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 Vero
Beach was incorporated in 1919 and is the county
seat of Indian River County. The county was established
in 1925, the area having been formerly a part
of St. Lucie County. The first settlement dates
back to the early 1880s.
Indian
River County incorporates 497 square miles with
12 square miles within the city limits of Vero
Beach. There are 23 miles of white sandy beach
on the Atlantic Ocean. Agriculture represents
approximately 327,000 acres in the county with
the largest percentage in pastures and ranches,
followed by citrus acreage, row crops, forest
acres and woodlands.
The
charming seaside community of Vero Beach is geographically
divided by the scenic Indian River with the land
east of the river referred to as the beachside,
and the land west of the river, the mainland.
 The
beachside offers quaint restaurants, specialty
shops and boutiques, the nationally recognized
Vero Beach Museum of Art and Riverside Theater,
banking, professional services, doctors' offices,
churches and gourmet beach markets without traveling
over either of the two bridges to the mainland.
The Indian River Memorial Hospital is located
just over the bridge off Indian River Boulevard.
The
population of Vero Beach is approximately 17,000
during off season. Aside from the finest citrus
in the world, Vero Beach is the spring training
camp for the famous Los Angeles Dodgers. |
