English Wikipedia - The Free Encycl...
Download this dictionary
Hillsborough River (Florida)
The
Hillsborough River
is a
river
located in the state of
Florida
in the
USA
. It arises in the
Green Swamp
near the juncture of
Hillsborough
,
Pasco
and
Polk
counties, and flows through Pasco and Hillsborough Counties to an outlet in the city of
Tampa
on
Tampa Bay
. The name
Hillsborough River
first appeared on a
British
map in 1769. At the time, the
Earl of Hillsborough
was the British
Secretary of State for the Colonies
, and thus controlled the
pensions
of the
surveyor
s working in the
American colonies
, which included
East Florida
.
See more at Wikipedia.org...
© This article uses material from
Wikipedia
®
and is licensed under the
GNU Free Documentation License
and under the
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License