{"id":125,"date":"2009-08-26T09:05:22","date_gmt":"2009-08-26T09:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/?p=125"},"modified":"2009-08-26T09:05:22","modified_gmt":"2009-08-26T09:05:22","slug":"a-brief-history-of-clearwater-florida-usa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/2009\/08\/26\/a-brief-history-of-clearwater-florida-usa\/","title":{"rendered":"A Brief History of Clearwater Florida USA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A city in the Tampa Bay Area of Pinellas County, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/usa\/florida-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">Florida<\/a>, Clearwater has a history going back to the 1830\u2019s when the construction of Fort Harrison was started on a bluff overlooking Clearwater Harbour. Previous to this, the area was inhabited by the Tocobaga people, at least since the 16<sup>th<\/sup> century. Fort Harrison was built as an outpost during the Seminole Wars, later in the 1840\u2019s, land in the area was offered to anyone who would bear arms and a number of families took up the challenge and obtained sizeable tracts of land in the region. Originally called Clear Water Harbour (referring to a nearby fresh water spring), the city continued to grow, although at the turn of the 20<sup>th<\/sup> century it only had around 400 inhabitants. During WW2 Clearwater was used as a training base for troops heading for Europe from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/usa\/usa-map.html\" target=\"_blank\">USA<\/a>, it has since become a popular tourist destination, especially the Clearwater Beach area which boasts some fantastic beaches and excellent facilities. Clearwater is also the HQ of the Church of Scientology. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.my-towns.co.uk\/usa\/clearwater-map-fl.html\" target=\"_blank\">Clearwater Map<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A city in the Tampa Bay Area of Pinellas County, Florida, Clearwater has a history going back to the 1830\u2019s when the construction of Fort Harrison was started on a bluff overlooking Clearwater Harbour. Previous to this, the area was inhabited by the Tocobaga people, at least since the 16th century. Fort Harrison was built [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,25],"tags":[155,154],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":127,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125\/revisions\/127"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mapamundo.co.uk\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}