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The Withlacoochee airfield was used by the CWS Unit as a landing strip for the planes used in the field trials at Withlacoochee Bombing & Gunnery Range. Several military herbicides for defoliation and crop destruction were tested at the airfield. After World War II ended, the airstrip was abandoned and apparently has not been used ever since.
The Croom Tract is part of the Withlacoochee State Forest, and is located just north of another ghost town called Oriole. [3] There is also a 20,000 acre Croom Wildlife Management Area . [ 4 ] Ruins in the area include 1900 Thomas House, old foundations, a brick vat, the remains of an iron railroad bridge, family cemeteries and pits from ...
This district includes seventy-six contributing buildings and one contributing site that are located in the linear village of Pottstown Landing. The buildings date from the eighteenth to the twentieth centuries and primarily include residential buildings. Also included are a number of contributing outbuildings, a school, and a church.
The Withlacoochee State Forest is 157,479-acre (637 km 2) in the western central part in the US state of Florida, near Lecanto, Inverness, Floral City, Brooksville, Ridge Manor, and Dade City. The forest was named for the Withlacoochee River , which passes through some of the major tracts within.
Withlacoochee State Trail signpost commemorating the Great Train Wreck of 1956 in Pineola. The southern terminus is at U.S. 98/301 south of Trilby.The trail goes 6 miles (9.7 km) north to a crossover of U.S. 98/SR 50, a mile east of I-75 and 40 miles (64 km) north past the Silver Lake Campground in the Withlacoochee State Forest, close to the Withlacoochee River.
Water levels of the Withlacoochee River continue to rise in the aftermath of Hurricane Milton.
Silver Lake is a long and narrow natural freshwater lake on the border between Hernando County, Florida, and Sumter County, Florida.This lake is surrounded by the Withlacoochee State Forest.
Okapilco Creek is a 63-mile-long (101 km) [1] tributary of the Withlacoochee River in the U.S. state of Georgia.Via the Withlacoochee and the Suwannee River, the waters of Okapilco Creek flow to the Gulf of Mexico.