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Local Information for TARPON SPRINGS, FL

Latitude: 28.148658 -- Longitude: -82.758098

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ZIP Codes for Tarpon Springs, Florida	34688  34689  34690  34691
Area Code for Tarpon Springs, Florida	727
Time zone for Tarpon Springs, Florida	EST

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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