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Friends of Seagate Inc. was founded in the late 1980s by Kafi Benz as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Sarasota, Florida. The historic preservation group lead local efforts protect historic property in the Sarasota-Bradenton area from commercial development. The group later expanded its scope to include environmental conservation.
[22] 15th Street/301 Boulevard has been severed from Bradenton Road in Sarasota due to extensions of Runway 14/32 at Sarasota–Bradenton International Airport. [ 23 ] In 1957, US 301 was rerouted to cross the Manatee River on the newly-built Hernando Desoto Bridge with US 301 turning north along present-day US 41 ( SR 55 ).
The full route of Bradenton Road and 15th Street in Manatee County was the original alignment of SR 683. [10] US 301 was extended south to Sarasota via SR 683 in 1953 with US 301/SR 683 running on a new alignment to the east from the Manatee/Sarasota County line south and entering Sarasota along Washington Boulevard.
Mohamed Atta and co-conspirator Marwan al-Shehhi, who piloted the hijacked jets, undertook part of their pilot training during 2000 at the Sarasota-Bradenton Airport through the former Jones Aviation facility that was located in Manatee County. [65] Sarasota became identified as an epicenter of the 2008 real estate crash.
The Desoto Bridge was built in 1957 in an effort to realign US 41 and US 301 through Bradenton and Palmetto. Prior to 1957, those routes crossed the Manatee River a short distance downstream on the original Green Bridge (part of which has become a fishing pier after the Green Bridge was replaced in 1986). [3] [4]
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A land swap between the water district and Sarasota County was done as part of the purchase and added 253 acres (102 ha) to the preserve. [3] The site is named in honor of Thomas Mabry Carlton Jr., a county commissioner who had a critical role in acquiring the land. [4] He died in a plane crash at his family ranch in 1989. [5]