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Key Largo is located at (25.106637, -80.429917 It shares the island of Key Largo with Tavernier to the southwest and North Key Largo to the northeast. U.S. Route 1, the Overseas Highway, runs the length of the community, leading north 57 miles (92 km) to Miami and southwest 97 miles (156 km) to Key West.
Key Largo (Spanish: Cayo Largo) is an island in the upper Florida Keys archipelago and is the largest section of the keys, at 33 miles (53 km) long. It is one of the northernmost of the Florida Keys in Monroe County , and the northernmost of the keys connected by U.S. Highway 1 (the Overseas Highway ).
The Bayside Bridge is a girder bridge in Pinellas County which crosses over the northwesternmost end of Tampa Bay, connecting Clearwater, Florida and Largo, Florida. Construction began in the early 1990s and was completed in the summer of 1993, officially opening for traffic on June 2 of that year.
Caribbean Club on Key Largo, northernmost of the Florida Keys, was developed and built by auto parts and real estate promoter Carl Graham Fisher in 1938.. Carl Fisher, considered a genius as a promoter, had conceived the Lincoln Highway, the first road across America, in 1913.
Monroe County is the southernmost county of the state of Florida. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 82,874. [2] Its county seat is Key West. [3] Monroe County includes the islands of the Florida Keys and comprises the Key West-Key Largo Micropolitan Statistical Area.
North Key Largo is an unincorporated area and census-designated place (CDP) in Monroe County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,431 at the 2020 census , [ 2 ] up from 1,244 in 2010 . It includes two private clubs, the Ocean Reef Club and the Key Largo Anglers Club, and is reached from the mainland via the Card Sound Bridge .
Molasses Reef is a coral reef located within the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. It lies to the southeast of Key Largo, within the Key Largo Existing Management Area, which is immediately to the east of John Pennekamp Coral Reef State Park. This reef is within a Sanctuary Preservation Area (SPA).
By 1901, George Henri Lizotte, a French travel agent, opened the first Pass-a-Grille hotel, the Bonhomie. [4] The first schoolhouse in Pass-a-Grille was built in 1914, for $1,000, and opened its doors to students in the winter of 1915. [3] The Don CeSar hotel opened on the north side of Pass-a-Grille in 1928, spurring more development. [5]