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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 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.
Troupville's location near the confluence of the Withlacoochee and Little Rivers, on the stage route from Thomasville to Waresboro, and along the planned route of the Brunswick and Florida Railroad, soon proved prosperous. In 1839, town lots were being sold at $3,443. A decade later they had risen to $9,162.
The site is within territory held by the Citrus Tract of the Withlacoochee State Forest. In mid-2018, construction of an extension of the Suncoast Parkway which was to go through this site was stopped abruptly due to lawsuits filed. [3] The injunction halting construction was lifted less than a month later, allowing construction to proceed. [4]
In 1886 a project to clear the Withlacoochee River for navigation went as far as Pemberton Ferry. [6] A post office was located in the area from 1902 until 1935. [7] Croom was on the west coast route of the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad to Tampa. A station and a branch line extended to Brooksville. [8] The iron bridge was a trestle for logging ...
Along the route of central Florida's Withlacoochee River is the 46-mile-long (74 km) Withlacoochee State Trail, the longest paved rail trail in Florida; [2] the Cypress Lake Preserve, a 324-acre (1.31 km 2) park with approximately 600 feet (180 m) of frontage; [3] and Nobleton Wayside Park, a 2-acre (8,100 m 2) park in Nobleton that includes a ...
On December 31, 1835, the column of soldiers with Gen. Duncan L. Clinch, leading regular U.S. troops, and Richard K. Call, leading militia, came to the Withlacoochee River. Most of the volunteer militia men had only been signed on for three weeks, the U.S. military commanders believing that it would take only that amount of time to crush the ...
The Little River is a 105-mile-long (169 km) [1] tributary of the Withlacoochee River in the U.S. state of Georgia. Via the Withlacoochee and the Suwannee River its waters flow to the Gulf of Mexico. The Little River was also known historically as the Ockolocoochee River.