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| | | | | | South Bay is a city in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is the westernmost municipality in the South Florida metropolitan area. The population was 3,859 at the 2000 census. As of 2007, the population recorded by the U.S. Census Bureau is 4,506. While the current estimates place South Bays population in the incorporated city limits at more than 4,000 people, surrounding areas increase the population figures to 54,000 people in a 25-mile (40 km) radius and more than 1.4 million in a 5... |
| | | | Lakes of Florida, Everglades, Landforms of Palm Beach County, Florida, Landforms of Glades County, Florida, Landforms of Okeechobee County, Florida, Landforms of Hendry County, Florida, Landforms of Martin County, Florida, Lake Okeechobee, Hidden categories:, All articles with dead external links, Articles with dead external links from May 2013, Articles needing cleanup from June 2015, All articles needing cleanup, Cleanup tagged articles with a reason field from June 2015, Wikipedia pages needi... | | Lake Okeechobee (US- o�ki�t�o�bi- ), locally referred to as The Lake, Floridas Inland Sea, or The Big O, is the largest freshwater lake in the state of Florida. It is the seventh largest freshwater lake in the United States and the second largest freshwater lake (the largest being Lake Michigan) contained entirely within the contiguous 48 states. However, it is the largest freshwater lake completely within a single one of the lower 48 states. Okeechobee covers 1,900 square kilometres (73... |
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| | | | | | WMEN 640 Sports (640 AM) is a sports talk radio station licensed to Royal Palm Beach, Florida, USA. The station primarily serves the West Palm Beach, Florida market and provides strong coverage of nearby Fort Lauderdale and Miami. 640 Sports is a Fox Sports Radio affiliate, carrying hourly sports updates along with weekend and overnight programming. The station is owned by Mark Jorgenson, through licensee ACM JCE IV B LLC, and operated by Palm Beach Broadcasting with studios in Pompano Beach. Un... |
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| | | | | | Miracle Park, also called Miracle Village, is a community outside of Pahokee, Florida that serves as a home for registered sex offenders. It was created by Richard Witherow, a minister working in prisons for 30 years, as an answer to sex offender registration laws that strictly limit where offenders may live. Such laws prohibit offenders from living within a certain distance of places where children gather, such as schools, parks, and places of worship. Within the limits of these rules, offender... |
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| | | | | | Hall City is a ghost town in Florida. It was established in what is now Glades County, Florida, during 1910 by Rev. George F. Hall, a retired Disciples of Christ minister living in Chicago, Illinois. Built and run locally by Rev. Halls son, G. Barton Hall, from 1910 until approximately 1925, Hall City was to have been a temperance town (i.e., free of alcoholic beverages) and was to be the site of proposed Hall University. However, the town failed and the bulk of the land was purchased by the Lyk... |
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| | | | | | Port Mayaca is a sparsely populated place located in western Martin County, Florida, United States, on the eastern side of Lake Okeechobee. Named for the Mayaca Tribe, Port Mayaca is centered just south of the Port Mayaca Lock and Dams on the Okeechobee Waterway (St. Lucie Canal) at the intersection of S.W. Kanner Highway, (State Road 76), and S.W. Gaines Highway, (State Road 15, which is signed as U.S. Route 441 and U.S. Route 98). There are a few houses and businesses at this intersection but ... |
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| | | | | | The Barley Barber Swamp, once a vast Bald Cypress forest and waterway in the Greater Everglades watershed, is a 450-acre (180 ha) parcel of land surrounded by Florida Power & Lights (FPL) Martin County power plant. The swamp is located just over a mile east of Lake Okeechobee and due west of Indiantown, Florida. The old-growth cypress swamp is named after Barley Barber, a man who lived in the area at the turn of the 20th century. Little is known of the man Barley Barber except that he left the r... |
| | | | | | WAFZ-FM (92.1 FM) is a radio station broadcasting a Regional Mexican format. The format plays a variety of new and current hits on the Regional Mexican format. At one time Also played Tejano music Music in the 1980s on its sister station WAFZ-AM. It its beginnings WAFZ use to be WZOR-AM 1490 and English programming adult contemporary music and news on for the morning until 3pm. Then it changed its format to regional mexican- tejano. The early DJs that worked there were Gabino Soliz, EL CHAVO ALE... |
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| | | | | | Martin Next Generation Solar Energy Center is the solar parabolic-trough component of an integrated solar combined cycle 1150 MW plant, in western Martin County, Florida, just north of Indiantown, built by Florida Power & Light Company (FPL). The ISCC plant is part of Martin Plant site which consists of 5 units. Unit 1 & Unit 2 are 800 MW steam electric generating units that use natural gas and low-sulfur residual oil. Unit 3 & Unit 4 are 500 MW natural gas-fired combined cycle units. Unit 8 is ... |
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| | | | | | The Big Cypress Indian Reservation is one of the six reservations of the Seminole Tribe of Florida. It is located in southeastern Hendry County and northwestern Broward County, in southern Florida in the United States. The reservation lies south of Lake Okeechobee and just north of Alligator Alley. It is governed by the Seminole Tribe of Floridas Tribal Council, and is the largest of the five Seminole reservations in the state. Facilities on the reservation include the tribal museum and a major ... |
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| | | | | | The Battle of Lake Okeechobee was one of the major battles of the Second Seminole War. It was fought between 800 troops of the 1st, 4th, and 6th Infantry Regiments and 132 Missouri Volunteers (under the command of Colonel Zachary Taylor), and between 380 and 480 Seminoles led by Billy Bowlegs, Abiaca, and Alligator on 25 December 1837. The Seminole warriors were resisting forced relocation to a reservation out west. Though both the Seminoles and Taylors troops emerged from the battle claiming vi... |
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| | | | | | Okeechobee (US- o�ki�t�o�bi- ) is a city in Okeechobee County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, the citys population was 5,621, reflecting an increase of 245 (+4.6%) from the 5,376 counted in the 2000 Census. It is the county seat of Okeechobee County. The Lake Okeechobee area was the site of the worst effects of the 1928 Okeechobee Hurricane, the first recorded Category 5 hurricane in the North Atlantic and still one of the deadliest hurricanes ever to strike... |
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| | | | | | Twenty Mile Bend is an unofficial landmark located in Palm Beach County, Florida, United States. It is located at the intersection of State Road 80 and State Road 880. This location is both 20 miles (32 km) from West Palm Beach, as well as 20 miles (32 km) from Lake Okeechobee. However, the name is derived from State Road 880. When traveling east from Belle Glade, there are bends in the road at the 9 miles (14 km), 12 miles (19 km), and 20 miles (32 km) points. This bend is located at the 20 mil... |
| | | | | | The Okeechobee County Courthouse, built in 1926, is an historic courthouse building located at 304 Northwest Second Street in Okeechobee, Florida. It was designed by architect George Gaynor Hyde of Miami in what has been variously called the Southern Colonial Revival or Mediterranean Revival style of architecture. Due to the collapse of the Florida Land Boom during its construction, its central dome was never built. After the 1928 Okeechobee hurricane, its hallways were used as a temporary morgu... |
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| | | | | | Okeechobee station is a train station in Okeechobee, Florida, served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system of the United States. Although there is a depot onsite built in 1924 for the Seaboard Air Line Railway, Amtrak uses an adjacent shelter constructed in 2011. Built of red brick accented with cream-colored, rock-faced stonework, the shelter has a waiting room with large windows. The $1.5 million project was funded through Amtraks Mobility First initiative under the American Recove... |
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