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The population was 14,283 as of 2020, up from 13,791 at the 2010 census. Homosassa Springs is the principal community of the Homosassa Springs, Florida, Metropolitan Statistical Area. [4] The name derives from the warm spring located in Homosassa Springs Wildlife State Park that attracts manatees to the area.
At the Homosassa Elementary School, the route shifts to West Yulee Drive and runs east, as it is intended to. Along this segment the route runs through "downtown" Homosassa. Briefly curving to the north at West Central Street and then northeast, it passes through the Yulee Sugar Mill Ruins Historic State Park. The road almost continues to the ...
North of Homosassa Springs, US 19/US 98 serves as the location of a series of car dealerships, local garages, a Moose Lodge, churches, and the intersection of Ozello Trail . As the road approaches Crystal River Airport , it enters the city of Crystal River , since the airport serves as the unofficial southern border.
Citrus County is a county located on the northwest central coast of the U.S. state of Florida.As of the 2020 census, the population was 153,843. [2] Its county seat is Inverness, [3] and its largest community is Homosassa Springs.
At Homosassa, Yulee established a farm of some 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) worked by about 1,000 enslaved African Americans. They raised sugarcane, citrus, and cotton. The large mill (which was steam-driven) ran from 1851 to 1864. It produced sugar, syrup and molasses, the latter used in making rum. [3]
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Monkey Island. Monkey Island is a small island in the Homosassa River next to the Florida Cracker Riverside Resort and downtown "Old" Homosassa, Florida.The island was originally created when G. A. Furgason, a developer of the Homosassa area, hired a dragline operator to create the island from a pile of rocks submerged during high tide in order to keep boats from running aground.
Crystal River is a city in Citrus County, Florida, United States.The population was 3,396 in the 2020 census, up from 3,108 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Homosassa Springs, Florida Metropolitan Statistical Area.