Venice, Florida Venice, Florida Downtown Venice (West Venice Avenue) Hotel Venice Venice is a town/city in Sarasota County, Florida, United States.
Venice consists of a large section of mainland, as well Venice Island, which is surrounded by the man-made intercoastal waterway.
Venice is a principal town/city of the Bradenton-Sarasota-Venice, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.
The Higel and Curry families chose the name "Venice" for their improve postal service, positioned south of Shakett Creek on what is now Portia Street in the unincorporated improve of Nokomis.
The first barns to Venice was assembled in 1911, paving the way for new evolution and expansion.
Development in Venice occurred slowly, and it remained a small fishing town and farming improve through the first part of the 1920s.
The BLE Realty Corporation was organized to precarious the area, and the Venice Company was created to market property.
Finally on June 10, 1926, the first street in Venice opened to traffic.
The Hotel Venice (now known as Park Place on Nassau Street) opened on June 21, 1926, and residentiary assembly in the town started in July 1926, with the assembly of three large residences in the Gulf View subdivision.
That same year, the town/city of Venice held its first town council meeting and formed the police and fire departments.
Worthington as the first mayor of Venice.
After annexations of encircling areas, the state council changed the designation of Venice from a "town" to "city" on May 9, 1927. Venice was titled after Venice, Italy. The Venice Army Air Base was established in May 1942.
The 27th Service Group was relocated from Mc - Dill Field in Tampa to furnish training for support services to combat air units, and later, the 13th Fighter Squadron, 53rd Fighter Group, was transferred to Venice from Fort Myers.
After World War II, the town/city of Venice acquired the air base from the United States government, with the stipulation that it always be used for aviation or revert to federal ownership. Three of the hijackers in the September 11 attacks, Mohamed Atta, Marwan al-Shehhi, and Ziad Jarrah, took flight training lessons at Huffman Aviation, positioned at the Venice Municipal Airport. Venice is positioned at 27 6 N 82 26 W (27.0987, -82.4390). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 16.6 square miles (43.1 km2), of which 15.3 square miles (39.5 km2) is territory and 1.4 square miles (3.5 km2), or 8.19%, is water. Divers hunting shark teeth at Venice Fish, seashells and shark teeth at Venice Venice has been listed in many publications as being the "Shark's Tooth Capital of the World". It hosts the Shark's Tooth Festival every year to jubilate the abundance of fossilized shark's teeth that can be found on its coastal shores.
Hotel Venice Venice Theatre - The Venice Theatre is the biggest per-capita improve theater in the United States with an operating budget of almost three million dollars Venice Symphony Venice's journal is the Venice Gondolier Sun.
Tampa Bay's Univision partner WVEA-TV is licensed to Venice, though it is based in Tampa and broadcasts from Riverview.
Highway 41, which runs north-south on the side of Florida; Interstate 75 is a short distance east of Venice.
Passenger barns service, served by the Seaboard Coast Line, last ran to the station in 1971, immediately before to the Amtrak assumption of passenger rail operation. Previously Venice was one of the Florida destinations of the Orange Blossom Special. Venice is patrolled by the Venice Police Department, Tom Mattmuller is the current Chief of Police.
There are a total of 47 sworn officers that protect the people of Venice.
Peter Gemma, writer and political activist; former resident of Venice; now lives in Sarasota Sunset on one of the beaches in Venice Venice Avenue Climate data for Venice, Florida Kentucky Military Institute, which wintered in Venice for many years and Barnum & Bailey Circus, whose Clown College originally was positioned in Venice, and whose winter command posts used to be in Venice Tervis Tumbler, a United States drinkware manufacturer with command posts and manufacturing in Venice "Official Website of City of Venice, Florida".
Official Website of City of Venice, Florida.
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Venice city, Florida".
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"Profile for Venice, Florida, FL".
"Venice Theatre History | Venice Theatre".
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"Venice Gondolier Sun".
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"Venice, Florida Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
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