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History Venice FL - Tocobago and Caloosa Indians inhabited the area until the ...1800s, when the first settlers arrived. Their family names - ... all » Knight, Higel, Curry, Wrede, Roberts and Blackburn - are still familiar in Venice today. Other people who influenced the development of Venice include Bertha Honore Palmer, Dr. Fred Albee and the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers. The BLE hired John Nolen to design the city in the 1920s. Much of his vision became reality before the economy failed, just ahead of the Great Depression. In the late 1940s, several events helped bring more people to Venice. The Venice Army Air Base was built to train military pilots for World War II. In the 1950s, the Kentucky Military Institute made Venice its winter home. In the 1960s, Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus made its winter headquarters here. In the 1960s, the Intracoastal Waterway was completed through Venice. Nothing was more significant to the growth of Venice and the rest of the state than the advent of mosquito control and central air conditioning. Those improvements made the area one of the most hospitable and comfortable places anywhere to live or visit. To learn more about the area’s history, visit the Venice Archives and Area Historical Collection. See Video (Found on aol video I would like to thank the poster, but have no idea who it is.)
Check out this Book Published in 1905 about our Sister City in Venice, Italy!
Venice Florida is resort city, located Sarasota county, west-central Florida, U.S. It lies along the Gulf of Mexico, about 20 miles (30 km) south of Sarasota. Originally a fishing village settled in the 1870s, it was later planned (c. 1925) as a retirement city for members of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers; the project was abandoned after the stock market crash of 1929, but Venice survived as a small resort noted for tarpon fishing. Originally called Horse and Chaise for a formation of trees that resembled a horse and buggy, the city was renamed in 1888 by a settler who thought the area resembled the Italian city of Venice. It revived after 1960, when it replaced Sarasota as the winter headquarters for the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus.
Light manufacturing (including windows and doors) augments tourism as the city's economic mainstay. Venice is a popular retirement area. Nearby is Oscar Scherer State Park, and there is a spa at Warm Mineral Springs, about 10 miles (16 km) east. Venice is known for the prehistoric sharks' teeth that can be found on its beaches; the annual Sharks Tooth and Seafood Festival is held in August. Inc. 1927. Pop. (1990) 16,922; (2000) 17,764.