Alligator-Shaped Xbox Will Be Snapped Up by One Gamer
This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
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Longboat Key, Florida. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Manatee. Associated ZIP codes: 34228.
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Tampa-born Florida Avenue Brewing Co. permanently closes its Seminole Heights location
The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
GOP sweep: Uthmeier, Ingoglia, Simpson win Florida Cabinet races
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
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Longboat Key is in Manatee County, Florida.
Region: Central Florida
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Alligator-Shaped Xbox Will Be Snapped Up by One Gamer
This iconic Florida critter appears to have swallowed an Xbox just a couple of weeks before the release of GTA 6.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
Tampa-born Florida Avenue Brewing Co. permanently closes its Seminole Heights location
The craft brewery’s closure aligns with an increasing trend of similar taproom closures throughout Tampa Bay.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
GOP sweep: Uthmeier, Ingoglia, Simpson win Florida Cabinet races
Republicans on Tuesday night swept the races for attorney general, chief financial officer and agriculture commissioner.
Nov 4, 2026Open source
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Longboat Key, a town on the barrier island of the same name in Manatee and Sarasota counties, was first explored by Europeans when Juan de Añasco, a scout for Hernando de Soto, spent about two months looking for a landing site and became probably the first European to see Sarasota Bay. By local legend, the Natives fled when his party landed, leaving a longboat in a bayou, which gave the key its name. The pirate Jean Lafitte is said to have been shipwrecked nearby.
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Before 1842 Cuban and Spanish fishermen and some squatters lived on the island, with a fishing camp and a trading post for Native people at the north end, in today's Longboat Village; maps called the area Saraxola or Zarazote, and an 1839 map made for General Zachary Taylor called it Palm Island. Little is known from 1848 to the 1880s after a hurricane devastated the key, except that Charles Abbe grew citrus and pineapples there. In 1882 Colin and Rowlin W. Witt claimed 7.15 acres on the north end, the first land claims by people of European descent, and in 1884 Thomas Mann claimed 144.5 acres and moved his family there in 1888. During World War II part of the island served as a bombing range. Sources Wikipedia: Longboat Key, Florida The Historical Marker Database: World War II Bombing Range
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27.3866900, -82.6384030
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Manatee County
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