10 Interesting Facts about Florida | 10 Interesting Facts
Florida is a tourist magnet; the state has loads of things to offer and be enjoyed start from the Disney World, Busch Gardens, South beach, Sea World, Key Wes, Miami, Crystal River and many other more.
In this post, I am going to tell you view interesting facts about Florida that will add new knowledge in your memory. Stick with the post and let’s go to our first Florida facts .
1. Florida is taken from Spanish Language means “Feast of Flowers” and Haines city is believed as the “Heart of Florida”
florida
2. Pensacola city will celebrate its 452th anniversary of Spanish settlement attempt this year (2011). Miles from the city, St. Augustine will celebrate its 450 th birthday by 2015
Pensacola city
3. Every year, Florida is hit by strong lightning and they are killing 10 people and injure 30 other annually.
4. Fort Mose was the first black person who was freed from slavery in North of St. Augustine at North America in 1738. View hundred years before that year, St. Augustine was founded in 1565 by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés.
St Augustine landmark
5. Orlando, a location of Walt Disney world , is the busiest and the most crowded amusement park among other amusements sites in United States. In Lakeland, still in Florida, we can enjoy world’s biggest collection of Frank Lloyd Wright buildings and constructions.
Walt Disney Orlando
6. The First Christmas in Florida was held in the Tallahassee . First man who did it was a Spanish Explorer name Hernado de Soto in 1539.
tallahassee
7. St. Augustine is the oldest European colony in United States
8. One of the view explorers who visited Florida for the first time is Juan Ponce de León . He will celebrate his 500 th year arrival in Florida by 2013.
Juan Ponce de Leon
9. The deepest freshwater spring in the world is located in Wakulla Springs at Northern Florida. Other cool thing, there is no river sailboat race in the world which is longer than Florida’s annual mug race competition
wakula spring
10. St. Augustine was the first city in North America that held European Thanksgiving celebration for the first time.
First Thanksgiving - St. Augustine
These 10 facts about Florida are only view cool things about the state. If you want to help me input new cool thing information about the state, I hope you don’t mind to use comment box below.
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