrère and Hastings for Henry Flagler, a leading captain of industry in the late 19th century, and a leading developer of Florida as a tourist destination.

  9. History of Florida - Wikipedia

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    The history of Florida can be traced to when the first Paleo-Indians began to inhabit the peninsula as early as 14,000 years ago. They left behind artifacts and archeological evidence. Florida's written history begins with the arrival of Europeans; the Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de León in 1513 made the first textual records.