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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.
Betsch was born into one of the preeminent black families in the South. [6] Her parents were Mary and John Betsch, and her grandparents were Abraham Lincoln Lewis, who founded Florida's second oldest African-American beach (Manhattan Beach to the south was the first), and Mary Kingsley Sammis, the great granddaughter of Zephaniah Kingsley and Anna Kingsley. [7]
The Hippard House (also called Martha's Hideaway) is a historic site in American Beach, Florida. It is located at 5406 Ervin Street. On October 12, 2001, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places.
Florida has teams in all five American major league sports. Florida's most recent major-league team, Inter Miami, began play in MLS in 2020. [305] The Miami Masters is an ATP World Tour Masters 1000 and WTA Premier tennis event, whereas the Delray Beach International Tennis Championships is an ATP World Tour 250 event.
The District of Columbia does not currently have a true beach; several areas (such as Georgetown Waterfront Park) have boundaries along the Potomac river, but lack a true beach. From 1914 to 1925, there was a beach at the District of Columbia’s Tidal Basin .
Fernandina Beach is a city in northeastern Florida and the county seat of Nassau County, Florida, United States. It is the northernmost city on Florida's Atlantic coast, situated on Amelia Island , and is one of the municipalities comprising Greater Jacksonville (formally the Jacksonville, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area ).
Location of Nassau County in Florida. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Nassau County, Florida. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Nassau County, Florida, United States. The locations of National Register properties and ...
American Beach, Florida [11] Bethune Beach, Florida; Bruce Beach in Pensacola, Florida; Butler Beach in St. Johns County, Florida; Hampton House in Miami, Florida [2] Manhattan Beach (now Hanna Park) in Jacksonville, Florida [11] [12] Paradise Park, Florida; Virginia Key Beach in Virginia Key, Florida