Informative Essay: Florida As A Vacation Place

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Florida is a big place, but it’s also nice and there is a lot of places to visit and see, Florida is mostly known as a vacation spot. In this article I, the typist will tell you the economy, tourist attractions, both historical and general, and political standings, now I start...
Top Five largest cities are Jacksonville, Miami, Tampa, Orlando, and St. Petersburg
There are a lot of historical sites in Florida, I’ve got myself a few places to list, and they are Veterans Memorial wall, located in Bushnell. Beaches museum & history park, located in Jacksonville Beach. Miami Tower, in Miami .Miami circle, located in Miami. Henry B. Plant museum, located in Tampa Bay. Ybor Square, located in Tampa.Orange county regional history center, located
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Next is Florida Keys, a strand of tropical islands off the coast of Florida and span about 100 miles out all together. Third is The Everglades, a big swamp off the coast of Florida, spanning about 1.5 million acres, mostly being a swamp by big lizard nopes and other things that no one would want to run into at any time of day.
Finally there is South Beach, located in Miami, this beach is the beach that people talk about all of the time, saying that they need a vacation there, it has the nickname of being “The Strip” mostly because that the East side is just a long strip of
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Second is Three Rivers State Park, located in The Everglades, and yeah, thats it. Third and final is Caladesi Island state park is about the blandest island to have ever been, but there is that small fraction of people who would like to go to it, it basically is just an island with a tiny town and thats about

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