Talk:Venice, Florida

Notable people
There are four people currently listed in this section (Hector A. Cafferata, Jr., Stephen King, Scott Palguta and Steve Trout) and I am unable to find any reliable source connecting them to Venice. Please reference this information if you find it. Thank you.--BuzyBody (talk) 20:04, 20 September 2012 (UTC)

I want to leave a large block quote from a Sarasota County historic report that shares information on a local pioneer. There is some debate as to whether Higel is notable enough to include his story in Venice's history. I am going to revert my edit back in but if anyone else believes Higel's story doesn't belong, I am open to it being removed. Any spelling errors below were copied directly from the report.

"General Development: Francis H. "Frank" Higel, a native of France, and his        wife, Addie, moved from Philadelphia to Horse and Chaise (present day Venice)         in 1883, where they purchased 73 acres of "choice fertile land" in Rnbert         Roberts,' homestead. Frank Higells large family, consisting of six sons, Frank         Jr., Harry, Ralph, Eugene, George and Wesley, all helped raise garden crops         and commercially process fruits into marmalades, syrups and wines (Matthews         1989:128-129). By 1885 Frank Rigel had applied for and established a post         office, which he called Eyry, to serve 30 inhabitants in the community of         Horse and Chaise. This post office only remained in operation from February         to November when mail service was returned to Webb's osprey post office         (Matthews 1989). Frank Higel killed himself in 1892 during a domestic dispute, but his family remained in Florida. The 1897 General Directory of        Manatee County isted 16 residents in the Venice area, including George and Ralph Higel, farmers. Frank Jr. became a school teacher in Venice. Harry was active in real estate and commerce in the new town of Sarasota. George Higel became the Venice correspondent for the Sarasota, writing under the pseudonym "Nemoll, the name of his father's schooner. Ralph and his wife, Tub,        operated their home, Moss Oak, as a resort guest house, similar to the Webb's         resort at Spanish Point." — Preceding Amscheip (talk) 20:59, 7 January 2022 (UTC)

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 * For the time being, I'm simply removing the History section that was left. I have commented the section here for easy viewing, just edit this page to see the content:

--– TheGridExe  ( talk )  02:05, 28 April 2018 (UTC)

Is "Venice Island" an island?
I added a factually accurate footnote to the second sentence explaining how it is that the area that locals refer to as "Venice Island" is not an island. This was reverted. I would appreciate an explanation as to why. Daybreak100 (talk) 01:44, 3 December 2019 (UTC)
 * Looks like it was reverted by as it appeared to be original research. This article is still suffering from the lack of a history section due to a copyright violation, it would probably be ideal to mention the dredging that took place in 1964 for how "Venice Island" came to existence:
 * Sarasota Herald Tribune has a good overall article about it from 2014:
 * Here's also an archive of public hearings from the proposal of the ICW: –  The Grid  ( talk )  22:21, 3 December 2019 (UTC)