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Encyclopedia Britannica



LAKE CITY

This article appears in Volume V16, Page 90 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: KRO-LAP
LAKE CITY , a town and the county-seat of
Columbia
  county, Florida, U.S.A., 59 M. by rail W. by S. of Jacksonville. Pop. (1900) 4013, of whom 2159 were negroes; (1905) 6509; (1910) 5032. Lake City is served by the
Atlantic
 
Coast
  Line, the Seaboard Air Line and the Georgia Southern & Florida railways. There are ten small lakes in the neighbourhood, and the town is a winter and
health
  resort. It is the seat of
Columbia
  College (Baptist, 1907); the Florida Agricultural College was opened here in 1883, became the university of Florida in 1903, and in 1905 was abolished by the Buckman Law. Vegetables and fruits grown for the northern markets, sea-
island
 
cotton
  and tobacco are important products of the surrounding country, and Lake City has some
trade
  in
cotton
 , lumber, phosphates and
turpentine
 . The town was first settled about 1826 as Alligator; it was incorporated in 1854; adopted the present name in 1859; and in r9o1, with an enlarged area, was re-incorporated.


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