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The 1998 Florida Legislature designated the western 7 miles (11 km) of the Polk Parkway (between Interstate 4 and South Florida Avenue (State Road 37) as the James Henry Mills Medal of Honor Parkway. Mills was the only native of Polk County to receive a medal of honor in World War II, in recognition of his heroic actions in Cisterna , Italy.
Hobart Bay, Alaska. Population: 1 . Located 70 miles south of Juneau, Hobart Bay was once a thriving logging town. Until 1998, it had enough residents to support a local school, but now it's ...
Florida participated in the American Civil War as a member of the Confederate States of America.It had been admitted to the United States as a slave state in 1845. In January 1861, Florida became the third Southern state to secede from the Union after the November 1860 presidential election victory of Abraham Lincoln.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) -Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said he supports a ballot initiative in Florida that would legalize recreational use of marijuana for adults ages 21 years and ...
US 1 in Florida City: Florida's Turnpike (SR 91) in Miramar: 47.856 77.017 carries Homestead Extension of Florida's Turnpike: SR 822: US 441 in Hollywood: SR A1A in Hollywood: 5.792 9.321 SR 823: US 27 in Hialeah: I-595 / SR 84 (SR 862) in Davie: 20.210 32.525 SR 824: SR 817 in Miramar / Pembroke Pines: US 1 in Hallandale Beach / Hollywood: 6.547
From July 2021 through December 2023, Florida had the highest number of book-ban cases in the U.S., at 3,135 bans across 11 school districts, according to an April report from PEN America, a ...
U.S. Route 90 (US 90) in the state of Florida is the northernmost east–west United States Numbered Highway in the state. US 90 passes through the county seats of all 15 counties on its course in Florida, and it is also the road upon which many of the county courthouses are located.
The Floridan aquifer system underlies portions of five states. Source: USGS. The Floridan aquifer system spans an area of about 100,000 square miles (260,000 km 2) in the southeastern United States and underlies all of Florida and parts of southern Alabama, southeastern Georgia, and southern South Carolina. [1]