All About Florida
Did you know that for ever person that lives in Florida, four more people visit the state every year? Tourism makes up eighty-one percent of Florida's gross state product. Also, "no trip is complete without tasting a fresh-picked orange or a slice of Key lime pie" (Heinrichs 11). The excellent weather and awesome beaches in Florida are irresistible to tourists. Florida's early history, geography, climate, wildlife, and economy will be explained thoroughly in this paper.
Florida was first settled over 12,000 years ago when people from Asia migrated to the Americas over the Bering Land Bridge. The first European to set foot on the North American continent was the Spaniard Juan Ponce de León. In Spain, there were rumors of a spring bubbling with the magical waters of youth (Heinrichs 15). He set out determined to uncover many rumors about the New World. On March 27th, 1513, he went ashore near present-day St. Augustine and called the area La Florida for one of two reasons.......
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