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Floral City, FloridaPast
Sometime during the 1940s era. @ intersection of U.S. 41 and 48 aka Orange and S. Florida Aves.
The Popular Moonrise Resort - Floral City
Moonrise Resort - Floral City, Inverness area of FloridaPast
A bit of borrowed history about Floral City;
"Floral City was laid out and surveyed in 1883 by the surveyor W.H. Havron and then-Senator Austin S. Mann. The land was owned by James Baker, son-in-law of ex-Confederate soldier John Paul Formy-Duval, an early area settler and landowner. The village was at one time larger than Miami,[citation needed] due to the phosphate mining industry located in Citrus County. Around the time of World War I, the mining industry shut down in Floral City. After the war, mining was moved south to the Bartow area east of Tampa.[citation needed]
The community is said to be a slice of "Old Florida" that remains relatively intact.[citation needed] The town was named Floral City for its abundance of wild flowers, which are still plentiful today."
[credit; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_City,_Florida]
"Floral City was laid out and surveyed in 1883 by the surveyor W.H. Havron and then-Senator Austin S. Mann. The land was owned by James Baker, son-in-law of ex-Confederate soldier John Paul Formy-Duval, an early area settler and landowner. The village was at one time larger than Miami,[citation needed] due to the phosphate mining industry located in Citrus County. Around the time of World War I, the mining industry shut down in Floral City. After the war, mining was moved south to the Bartow area east of Tampa.[citation needed]
The community is said to be a slice of "Old Florida" that remains relatively intact.[citation needed] The town was named Floral City for its abundance of wild flowers, which are still plentiful today."
[credit; http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floral_City,_Florida]
Visit some of these other informative links about Floral City;
http://www.floralcityhc.org/ <- The Floral City Heritage Council is a branch of the Citrus County Historical Society
http://www.floralcityfla.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=48&Itemid=60 <- Floral City Official Page with Great Old Fotos
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INVERNESS NOW & THEN FADES and HISTORICAL IMAGES
Roadside Billboard Welcoming You to Inverness
Some borrowed history about Inverness, Citrus County, FloridaPast;
"Inverness, Florida was established in 1889. Its original name was Tompkinsville. According to the late historian Mary McRae of Homosassa, Inverness got its name from a lonely Scotsman, far away from his home, who gazed upon the blue waters of the Native American-named Lake Tsala Apopka and thought, “but it looks like Inverness, between the headlands and the lochs’(115) in Scotland. And the beautiful place deserves the name of Inverness.” Inver is a Gaelic word meaning “mouth of the river”, and through the city flows the River Ness, originating from Loch Ness. Since the city lies at the foot of one of the chain of lakes in the Citrus County, Inverness seemed an appropriate name.
The Withlacoochee State Trail, which replaced a former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad line, runs between two of those lakes, in one case over a small bridge over part of Henderson Lake."
[credit -> https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Inverness,_Florida.html]
"Inverness, Florida was established in 1889. Its original name was Tompkinsville. According to the late historian Mary McRae of Homosassa, Inverness got its name from a lonely Scotsman, far away from his home, who gazed upon the blue waters of the Native American-named Lake Tsala Apopka and thought, “but it looks like Inverness, between the headlands and the lochs’(115) in Scotland. And the beautiful place deserves the name of Inverness.” Inver is a Gaelic word meaning “mouth of the river”, and through the city flows the River Ness, originating from Loch Ness. Since the city lies at the foot of one of the chain of lakes in the Citrus County, Inverness seemed an appropriate name.
The Withlacoochee State Trail, which replaced a former Atlantic Coast Line Railroad line, runs between two of those lakes, in one case over a small bridge over part of Henderson Lake."
[credit -> https://www.princeton.edu/~achaney/tmve/wiki100k/docs/Inverness,_Florida.html]
Other Inverness links to visit;
http://www.inverness-fl.gov/272/Rosemary <- City of Inverness
http://www.cccourthouse.org/ <- Citrus County Historical Society
http://www.sandersonbay.com/citruscounty/history.html <- sanderson bay
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The Citrus County Courthouse - Inverness
The Wishing Stone Cafe Liquor Store and Service Station
Highway 41 - 4 miles south of Inverness
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