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Dec 13, 2025
Steph's Southern Soul Restaurant: A Dade City Favorite
Steph's Southern Soul Restaurant is a small bright spot where you'll feel welcome as soon as you walk in. Inside, good Southern food is all served buffet style.
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Dec 13, 2025
Hotel Ponce De Leon: Now Flagler College
Hotel Ponce de Leon is a magnificent historic structure that now serves as Flagler College.
Dec 13, 2025
Arcadia, Florida: Cowboys, Rodeos, and Watermelons
Arcadia, Florida is an Old Florida town in DeSoto County. It is in the heart of cattle country, but grows plenty of citrus and watermelons too.
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Dec 13, 2025
Seaside, Florida: Prototype of New Urbanism
Seaside Florida is a lovely place to visit, but expensive to live in. It is the first example of New Urbanism.
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Dec 12, 2025
Historic Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation
Historic Haile Homestead at Kanapaha Plantation is on 40 acres in Gainesville. Built in 1856, it anchors a preserved 19th-century cotton plantation.
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Dec 12, 2025
Laura (Riding) Jackson Home in Vero Beach
Laura (Riding) Jackson Home is located on the Mueller Campus of Indian River State College in Vero Beach. The 1910 house was home of avant-garde poet.
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Dec 12, 2025
Frostproof City Hall
Frostproof City Hall is a striking Mediterranean Revival structure originally built as the Old Frostproof High School in 1926.
Dec 12, 2025
S.H. Kress Building Sarasota
S.H. Kress Building in Sarasota, Florida, is a striking example of art deco commercial architecture that was originally a "five and dime" department store.
Dec 12, 2025
Sanibel Island Lighthouse
Sanibel Island Lighthouse, also known as Point Ybel Light, stands 98 feet tall on the eastern tip of Sanibel Island. It was first lit on August 20, 1884.
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