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Dunedin takes its name from Dun Eideann, the Scottish Gaelic name for Edinburgh, Scotland - two Scottish merchants, J.O. Douglas and James Sumerville, had the name adopted for the settlement's post office in 1882.

The first land grant in Dunedin was given to Richard L. Garrison in 1852, when the settlement was still known as Jonesboro.

Dunedin incorporated as a town in 1899 - the first town incorporated on Florida's Gulf coast between Key West and Cedar Key - and it was reincorporated as a city in 1925.

One spur to Dunedin's incorporation was residents' frustration with pigs running rampant through the settlement, and the ban on livestock within city limits passed in response is still standing today.

The 2020 census counted 36,068 people in Dunedin, spread across about 17,398 households that average just 2.03 people each, with 71.1% of homes owner-occupied.

More than 60% of Dunedin's total area is water - the city spans 28.2 square miles, but only about 10.4 square miles of it is land.

Dunedin is the gateway to Honeymoon Island State Park and Caladesi Island State Park, and Caladesi's beach is consistently rated among the best beaches in the world.

Honeymoon Island and Caladesi Island were once a single island called Hog Island until a hurricane in 1921 cut a new inlet - now called Hurricane Pass - through it; Honeymoon Island later got its name from a late-1930s promotion that offered cottages to newlyweds.

Dunedin has been the only spring training home of the Toronto Blue Jays since the team was founded, and the Jays played their first-ever spring training game here on March 11, 1977.

The Blue Jays play at TD Ballpark, an intimate stadium seating about 8,500 fans, which also hosts the Single-A Dunedin Blue Jays during the regular season.