Floral City, FL

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The city was laid out and surveyed in 1883 by the surveyor W.H. Havron and then-Senator Austin S. Mann. source: Wikipedia

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, 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, Florida area east of Tampa.

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Bordered on the east by the Withlacoochee River and in the middle of the Withlacoochee State Forest, Floral City is 7 miles south of Inverness, Florida on US 41 and CR 48(formerly SR 48) and 13 miles north of Brooksville, Florida. This city is said to be a slice of "Old Florida" that remains relatively intact. The town was named Floral City for its abundance of wild flowers, which are still plentiful today. Floral City also marks the beginning of the Tsala Apopka chain of lakes, which run north into the Gulf of Mexico for the next 50 miles along the Withlacoochee River.

12/22/2012

NEIGHBORHOODS: Beverly Hills | Citrus Springs | Crystal River | Dunnellon | Floral City | Hernando | Holder | Homosassa | Inverness | Lecanto

12/21/2012

NEIGHBORHOODS: Beverly Hills | Citrus Springs | Crystal River | Dunnellon | Floral City | Hernando | Holder | Homosassa | Inverness | Lecanto

11/01/2012

NEIGHBORHOODS: Beverly Hills|Citrus Springs|Crystal River|Dunnellon|Floral City|Hernando|Holder|Homossassa|Inverness|Lecanto

08/27/2012

NEIGHBORHOODS: Beverly Hills | Citrus Springs | Crystal River | Dunnellon | Floral City | Hernando | Holder | Homossassa | Inverness | Lecanto

08/07/2012

Suncoast Parkway: Do you think government cares about your opinion?

07/31/2012

A fire completely destroyed a stilt home on Monday in Floral City

CitrusDaily.com Video: After counting its pennies for the upcoming 2012-13 budget, Citrus County commissioners wondered ...
07/26/2012

CitrusDaily.com Video: After counting its pennies for the upcoming 2012-13 budget, Citrus County commissioners wondered what might happen if Duke Energy's tax money went away.

After counting its pennies for the upcoming 2012-13 budget, Citrus County commissioners wondered what might happen if Duke Energy's tax money went away, perh...

07/26/2012

The campaign trail wandered into the Citrus County Commission's preliminary budget hearing in Inverness.

07/26/2012

Standard & Poor's announced on Wednesday that it will be lowering Duke Energy's corporate credit rating

07/25/2012

The Board of County Commissioners today passed the motion to set the tentative millage rates for Fiscal Year 2012-13 by a 3-2 vote

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