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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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| |  | 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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| |  | 1941 establishments in Florida, Biological research institutes, Buildings and structures in Highlands County, Florida, National Natural Landmarks in Florida, Nature reserves in Florida, National Register of Historic Places in Highlands County, Florida, Research institutes in the United States, Biological stations, Protected areas of Highlands County, Florida, Nature centers in Florida, Education in Highlands County, Florida, South Florida Registered Historic Place stubs, Biology organization stu... | | The Archbold Biological Station (ABS) is a research institute with a surrounding 5,192.63-acre (21 km2) estate near Lake Placid, Florida, USA. It includes an extensive area of Florida scrub, a scientifically interesting and highly threatened ecosystem. It was established in 1941 by Richard Archbold when his sponsorship of zoological research in New Guinea was curtailed by the outbreak of the Second World War in the Pacific region. The Station supports 19 federally listed threatened species, incl... |
| |  | | | 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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| |  | | | 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... |
| |  | | | 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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| |  | | | 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... |
| |  | | | 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 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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| |  | | | 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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