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  2. Fisher Island, Florida - Wikipedia

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    1853250 [4] Fisher Island is a census-designated place in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States, located on a barrier island of the same name. Since 2015, Fisher Island has the highest per capita income [5] of any place in the United States. It is located in the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population ...

  3. Indian Creek, Florida - Wikipedia

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    305, 786, 645. FIPS code. 12-33425 [4] Website. indiancreekvillagefl.gov. Indian Creek is a village, gated community, and man-made barrier island [1] in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. It has 41 residential home sites and the Indian Creek Country Club. The village is part of the Miami metropolitan area of South Florida. The ...

  4. Dana A. Dorsey - Wikipedia

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    1872. Quitman, Georgia, U.S. Died. February 29, 1940. Resting place. Lincoln Memorial Park. Occupation (s) Businessman, banker. Dana Albert " D. A. " Dorsey (1872 – February 29, 1940 [1]) was a businessman, banker, and philanthropist who became one of the first African–American millionaires in Florida and the American South.

  5. List of islands of Florida - Wikipedia

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    In the upper Florida Keys Palm Beach Island: 8.12 square miles (21.0 km 2) Palm Beach Barrier island Palm Island: Miami-Dade Artificial island in Biscayne Bay Palm Key: Monroe In Florida Bay: Paradise Island: Osceola In Lake Tohopekaliga Park Key: 70 acres (28 ha) Monroe In the lower Florida Keys Peanut Island: 0.32 square kilometres (0.12 sq ...

  6. Nuestra Señora de Atocha - Wikipedia

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    Nuestra Señora de Atocha. Nuestra Señora de Atocha (Spanish: Our Lady of Atocha) was a Spanish treasure galleon and the most widely known vessel of a fleet of ships that sank in a hurricane off the Florida Keys in 1622. At the time of her sinking, Nuestra Señora de Atocha was heavily laden with copper, silver, gold, tobacco, gems, and indigo ...

  7. William Kissam Vanderbilt II - Wikipedia

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    In 1925, he traded the luxury yacht Eagle for ownership of Fisher Island, Florida, a place he used as a winter residence. [8] He built a mansion complete with docking facilities for his yacht, a seaplane hangar, tennis courts, swimming pool, and an eleven-hole golf course. This home was called Alva Base and the architect was Maurice Fatio. [9]

  8. Government Cut - Wikipedia

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    Government Cut as seen from the MacArthur Causeway on 15 March 2008. Government Cut is a manmade shipping channel between Miami Beach and Fisher Island, which allows better access to the Port of Miami in Miami, Florida. Before the cut was established, a single peninsula of dry land stretched from what is now Miami Beach to what is now Fisher ...

  9. David Paresky - Wikipedia

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    Paresky was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1938. He grew up in Burlington, Vermont. Paresky attended Phillips Academy on a scholarship before attending Williams College, also as a scholarship student. [1] He graduated from Williams in 1960 and went on to receive his J.D. from Harvard University in 1963 and then his MBA from Harvard in 1965.