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The Museum of Art & History at the rants, clubs and shops where you can buy Myers. The compound is known today as the
Custom House in Key West is South Florida’s hand-rolled cigars. Edison & Ford Winter Estates and features a
most important historic building. Built in Pioneer homes and historical hotels museum, laboratory and botanical gardens.
1891, the red brick national landmark are found in Fort Lauderdale, Boca Raton To the north, not far from the historic
was returned to its former glory in 1999 and West Palm Beach. Two examples are Boca Grande Lighthouse in Gasparilla Island
following a nine-year, US$9-million restora- Stranahan House Museum on the New River State Park, the Gasparilla Inn & Club has
tion project. Exhibitions within expose in Fort Lauderdale and the Bonnet House attracted visitors since 1913.
visitors to a Florida they may have never Museum & Gardens near the Intracoastal Koreshan State Historic Site in Estero was
known. Clinton Square Market, now a bi- Waterway. In The Palm Beaches, the Boca the scene of one of the most unusual
level shopping mall, is housed in an 1800s Raton Resort and Club, the Colony Hotel & chapters in Florida history. In 1894, Cyrus
building that was once a U.S. Navy coal Cabana Club in Delray Beach and the world- Reed Teed founded the Koreshan Unity, a
depot. Historic Key West also offers the famous Breakers Hotel in Palm Beach are community of followers who believed the
Harry S. Truman Little White House, a examples of Florida architecture from the universe existed within a giant, hollow
favorite vacation spot for the president in the 1920s. The Breakers actually dates back to the sphere. Today, the site has 11 well-
late 1940s and early 1950s, and The Ernest late 1890s when railroad magnate Henry maintained historical structures dating from
Hemingway Home & Museum. Flagler began bringing northern visitors to 1882–1920 as well as landscaped grounds
Other cultural sites in the region include Florida, but after the hotel’s second with exotic ornamental plants from around
Miami’s historic Lyric Theater, which was a disastrous fire, it was rebuilt in 1926. the world.
major entertainment center for African In Bradenton, the Gamble Plantation
Americans in the state’s segregated society. SOUTHWEST Historic State Park is the only remaining
A few blocks to the south, Little Havana Inventor Thomas Edison and his friend antebellum plantation house in South
reflects Miami’s Cuban heritage, with restau- Henry Ford built their Florida homes in Fort Florida. Nearby, the town of Palmetto boasts

RINGLING MUSEUM OF ART COURTYARD, SARASOTA • SHUTTERSTOCK/MARIAKRAY

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