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    The Florida Citrus Tower is a 226-foot-tall (69 m) structure in Clermont, Florida. Built in 1956 to allow visitors to observe the miles of surrounding...
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    Metropolitan Statistical Area. Clermont is home to the 1956 Florida Citrus Tower, one of Florida's early landmarks. Clermont was founded in 1884, and named...
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    century, people started to grow citrus trees. Citrus was introduced by Melton Haynes. Throughout the 1940s and 50s, citrus production increased and grew...
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  • citrus fruit grown in the United States. Bell peppers, tomatoes, sugarcane, peaches, strawberries, and watermelons are also important crops. Florida produces...
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    William John Howey (category American citrus farmers)
    developer, citrus grower and Republican politician from Florida. He founded and served as mayor for the town of Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida. He developed...
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    Lake Placid Tower in Lake Placid, Florida, formerly named Placid Tower, Tower of Peace or Happiness Tower, is a closed observation tower 240 feet (73...
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    interchange without exit numbers at SR 50 in Clermont. After passing the Florida Citrus Tower and Presidents Hall of Fame, the road enters Minneola along the east...
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    College of Central Florida (CF) is a public college with campuses in Marion, Citrus, and Levy counties. It is part of the Florida College System. Founded...
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    Situation: Citrus" (PDF). USDA. April 2004. Archived from the original (PDF) on June 4, 2012. Rusnak, Paul (March 27, 2021). "More Florida Mangoes, Please...
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    orlandosentinel.com. Retrieved 26 March 2018. "Timeline of Major Florida Freezes - Florida Citrus Mutual". flcitrusmutual.com. Retrieved 26 March 2018. "Orlando...
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  • facility to "Zoo Orlando at Sanford". Florida Citrus Tower, a 226-foot (69 m) tall observation tower in Clermont, Florida Fun Spot America Theme Parks. Two...
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    line. Motorists can see the Florida Citrus Tower well before the intersection with CR 561(12th Street), where the tower itself can be found on the north...
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    The Citrus Center, also known as the BB&T building, originally known as the CNA Tower, is a commercial office building in Orlando, Florida, United States...
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    agriculture—citrus groves, cattle ranches, and hog farms, as well as turpentine stills and sawmills. Largo is best remembered as "Citrus City", from the...
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  • The following is a list of county roads in Citrus County, Florida. All county roads are maintained by the county in which they reside. County Road 39 is...
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    related to Old Citrus County Courthouse. The Old Citrus County Courthouse (constructed in 1912) is a historic site in Inverness, Florida located at 1 Courthouse...
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    Although Citrus, Hernando, Hillsborough, Pasco, and Pinellas are also considered to be the Tampa Bay area. Like many vernacular regions, Central Florida's boundaries...
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    Orlando is the largest of urban centers in Central Florida. It is home to residential and commercial towers; local, state, and federal government offices;...
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    hub of Florida's citrus industry. The period ended with the Great Freeze of 1894–95, which forced many owners to give up their independent citrus groves...
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    north of Polk County, the area became the focal point for citrus growing in Florida. Although citrus is no longer the largest industry in the area, it still...
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    Little Havana (Spanish: Pequeña Habana) is a neighborhood of Miami, Florida, United States. Home to many Cuban exiles, as well as many immigrants from...
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    sawmill, and an express-office in 1883, and a population of 150 in 1884. Citrus growing became important in the area, and in 1885 the town had two sawmills...
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    CNL Financial Group (category 1973 establishments in Florida)
    The original CNA tower (the Citrus Center) was downtown Orlando's first modern skyscraper when it was completed in 1971. A new CNL Tower was constructed...
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    channel is about 44 feet (13 m) deep. The port exports fresh citrus; bulk-frozen citrus juice stored in one of the largest freezer warehouses in the state;...
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    Bend of Florida, United States, is an informally named geographic region of North Florida where the Florida Panhandle transitions to the Florida Peninsula...
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    Hurricane Helene (category 2024 in Florida)
    was the strongest hurricane on record to strike the Big Bend region of Florida, the deadliest Atlantic hurricane since Maria in 2017, and the deadliest...
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    after Florida-born William Chase Temple, one-time owner of the Pittsburgh Pirates, founder of the Temple Cup, and first president of the Florida Citrus Exchange...
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  • across the U.S. state of Florida, together with summaries of their locations and main focuses. There are additional lists of Florida's defunct and proposed...
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    Bradford County is a county in the north central region of the U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 census, the population was 28,303. Its county seat and...
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    The city experienced tremendous growth in the 1880s and 1890s from Florida's citrus industry. Northerners moved to the area in droves to take a stake in...
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