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ACROSS

1. What was the name of the man that built the building downtown Sarasota that you can see your face in
2. What Sarasota County Commissioner that also had an air conditioning business
3. The man who built the Ringling Causeway
5. What beach used to be topless
6. The Scot who had a park named after him
8. In the early 1900's you could stay at this hotel in downtown Sarasota
9. What year was the Sarasota County population around 150,000
11. The family that had 15 children, built one of the first churches, settled in Nokomis and fenced off 150 miles of land.
13. The lady who started teaching at age 14 and had a school named after her.
14. The mayor who built Municipal Auditorium on this bay front land, which became the Civic Center
16. What city had a city manager that carried a gun to work
17. The lady who was Englewood's longest serving postmaster and one of only nine in the U.S.
18. He made his money building radios and his home is now a museum
19. The company that paid $45 per acre for land in North Port and sold homes for around $8000

 

DOWN

1. The estate that hosts art fairs, food tastings and other events
4. What is the name of one of our prominent residents that was bludgeoned to death and which a street is named for him
7. Where could you dance, eat hot dogs and watch the boats
10. The name of a lady who owned 80,000 acres in Sarasota County
12. Father of the Sarasota School of Architecture
15. The name of the hurricane that plowed through Venice in the early 1960's

 

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Answers:
1. Phillipi
2. Anderson
3. JohnRingling
4. Higel
5. Lido
6. Gillespie
7. Downunder
8. PalmsHotel
9. 1977
10. Palmer
11.  Knight
12.Twitchell
13. Booker
14. Smith
15. Donna
16. Venice
17. Johnson
18. Crosley
19. GeneralDevelopment