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Amelia Island

Florida, United States

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part of Sea Islands

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Amelia Island, settled in 1735 by James Edward Oglethorpe, the founder of Georgia colony, became part of East Florida; it became Spanish in 1783 and was ceded to the United States with the rest of Florida in 1821.
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