Blogs from Florida, United States, North America - page 543

Jun 19, 1995 *City official name :Key West *Founded date : *Location :Florida State *Elavation :? ft (? m) *Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). *Facts :Key West is a city and an island of the same name near the southernmost tip of the Florida Keys in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It is the county seat of Monroe County.GR6 Key West is known as the Southernmost City in the Continental United States and also as the Conch Republic. It is also the southern terminus of U.S. Route 1, State Road A1A and the East Coast Greenway. Key West is 129 miles (207 km) southwest (229.9 degrees) of Miami, Florida, (about 160 driving miles) and 106 miles (170 km) north northeast (21.2 degrees) of Havana, Cuba. Cuba, at its closest point is 98 sta... read more

Jul 9, 1994 *City official name :Daytona Beach *Founded date : *Location :Florida State *Elavation :? ft (? m) *Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). *Facts :Daytona Beach is a city in Volusia County, Florida, USA. As of 2004, the population estimates recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 64,422. Daytona Beach is a year-round resort area, and home to Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach Community College, and Keiser College Daytona Beach Campus. The city is also home to the Daytona Cubs, a minor league baseball team of the Florida State League. Daytona Beach is well-known for its beaches (and the accompanying spring breakers) and as host of the Daytona 500, the opening race of the NASCAR Nextel ... read more

Mar 15, 1993 *City official name :Orange Park *Founded date : *Location :Florida State *Elavation :? ft (? m) *Area :Approximately ? square miles (? km²). *Facts :Orange Park is a town in Clay County, Florida, USA. The population was 9,081 at the 2000 census. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2004 estimates, the town had grown to 9,243. The name reflects the hope of its founders for a fruit-growing industry, but their crops were destroyed in the Great Freeze of 1894-95. Despite recovery elsewhere, the crops never came back to Orange Park. Founded in 1877 by the Florida Winter Home and Improvement Company. Following the Civil War, the company purchased several thousand acres of the McIntosh plantation at Laurel Grove, for the purpose of ... read more

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its been three weeks since butch dropped me off back home...and i'm still livin the dream... though, i must admit there are some pretty pie crazy jabbies down in these parts... so...i spent a week back home hangin with the fam and a few friends...did a nice little ceremony thing for JLG...those that were there, i truly appreciate it... then i caught a flight on down to the city of sunny orlando... and like an idiot...i tried puttin the word "plan" back into my vocabulary...but, again...shit falls apart...and living in 1989...its best to not plan...cause all they do is not pan out... so...Annie and Jason allowed me to spend a week with them in there place...it was a fun, drunken, yet relaxing time...pool and sun always add to a great day. finally ate at the gyro ... read more