Year: 2022

Facts About Gainesville Gainesville is home to Florida’s largest and oldest university and is one of the state’s centres of education, medicine, cultural events and athletics. The University of Florida, the fourth-largest public university campus by enrollment in the United States as of the 2021–2022 academic year and UF Health Hospital. Gainesville is the county…

Facts About Miramar Miramar was founded by A.L. Mailman to serve as a “bedroom community” for nearby Miami and Fort Lauderdale. Miramar was incorporated on May 26, 1955, and was named for the Miramar area of Havana, Cuba where Mailman had a summer home. Miramar has a total area of 31.3 square miles, of which…

Facts About Tallahassee Tallahassee stems from a Muskogean Indian word, The literal translation of the word means “old fields”. The Creek Indians migrated through this area during the 18th and 19th centuries and gave the city its name, which stuck till today. Tallahassee is the capital city of the United States of Florida, it gained…

Facts About Lehigh Acres Lehigh Acres was developed in the mid-1950s by Chicago businessman Lee Ratner. Lehigh Acres is located in eastern Lee County at WikiMiniAtlas26°36′30″N 81°38′21″W (26.608333, -81.639167). The Lehigh Acres CDP has a total area of 94.2 square miles, of which 92.7 square miles are land and 1.5 square miles is water. The…

Facts About Clearwater Clearwater is the home of the Clearwater Marine Aquarium. The aquarium is home to the bottle-nose dolphin featured in the movie, Dolphin Tale. The global headquarters of the Church of Scientology is located in Clearwater. The Church refers to Clearwater as their “Flag Land Base.” Clearwater has a total area of 39.2…

Facts About Palm Bay The Timucua people, attracted to the mouth of Turkey Creek at the Indian River by freshwater springs, fish, oysters, and wildlife, are thought to have been the first inhabitants in the Palm Bay area. Palm Bay has a total area of 68.8 square miles, of which 65.7 square miles is land…

Facts About Cape Coral Cape Coral’s history began in 1957 when two brothers from Baltimore, Maryland, Leonard and Jack Rosen, flew over the peninsula known as Redfish Point, across the Caloosahatchee River near present-day Fort Myers. In 1957, Cape Coral was founded as Redfish Point. On September 28, 2022, Cape Coral suffered major damage when…

Hialeah, Florida Hialeah is a beautiful and growing city in Miami-Dade County, Florida, United States. Hialeah is the sixth-largest city in the state with a population of 224,669 and its the principal city of the Miami metropolitan area, which has a population of 829,440. The city has undergone many political, economic and social transformations over…

Facts About Hialeah Hialeah was Incorporation as a city on September 10th, 1925. The city’s name is most commonly attributed to Muskogee origin, “Haiyakpo” (prairie) and “hili” (pretty) combining “Hialeah” to mean “pretty prairie”. The total area of Hialeah is 19.7 square miles, of which 19.2 square miles of it is land and 0.5 square…