Moving Companies in Florida (FL)

FLORIDA

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Here is a brief introduction to the state of Florida

Capital City: Tallahassee
Nicknames: Sunshine State, Orange State, Alligator State, Everglades State, Peninsular State, Southern-most State.
Population over 17 million residents

State’s Flag: The state flag, adopted in 1899, has a red diagonal cross that frames the state seal. The seal features an Indian woman strewing flowers. In the background is a sabal palm (the state tree) and a steamboat sailing past the rising sun.

Wrapper in the warm breezes of the Gulf Stream and endless miles of clear coastal water, Florida has been touted from its earliest days as a paradise on Earth. Every year some 40 million visitors and 300,000 new residents flock to the Sunshine State. Giddy with the state’s growth, Floridians have struggled to balance the benefits of development with the need to preserve natural resources. Florida is, on the one hand, the land of NASA, Disney World, and Miami Beach; on the other, the land of the manatee, the Everglades, and the Keys.

Throughout its history Florida has endeavored to live up to the hyperbole that accompanies its golden climate. In the early years it failed miserably. Like most explorers of the time, the first European visitors wanted their discovery to sound like Eden itself. When the Spanish adventurer Juan Ponce de Le6n arrived in 1513, he found neither the gold nor the fountain of youth that, legend claims, he was seeking; worse, when he returned eight years later to create a settlement, he was killed by an Indian arrow.

Four decades later the French explorer Jean Ribault described the land as “the fairest, fruit fullest and pleasantest of all the worlds.” The 30 settlers he left behind quickly ran out of food and resorted to cannibalism to survive. Ribault subsequently carved out a settlement at the mouth of the St. Johns River, only to have it demolished in 1565 by a Spanish admiral named Pedro Menendez de Aviles. After killing most of the settlers, sparing only a few Catholics and some women and children, he then had the remaining colonists hanged. Two years later the French retaliated, torching a Spanish fort and executing those who survived the fire.

Between battles, Menendez found time to build St. Augustine, which since then has managed to withstand skirmishes among the Spanish, British, Americans, and Indians and which has the distinction of being the oldest surviving settlement in the United States. Today its residents welcome the many tourists who come to see the remnants of Florida’s Spanish past: Castillo de San Marcos (1672), the oldest masonry fort in the country; a schoolhouse built in the mid-18^th century; and a cathedral from the 1790s.

In 1821 Spain cedes Florida to United States. In 1832 Seminole Indians refuse to be relocated to reservations in the West, leading to the Seminole Wars. In 1845 Florida joins the Union as 27^th state. In 1950 Cape Canaveral sends off its first rocket. In 1969 Apollo 11 astronauts, launched from Kennedy Space Center, become first people to walk on moon. In 1971 Walt Disney World opens. In 1986 Space shuttle Challenger explodes, killing entire crew. In 1988 Space shuttle Discovery is launched successfully. In 1992 Hurricane Andrew destroys a 60-mile area in southern Florida, causing about $30 billion in damage. In 1993 Janet Reno, State Attorney for Dade County, is appointed Attorney General of the U.S. by President Bill Clinton, the first woman to serve in that position. In 1996 City of Miami celebrates its centennial. In 2004 a series of hurricanes devastates Florida, killing 117 people and resulting in $42 billion in property damage.

Service industries: Medical offices, law firms, hotels, amusement parks, real estate.

Manufacturing: Electrical and communication equipment, food processing, printed materials.

Agriculture: Oranges, grapefruits, limes, tangerines, tomatoes, sugarcane, indoor foliage plants.

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