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The island's most family-friendly amenities can be found at Omni Amelia Island Resort, which has a splash pool, a family pool, and daily activities such as pickleball, a tennis clinic, and arts ...
Amelia Island hosted a Women's Tennis Association tournament for 28 years (1980 to 2008). From 1987 to 2008 it was known as the Bausch & Lomb Championships. [57] Since 2009 Amelia Island has hosted the annual Pétanque America Open of the game of pétanque, a form of boules. [58]
The Fort Clinch State Park is a Florida State Park, located on a peninsula near the northernmost point of Amelia Island, along the Amelia River.Its 1,100 acres (4 km 2) include the 19th-century Fort Clinch, sand dunes, plains, maritime hammock and estuarine tidal marsh.
In 1935, the State of Florida bought 256 acres (1.0 km 2) that included the then-abandoned fort and the surrounding area. Fort Clinch State Park including the fort, opened to the public in 1938. The fort was closed to the public during World War II and used as a communications and security post. It was re-opened to public visits after the war ...
Of all the beach hotels on Amelia Island, The Ritz-Carlton Amelia Island best embodies beachside elegance. The hotel enjoys a magnificent location on an often-empty beach, and there's an indoor ...
American Beach was co-founded in 1935 by Florida's first black millionaire, Abraham Lincoln Lewis, and his Afro-American Life Insurance Company. [5] A. L. Lewis was one of the original founders of the Afro-American Life Insurance Company in 1901; with little education he became a world traveler, investor, philanthropist, and the first African-American millionaire in the state of Florida.