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Sweetwater| City in southeastern Florida, on the Tamiami Trail, 16 km/10 mi west of Miami, of which it is a residential suburb; population (1990) 13,900. |
Sweetwater| City and administrative headquarters of Nolan County, west-central Texas, 60 km/37 mi west of Abilene; population (1990) 12,000. Oil (discovered in the 1920s), sand, gypsum, and clay deposits have been exploited. The city ships grain, feed, wool, mohair, and livestock, and has various light industries. |
| Settled in 1877 around a dugout trading post, it moved to the present site when the Texas & Pacific Railroad arrived in 1881. Despite blizzard and drought in the 1880s, it survived as a trading centre for wool, cattle, and cotton producers. |
| Sweetwater is noted as the World War II home (at Avenger Field) of the Women's Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) programme, in which women pilots ferried bombers and flew other noncombat missions. |
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