| Floral City Floral City was the largest town in Florida at one time. Floral City Heritage Council...Includes historic pictures, history, etc. All the rich information you need to discover Floral City. Historical Photographs |
| Inverness Inverness was established in 1889 and incorporated in 1919. City of Inverness |
| Crystal River Crystal River is considered the heart of the "Nature Coast of Florida." It was incorporated 1903. Citrus Counties well known manatee population calls Kings Bay home and where Crystal River is laid out. Us 19 runs south to north through the city. City Of Crystal River |
| Beverly Hills |
| Lecanto Lecanto is located on 44 south-east of Crystal River. In 1900 there was a population of two hundred and eighty-nine inhabitants. It was mostly a farming town and of the population only seventeen were black. Some of the persons that called Lecanto home were the James Davis, William Hart, John King and William E. McGahagins families. Sarah McGahagins was a dressmaker and Emma Harris was a teacher. Mr. Pearson and his family was one of the few blacks that were residing in Lecant in 1900. |
| Holder An incorporated community located around the intersection of US 41 and Co. Rd. 491 which is the North Lecanto Hwy. West of the intersection is the crossing for the Withlacoochee State Trail. |
| Homosassa |
| Hernando |
| Etna...Turpentine
Camp St. Petersburg Times Story |
| Meadowcrest Meadowcrest Community |
| Red Level Located on the west side of US Hwy 19 about seven miles north of Crystal River. Red Level Cemetery holds the grave of civil war veteran...John Ulric Martin who lived at Citronel. The Nature Coast Civil War Reenactment is held at Red Level at the Holcim Mine property. |
| Ozello An unincorporated community in Citrus County on the west coast. On the 1900 census there were forty-nine inhabitants of which four were black. Among the population was Benjamin F. Early a merchant from Pennsylvania, a widower, the Bryant Moody family (merchant) and Bevious V. Burt listed as a tie contractor. Edward Wheeler, James Jones and Joseph Brown were three of the twelve farmers living in Ozello along with four fishermen rounding out the population which included Dupree Wheeler and Joseph Wadington. |
| Fairmount Fairmount is a ghost town in Citrus County located under the present site of the Meadowcrest Industrial Park. It was settled in 1885 and had seventy-five inhabitants in 1886. By 1900 the population had risen to two hundred and included Joseph D. Bennett the local physician. His wife and sister were both teachers, while his sister-in-law was the postmistress. Of the two hundred persons living in Fairmount, eighty-three were white. There was a turpentine mill in which housed thirty-one of the black population, while the rest worked there as day laborers. William Knight was the manager and John White, a distiller. Among the farmers were the families of Charles A. Miller and William James Henrick. |
| Stage Pond Stage Pond is located on State Road 480 aka Stage Coach Trail, in South Citrus County. Population in 1885 was about two hundred-fifty. There was a post office, general store, turpentine still, convict camp, cemetery and a school of which, only the cemetery remains. Stage Pond was a small thriving community as late as 1920 with a tavern, general store, two churches and an Inn. It was on the main coachline from Jacksonville to Hommosassa run and was a stagecoach way station. Other then the tavern. general store and Inn, there was not much industry in the area and was deserted by 1920 with the cessationof the stagecoach and the advent of the automobile. The area was settled by Sparkmans, Saddlers, Leggettes, Casons, Rooks, among others. It can be accessed by taking State Road 480 from US 41 south of Inverness, Florida and preceeding west aproximately ten miles. |
| Cutlers or Cutlers Spurr...Ghost Town |
| Felicia...Ghost Town |
| Gulf Juntion...Ghost Town |
| Harrison...Ghost Town |
| Orleans...Ghost Town |
| Seacoll...Ghost Town |
| Stagepond...Ghost Town |
| Calphos...Ghost Town |
| Catawaba...Ghost Town |
| Arlington...Ghost Town |
| Landrum...Ghost Town |