Dunedin, Florida Dunedin, Florida Dunedin /d ni d n/ is a town/city in Pinellas County, Florida, United States.
Dunedin is home to a several beaches, including Dunedin Causeway, Honeymoon Island, and Caladesi Island State Park, which is persistently rated among the best beaches in the world. Dunedin is one of the several open waterfront communities from Sarasota to Cedar Key where buildings do not completely obscure the view of the Intracoastal Waterway and the Gulf of Mexico beyond; a 1-mile (1.6 km) stretch of Edgewater Drive (also known as Alternate US 19) south of downtown offers views of St.
The Pinellas Trail, a 39-mile-long (63 km) bicycle and pedestrian trail that traverses all of Pinellas County, bisects downtown Dunedin.
Since 1977, Dunedin is the spring training home of the Toronto Blue Jays, as well as the class-A Dunedin Blue Jays of the Florida State League.
Dunedin is one of the smallest communities used by Major League spring training teams, although surrounded by a large urbane area.
Florida Auto Exchange Stadium is situated next to the Dunedin Public Library a several blocks south of downtown on Douglas Avenue, and is just two blocks east of Edgewater Drive.
Until early 2005, Dunedin was the home of Nielsen Media Research's manufacturing operations.
The town/city is home to multiple breweries including Dunedin Brewery, Florida's earliest microbrewery.
Location of Dunedin in Pinellas County, Florida Dunedin is positioned at 28 01 31 N 82 46 31 W, which is the approximate geographic center of the city.
Dunedin is bordered by the town/city of Clearwater to the south and east, the Gulf of Mexico to the west, and by Palm Harbor (an unincorporated improve of Pinellas County) to the north.
Within the town/city limits of Dunedin, there are four enhance elementary schools (Curtis Fundamental, Dunedin, Garrison-Jones, San Jose), one enhance middle school (Dunedin Highland), and one enhance high school (Dunedin High School).
There are two charter schools (Athenian Academy of Pinellas and Academie Da - Vinci), two private schools (Anchor Academy and Dunedin Academy) and one Catholic school, Our Lady of Lourdes.
Until July 2006, Dunedin was the home of the chief campus of Schiller International University. The college main ground is now in Largo. In 2003 the business merged its employees in a new complex in Oldsmar, Florida, with workers from Dunedin and other areas in Pinellas County moving into the Oldsmar building. First settled in 1852, Dunedin has the distinct ion of being the earliest town south of Cedar Key, Florida.
With a dock assembled to accommodate larger sailing vessels, Dunedin became one of Florida's chief seaport and trading centers and at one time it had the biggest fleet of sailing vessels in the state. Dunedin became incorporated as a town in 1899 in part as a response to various complaints about pigs running rampant in the settlement, dominant to a still-standing ban on livestock inside town/city limits.
By 1913, the town had a populace of only 350. It became incorporated as the City of Dunedin in 1925. During and shortly before World War II the Food Machinery Corporation factory in Dunedin (now demolished) was the major site for the manufacturing of the Landing Vehicle Tracked advanced by FMC Dunedin's Engineers and Donald Roebling of Clearwater from Roebling's own Alligator. Davies. Until barracks and maintenance facilities were completed, the school and its students were homed in the Hotel Dunedin.
In mid-1944, the Marine unit in Dunedin was transferred to Camp Pendleton, California. Dunedin's Scottish-American Society maintains Dunedin's Scottish heritage.
Sister town/city to Stirling, Scotland, Dunedin has maintained and embraced its Scottish roots.
Once a year, Scottish clans descend upon the town/city for the Dunedin Highland Games.
Both Dunedin High School and Dunedin Highland Middle School have competition-level pipe and drum bands.
The high school's marching band is known as the Scottish Highlander Band, and both teen and adult members make up the City of Dunedin Pipe and Drum Corps.
The City of Dunedin presently operates under a nonpartisan commissioner-manager form of government.
Currently, the Dunedin City Commission is made up of Mayor Julie Ward Bujalski, Vice-Mayor Heather Gracy, Commissioner John Tornga, Commissioner Deborah Kynes, and Commissioner Bruce Livingston.
The Community Redevelopment Agency (CRA) oversees downtown projects and the needs of downtown Dunedin merchants and tourism.
The town/city of Dunedin contains a Parks & Recreation Department, which provides low-cost recreation programming to the city's residents.
In 2007, Dunedin opened its newest and biggest recreation facility, the Dunedin Community Center at a cost of just over $10 million.
The universal was proposed by Kim Marston, a seventh generation Dunedin resident, and mostly paid for by the "Penny for Pinellas" tax.
Petersburg Times wrote that Marston "figured that since the county needs recreation programs of its own and the town/city needs a new improve center, why not ask the county to pay for the universal in exchange for access to the new facility." Marston's proposal marked a turning point for the town/city as it saved Dunedin taxpayers millions, and allowed Dunedin officials to replenish vital strategic reserves.
The Dunedin Fine Art Center (DFAC), opened in 1975 has grown to be one of the most famous centers for visual art instruction and exhibition in the southeastern United States.
Recreation Center, the Hale Activity Center, Dunedin Nature Center, and the Highlander Pool Complex.
The course was deeded to the town/city of Dunedin for recreational purposes in 1930 by the Contract Investment Company.
Dunedin reflected the Gaelic origins of its name by playing host to a short lived American shinty club, Dunedin Camanachd, in the mid-2000s.
The city-owned Dunedin Marina has 194 boat slips and is one of the finest municipal marinas on the West Coast of Florida.
The marina is positioned on the intercoastal waterway between Dunedin Causeway and Clearwater Causeways.
It is home to the Dunedin Boat Club, one of Florida's earliest Sailing Clubs.
The Dunedin Public Library has two chapters, the Dunedin Main Library (located at 223 Douglas Ave) and the Friends Branch Library (located at 1920 Pinehurst Rd, which opened in 2007).
As part of their offerings and services, the Dunedin Public Library offers monthly bringy service to homebound inhabitants of Dunedin.
The Dunedin Public Library initiated a Little Free Library boss in Pinellas County.
There are presently thirteen Little Free Libraries inside Dunedin.
The Literacy Council of Upper Pinellas, Inc., which promotes adult literacy in North Pinellas County, serves the Dunedin Public Library. Mike "Pinball" Clemons, player and coach of the CFL's Toronto Argonauts; born and raised in Dunedin, and graduated from Dunedin High School David Nutter, prominent writer for television's The X-Files; graduate of Dunedin High School Dunedin High School Band shell in the park in downtown Dunedin "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Dunedin city, Florida".
Dunedin: The Home of Honeymoon Island.
City of Dunedin.
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