Sarasota
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- Names
Sarasota
Sara Zota
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Resort city in W central Florida on Sarasota Bay; around 1910 Chicago socialite Mrs. Potter Palmer promoted tourism & built a ranch here; in 1927 John Ringling chose site as winter headquarters for the Ringling Bros. & Barnum & Bailey Circus.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
- Died
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