Editing Cortez, Florida (section)

== Museums and culture ==

=== Cortez Historic District ===
The [[Cortez Historic District]] is a [[United States|U.S.]] [[Historic district (United States)|historic district]] (designated as such on March 16, 1995) bounded by [[Florida State Road 684|Cortez Road]], 119th Street W, [[Sarasota Bay]] and 124th Street Court W.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com/fl/manatee/state.html|title=National Register of Historical Places - FLORIDA (FL), Manatee County|website=nationalregisterofhistoricplaces.com|access-date=2019-08-05}} {{verify source |date=September 2019 |reason=This ref was deleted Special:Diff/909485102 by a bug in VisualEditor and later restored by a bot from the original cite located at Special:Permalink/909482099 cite #2 - verify the cite is accurate and delete this template. [[User:GreenC bot/Job 18]]}}</ref>

=== Cortez Cultural Center ===
The Cortez Cultural Center focuses on preserving "old Florida" history and stories of founding families in Cortez. The center's exhibits start with Cortez's founding and continues onto the 1980s. Eventually, the center will document the village's history to present day.<ref name=":1">{{Cite web|url=https://www.cortezvillagehistoricalsociety.org/about-us|title=About Us {{!}} Cortez Village Historical Society Cultural Center|website=cortez-villagecc|language=en|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref>

=== Florida Institute of Saltwater Heritage ===
The Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage (F.I.S.H.) is a non-profit, grassroots organization established in 1991. F.I.S.H. is in the process of restoring over 100 acres of environmentally sensitive land on [[Sarasota Bay]]. Each year F.I.S.H. and Cortez hosts a Commercial Fishing Festival during the 3rd weekend of February that is attended by thousands of people.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cortez-fish.org/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100916211448/http://www.cortez-fish.org/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=September 16, 2010|title=F.I.S.H - The Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage|website=F.I.S.H - The Florida Institute for Saltwater Heritage|language=en|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref>

=== Florida Maritime Museum ===
The [[Florida Maritime Museum]] (FMM) is a museum, sponsored by Manatee County Clerk of Circuit Courts, located on 4 acres (1.6 ha) of land within the historic fishing village of Cortez, Florida. The museum tells a number of stories pertaining to all aspects of Florida's maritime history. Exhibits include historic photographs, boat models, tools, instruments, sea shells, and other historic artifacts. The museum is also home to a folk school that teaches traditional Florida skills and a research library with a variety of books, plans, logs, diaries, periodicals, letters, records and related archival material whose content is relevant to research concerning maritime subjects, with special emphases on Florida's [[Gulf Coast of the United States|Gulf Coast]]. The museum is housed in a 1912 schoolhouse building at the 95-acre (38 ha) Cortez Nature Preserve at 4415 119th Street West. Other historic structures located on the site include the 1890 Burton Store, a wood cistern, and the Pillsbury Boat Shop.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.floridamaritimemuseum.org/|title=Florida Maritime Museum {{!}} Cortez, Florida|website=flmaritimemuseum|language=en|access-date=2019-08-05}}</ref><gallery>
File:Historical marker for fishing village of Cortez, Florida.jpg|Historical marker
File:Shrimp, snapper, grouper, and stone crab fishing boats at Cortez, Florida.jpg|Shrimp, snapper, grouper, and stone crab fishing boats at Cortez
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