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Latitude: 28.148658 -- Longitude: -82.758098

The region, with a series of bayous feeding into the Gulf of Mexico, first attracted attention as a place for winter homes about 1876. Some of the newly arrived visitors spotted fish jumping out of the waters and so named the location Tarpon Springs. The first Greek immigrants arrived to this city during the 1880s, when they were hired to work as divers in the growing sponge harvesting industry. In 1905, John Cocoris introduced the technique of sponge diving to Tarpon Springs. Cocoris recruited Greek sponge divers from the Dodecanese Islands and by the 1930s, the sponge industry of Tarpon Springs was very productive, generating millions of dollars a year. When a red tide algae bloom occurred in 1947, wiping out the sponge fields in that region of the Gulf of Mexico, most of the sponge boats and divers switched to fishing and shrimping for a livelihood. -- Source: Wikipedia.com

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The region, with a series of bayous feeding into the Gulf of Mexico, first attracted attention as a place for winter homes about 1876. Some of the newly arrived visitors spotted fish jumping out of the waters and so named the location Tarpon Springs. The first Greek immigrants arrived to this city during the 1880s, when they were hired to work as divers in the growing sponge harvesting industry. In 1905, John Cocoris introduced the technique of sponge diving to Tarpon Springs. Cocoris recruited Greek sponge divers from the Dodecanese Islands and by the 1930s, the sponge industry of Tarpon Springs was very productive, generating millions of dollars a year. When a red tide algae bloom occurred in 1947, wiping out the sponge fields in that region of the Gulf of Mexico, most of the sponge boats and divers switched to fishing and shrimping for a livelihood. -- Source: Wikipedia.com

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Census Data for Tarpon Springs, Florida

Florida 2000 Census Population Profile Map

	Tarpon Springs	Florida	United States
Population	21,003	15,982,378	281,421,906
Median age	45.4	38.7	35.3
Median age for Male	44.2	37.3	34
Median age for Female	46.7	40.1	36.5
Households	9,067	6,337,929	105,480,101
Household population	20,589	15,593,433	273,643,273
Average household size	2.27	2.46	2.59
Families	5,946	4,210,760	71,787,347
Average family size	2.78	2.98	3.14
Housing units	10,759	7,302,947	115,904,641
Occupied units	9,067	6,337,929	105,480,101
Vacant units	1,692	965,018	10,424,540

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