Fort Vinton, also known as "Post #2", was a small
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military outpost that existed from 1839 to 1850. Located roughly 16 miles west of present-day
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and 20 miles northeast of
Fort DrumFort Drum is a near-ghost town in Okeechobee County, Florida, United States. It is located on US 441, between Yeehaw Junction and Okeechobee. A service plaza on Florida's Turnpike is named after the town. Not many people are aware of its location...
. Archaeologists posit the fort's exact location to be just south of the intersection of
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and 66nd avenue.
The fort existed mostly to help quell the periodic problems with the
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Amerindians and was abandoned for good in 1850 after the final battle with that tribe.
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Once upon a time there was a pair of pants. They were an essential kind of pants - jeans, naturally, blue but not that stiff, new blue you see so often on the first day of school.
We started being "we" before we were born.
I'm sorry you asked me out, she told him silently. Otherwise maybe I could have liked you.
You would hate this place. Wholesome, all-American people doing sports all day. High fives are common. I even witnessed a group hug. Sports cliches all day long.
I hope these Pants bring you... Courage? No, you have too much of that. Energy? No, you have way too much of that. Not love. You get and give loads as it is. Okay, how 'bout this? I hope they bring you good sense.
And someplace under that, she was sad that people like Bee and Kostos, who had lost everything, were still open to love, and she, who'd lost nothing, was not.
She would just stay here holding Bailey's hand for all time, so Bailey wouldn't be afraid there wasn't enough of it.
Bridget looked down at the Pants, grateful to have them. They meant support and they meant love, just as they'd all vowed at the beginning of the summer. But with Lena right her, right next to her, she almost didn't need them.
Still, the Pants promised us there was time. Nothing would be lost. There was all year if we needed it. We had all the way until next summer, when we would take out the Traveling Pants and, together or apart, begin again.
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Fort Vinton, also known as "Post #2", was a small
FloridaFlorida is a state located in the southeastern region of the United States, bordering Alabama to the northwest and Georgia to the north. It was the 27th state admitted to the United States...
military outpost that existed from 1839 to 1850. Located roughly 16 miles west of present-day
Vero BeachVero Beach is a city in Indian River County, Florida, USA. According to the U.S. Census Bureau's 2006 estimates, the city had a population of 16,939. It is the county seat of Indian River County...
and 20 miles northeast of
Fort DrumFort Drum is a near-ghost town in Okeechobee County, Florida, United States. It is located on US 441, between Yeehaw Junction and Okeechobee. A service plaza on Florida's Turnpike is named after the town. Not many people are aware of its location...
. Archaeologists posit the fort's exact location to be just south of the intersection of
State Road 60State Road 60 is an east-west route transversing Florida from the Gulf of Mexico to the Atlantic Ocean. The western terminus of SR 60 is at the Sunsets at Pier 60 in Clearwater...
and 66nd avenue.
The fort existed mostly to help quell the periodic problems with the
SeminoleThe Seminole are a Native American people originally of Florida, who now reside primarily in that state and Oklahoma. The Seminole nation was formed in the 18th century in a process of ethnogenesis...
Amerindians and was abandoned for good in 1850 after the final battle with that tribe. For most of its existence it was simply known as "Post #2" but was renamed in honor of Major John Rogers Vinton (1801–1847) just before it was closed.
In the 1800s, the fort's location would have been on the edge of a steaming
mosquitoMosquito is a common insect in the family Culicidae...
-infested cypress swamp, days away from any trace of civilization. Today the area is planted in oranges and grapefruit, though it's still steaming and mosquito-infested.
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