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The Overseas Highway is a 113-mile (181.9 km) [ 1][ 2] highway carrying U.S. Route 1 (US 1) through the Florida Keys to Key West. Large parts of it were built on the former right-of-way of the Overseas Railroad, the Key West Extension of the Florida East Coast Railway. Completed in 1912, the Overseas Railroad was heavily damaged and partially ...
WWUS (104.1 FM ), known as "US-1 Radio", is a radio station in the Florida Keys, based in Big Pine Key, Florida . The station airs classic hits ( R&B, pop, and rock music from the mid-1950s through the early-1990s) as well as talk programming. WWUS covers the lower and middle Keys, and reaches the coast of Cuba near Havana.
65 feet (20 m) History. Construction cost. $45 million [ 1] (equivalent to $120 million in 2023 dollars) Opened. May 24, 1982. Location. The Seven Mile Bridge is a bridge in the Florida Keys, in Monroe County, Florida, United States. It connects Knight's Key (part of the city of Marathon, Florida) in the Middle Keys to Little Duck Key in the ...
U.S. Highway 1 ( US 1) in Florida runs 545 miles (877 km) along the state's east coast from Key West to its crossing of the St. Marys River into Georgia north of Boulogne and south of Folkston. US 1 was designated through Florida when the U.S. Numbered Highway System was established in 1926. With the exception of Monroe County, the highway runs ...
Little Torch Key. / 24.66566; -81.390603. Little Torch Key is an island in the lower Florida Keys. [1] [2] U.S. Route 1 (also known as the Overseas Highway ), crosses the key at about mile markers 28–29. It is immediately preceded to the northeast by Big Pine Key, and is followed by Middle Torch Key to the southwest. [3]
Florida Keys. / 24.66694°N 81.54417°W / 24.66694; -81.54417. The Florida Keys are a coral cay archipelago off the southern coast of Florida, forming the southernmost part of the continental United States. They begin at the southeastern coast of the Florida peninsula, about 15 miles (24 km) south of Miami and extend in a gentle arc ...
The Florida Keys Eco-Discovery Center is a natural history museum in Key West. [1] Its exhibits cover the plants and animals of the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary. It is operated by Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, NOAA, the South Florida Water Management District, Everglades National Park, Dry Tortugas National Park, the ...
Grassy Key. / 24.761777; -80.955291. Grassy Key, Florida, is an island in the middle Florida Keys. [1] It is located on U.S. 1 (or the Overseas Highway ), near mile markers 57—60, below the Conch Keys. It has an area of 3.65 km², with a population of 974 as of the census 2000. [2]