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Pinellas (FL) county

Pinellas County är ett administrativt område i delstaten Florida, USA, med 916 542 invånare. Den administrativa huvudorten (county seat) är Clearwater.

Översikt

Historik

During the early 16th century Spanish explorers discovered and slowly began exploring Florida, including Tampa Bay. In 1528 Panfilo de Narvaez landed in Pinellas, and 10 years later Hernando de Soto is thought to have explored the Tampa Bay Area. By the early 18th century the Tocobaga had been virtually annihilated, having fallen victim to European diseases from which they had no immunity, as well as European conflicts. Later Spanish explorers named the area Punta Piñal (Spanish for ”Point of Pines” or ”Piney Point”). After trading hands multiple times between the British and the Spanish, Spain finally ceded Florida to the United States in 1821, and in 1823 the U.S. Army established Fort Brooke (later Tampa).

In 1834 much of west central Florida, including the Pinellas peninsula (then known simply as West Hillsborough), was organized as Hillsborough County. The very next year Odet Philippe, a French Huguenot from Charleston, South Carolina became the first permanent, non-native resident of the peninsula when he established a plantation near the site of the Tocobaga village in Safety Harbor. It was Philippe who first introduced both citrus culture and cigar-making to Florida.

Around the same time, the United States Army began construction of Fort Harrison, named after William Henry Harrison, as a rest post for soldiers from nearby Fort Brooke during the Second Seminole War. The new fort was located on a bluff overlooking Clear Water Harbor, which later became part of an early 20th-century residential development (now historic district) called Harbor Oaks. University of South Florida archaeologists excavated the site in 1977 after Alfred C. Wyllie discovered an underground ammunition bunker while digging a swimming pool on his estate. Clearwater would later become the first organized community on the peninsula as well as the site of its first post office.

The Armed Occupation Act, passed in 1842, encouraged further settlement of Pinellas, like all of Florida, by offering 160 acres (0.65 km2) to anyone who would bear arms and cultivate the land. Pioneer families like the Booths, the Coachmans, the Marstons, and the McMullens established homesteads in the area in the years following, planting more citrus groves and raising cattle. During the American Civil War, many residents fought for the Confederate States of America. Brothers James and Daniel McMullen were members of the Confederate Cow Cavalry, driving Florida cattle to Georgia and the Carolinas to help sustain the war effort. John W. Marston served in the 9th Florida Regiment as a part of the Appomattox Campaign. Many other residents served in other capacities. Otherwise the peninsula had virtually no significance during the war, and the war largely passed the area by.

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  • City
    • Belleair Beach (2)
    • Belleair Bluffs (3)
    • Clearwater (5)
    • Dunedin (6)
    • Gulfport (7)
    • Indian Rocks Beach (8)
    • Largo (11)
    • Madeira Beach (12)
    • Oldsmar (14)
    • Pinellas Park (15)
    • Safety Harbor (18)
    • Seminole (19)
    • South Pasadena (20)
    • Saint Pete Beach (21)
    • Tarpon Springs (23)
    • Treasure Island (24)
  • Town
    • Belleair (1)
    • Belleair Shore (4)
    • Indian Shores (9)
    • Kenneth City (10)
    • North Redington Beach (13)
    • Redington Beach (16)
    • Redington Shores (17)
  • CDP
    • Bardmoor
    • Bear Creek
    • East Lake
    • Feather Sound
    • Greenbriar
    • Harbor Bluffs
    • Lealman
    • Palm Harbor
    • Ridgecrest
    • South Highpoint
    • Tierra Verde
    • West Lealman
  • Unincorporated
    • Baskin
    • Crystal Beach
    • Curlew
    • Gandy
    • Highpoint
    • Innisbrook
    • Oakhurst
    • Ozona
    • St. George
    • Seminole Park
    • Wall Springs
    • Walsingham
plats/us/pinellas.fl.co.txt · Senast uppdaterad: 2023/05/26 14:29 av 127.0.0.1