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Fort Kissimmee Cemetery, the Glossary

Fort Kissimmee Cemetery is one of the oldest Florida Heartland pioneer cemeteries located on private property within the eastern boundary of the Avon Park Bombing Range in Highlands County, Florida along the Kissimmee River.^[1]

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Cemeteries in Florida
Forts in Florida

Avon Park, Florida

Avon Park is a city in Highlands County, Florida, United States.

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Barbecue

Barbecue or barbeque (often shortened to BBQ worldwide; barbie or barby in Australia and New Zealand) is a term used with significant regional and national variations to describe various cooking methods that employ live fire and smoke to cook the food.

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Beef

Beef is the culinary name for meat from cattle (Bos taurus).

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Bombing range

A bombing range usually refers to a remote military aerial bombing and gunnery training range used by combat aircraft to attack ground targets (air-to-ground bombing), or a remote area reserved for researching, developing, testing and evaluating new weapons and ammunition.

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Florida

Florida is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Florida Heartland

The Florida Heartland (also known as South Central Florida) is a region of Florida located to the north and west of Lake Okeechobee, composed of six inland, non-metropolitan counties—DeSoto, Glades, Hardee, Hendry, Highlands, and Okeechobee.

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Florida scrub

Florida scrub is a forest ecoregion found throughout Florida in the United States.

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Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia, officially the State of Georgia, is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Heart of palm

Heart of palm is a vegetable harvested from the inner core and growing bud of certain palm trees, most notably the coconut (Cocos nucifera), juçara (Euterpe edulis), açaí palm (Euterpe oleracea), palmetto (Sabal spp.), and peach palm.

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Highlands County, Florida

Highlands County is a county located in the Florida Heartland region of the U.S. state of Florida.

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Kissimmee River

The Kissimmee River is a river in south-central Florida, United States that forms the north part of the Everglades wetlands area.

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List of forts in Florida

There are several historical forts in the U.S. state of Florida. Fort Kissimmee Cemetery and List of forts in Florida are forts in Florida.

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Live oak

Live oak or evergreen oak is any of a number of oaks in several different sections of the genus Quercus that share the characteristic of evergreen foliage.

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Longleaf pine

The longleaf pine (Pinus palustris) is a pine species native to the Southeastern United States, found along the coastal plain from East Texas to southern Virginia, extending into northern and central Florida.

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Lorida, Florida

Lorida is an unincorporated community in eastern Highlands County, Florida, United States.

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Manatee

Manatees (family Trichechidae, genus Trichechus) are large, fully aquatic, mostly herbivorous marine mammals sometimes known as sea cows.

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Marsh

In ecology, a marsh is a wetland that is dominated by herbaceous plants rather than by woody plants.

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Memorial Day

Memorial Day (originally known as Decoration Day) is one of the federal holidays in the United States for honoring and mourning the U.S. military personnel who died while serving in the United States Armed Forces.

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Muscogee

The Muscogee, also known as the Mvskoke, Muscogee Creek or just Creek, and the Muscogee Creek Confederacy (in the Muscogee language; English), are a group of related Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands Sequoyah Research Center and the American Native Press Archives in the United States.

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Okeechobee County, Florida

Okeechobee County is a county located in the Florida Heartland region of the state of Florida.

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One-room school

One-room schools, or schoolhouses, were commonplace throughout rural portions of various countries, including Prussia, Norway, Sweden, the United States, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Portugal, and Spain.

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Prairie

Prairies are ecosystems considered part of the temperate grasslands, savannas, and shrublands biome by ecologists, based on similar temperate climates, moderate rainfall, and a composition of grasses, herbs, and shrubs, rather than trees, as the dominant vegetation type.

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Sabal etonia

Sabal etonia, commonly known as the scrub palmetto is a species of palm.

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Sebring, Florida

Sebring is a city in south-central Florida, United States, nicknamed "The City on the Circle", in reference to Circle Drive, the center of the Sebring Downtown Historic District.

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Seminole Wars

The Seminole Wars (also known as the Florida Wars) were a series of three military conflicts between the United States and the Seminoles that took place in Florida between about 1816 and 1858.

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Shotgun

A shotgun (also known as a scattergun, peppergun, or historically as a fowling piece) is a long-barreled firearm designed to shoot a straight-walled cartridge known as a shotshell, which discharges numerous small spherical projectiles called shot, or a single solid projectile called a slug.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fort_Kissimmee_Cemetery