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Lake City
1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
or A town and the county-seat of Columbia county, Florida, U.S.A., J9 m. by rail W. by S. of Jacksonville. Pop. (1900) 4013, of whom 2159 were negroes; (1905, state census) 6509. 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 1901, with an enlarged area, was re-incorporated.
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Chisholm, Hugh, General Editor. Entry for 'Lake City'. 1911 Encyclopedia Britanica. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/bri/l/lake-city.html. 1910.
