Editing North Port, Florida (section)

==History==

Archaeological digs at the [[Little Salt Spring]] show that what is now North Port was inhabited by pre-Columbian Native Americans. Evidence of their existence includes projectile points, a carved oak mortar, and a piece of a nonreturnable wooden [[boomerang]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Milanich |first1=Jerald T. |title=Archaeology of Precolumbian Florida |date=1994 |publisher=University Press of Florida |location=Gainesville |isbn=9780813012728 |page=53}}</ref>

In 1954, the [[Mackle Brothers]] started the [[General Development Corporation]] with the intention of selling property in Florida to northerners. Not only would they plat and sell a majority of what is now North Port, the company's employees served on the city's first council.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Grove |first1=Marshall W. |title=North Port : the first 50 years |date=2009 |publisher=City of North Port |location=North Port, Fla. |isbn=978-0976759461 |pages=17–19}}</ref> The city itself was incorporated in 1959.<ref name="NPC"/><ref>{{cite news |last1=Staff Report |title=Archaeology, sprint training, but no port: Five things to know about North Port |url=https://www.heraldtribune.com/story/news/local/venice/2021/09/17/five-things-know-north-port-florida-sarasota-county/8378171002/ |access-date=16 May 2022 |agency=Sarasota Herald Tribune |date=17 September 2021}}</ref>

On September 28, 2022, [[Hurricane Ian]] made direct landfall in Florida just south of Sarasota County. North Port, in particular, experienced excessive flooding and the Holiday Park mobile home community was almost completely destroyed.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Licon |first1=Adriana |last2=Anderson |first2=Curt |date=October 1, 2022 |title=After Ian, river flooding menaces Florida inland towns |work=Associated Press |url=https://apnews.com/article/hurricanes-floods-suburbs-sarasota-climate-and-environment-131a7ee26b24bcd611b96ada2b9d2a63 |access-date=October 2, 2022}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |title=Draft Public Action Plan |url=https://www.scgov.net/home/showpublisheddocument/62068/638259589150570000 |website=www.scgov.net |publisher=Sarasota County |access-date=28 July 2023}}</ref>