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Tampa Fairgrounds Arena (1977–83) Address: 4800 US Highway 301 North: Location: East Lake-Orient Park, Florida ... Owner: Florida State Fair Authority [1]
The Florida State Fairgrounds in East Lake-Orient Park, Florida, hosts the annual Florida State Fair and various other events. [1] Covering 355 acres (1.44 km 2 ), it features a variety of buildings.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in St. Johns County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a map. [1]
The United States never used the fort and it became a ruin. Fort Matanzas was named for the inlet, which acquired its name after the executions, or matanzas (Spanish: slaughters), [21] on its north shore, of Jean Ribault and his band of Huguenot Frenchmen, the last of the Fort Caroline colonists, [22] by the Spanish in 1565. [23] [24]
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View of the Matanzas Bay from the Castillo de San Marcos United States Topographical Map of St. Augustine, Florida. Matanzas Bay is a saltwater bay in St. Johns County, Florida; the entrance to the bay from the South Atlantic is via St. Augustine inlet. Technically this stretch of water running along the city's waterfront is part of the ...
Matanzas (Cuban Spanish pronunciation:; Lucumi: Ayá Áta) [4] is the capital of the Cuban province of Matanzas.Known for its poets, culture, and Afro-Cuban folklore, it is located on the northern shore of the island of Cuba, on the Bay of Matanzas (Spanish Bahia de Matanzas), 90 kilometres (56 mi) east of the capital Havana and 32 kilometres (20 mi) west of the resort town of Varadero.
In 1740, a British invasion force from Fort Frederica, Georgia blockaded this inlet, the southernmost access for boat travel between St. Augustine and Havana, Cuba. Shortly thereafter, in 1742, a coquina stone tower 50 feet (15 m) square by 30 feet (9.1 m) high, now called Fort Matanzas , was built by the Spanish authorities in Florida to ...