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Podcast: Small Town News
Episode: Longboat Key, FL - We Build an Island Out of Trash for Our Banana Ball Game
Description: Welcome to Longboat Key, Florida! Longboat Key is located on a barrier island of the same name off the Gulf Coast of Central Florida in Manatee and Sarasota Counties. Longboat Key along with several other barrier islands separate Sarasota Bay and the Gulf of Mexico. Longboat Key was originally inhabited by the Timucuan and Caloosa tribes. The island was sparsely inhabited until the late 1880s when Thomas Mann and his family became the first permanent residents on the island. The town developed slowly and growth was continually stymied by hurricanes through the 1920s. The town was officially incorporated in 1955 and de...