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The Florida Strawberry Festival is an annual event taking place in Plant City, Florida. The festival lasts 11 days and generates attendance of about half a million patrons from all across central Florida and other areas. The festival is considered one of the best in Florida and ranks among the Top 40 Fairs in North America. [1]
The bakery was destroyed by a fire in 1922, leaving only the brick bread oven standing. However, Francisco rebuilt the bakery even larger than before and added a second oven, turning it into a major supplier of bread for the Tampa/Ybor area. The bakery itself became a place to congregate, offering coffee and snacks.
Many schools in Florida, especially those in eastern Hillsborough County, were known as "strawberry schools" because they operated on a schedule dictated by the winter strawberry growing season. Historically, these schools closed for three months during the strawberry picking season in the winter months, rather than in the summer like most US ...
When Hurricane Helene battered Florida’s Gulf Coast this week, one of the hardest-hit areas was the small town of Steinhatchee, which was overwhelmed by a 10-foot storm surge and 140 mph winds ...
More than 60,000 healthy, uninfected trees were destroyed in Orange County between 2002 and 2006 as part of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services' efforts to eradicate citrus ...
On the fifth day of the Florida Strawberry Festival, Governor Ron DeSantis signed SB 1006 into law, which designated strawberry shortcake as the official state dessert.
Florida State Road 39 crosses US 92 in the center of Plant City and leads north 15 miles (24 km) to Zephyrhills and south 6 miles (10 km) to Hopewell. According to the United States Census Bureau , Plant City has a total area of 28.1 square miles (72.8 km 2 ), of which 27.2 square miles (70.4 km 2 ) are land and 0.93 square miles (2.4 km 2 ...
Residents of mobile park homes in Bradenton, Florida, were sifting through debris Thursday after Milton tore off roofs and destroyed dwellings. Ben Hendren “I lost my roof, my front awning and ...