Yankeetown and Inglis, Florida

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Overheard at the 2007 Seafood Festival:
"You ain't nobody in Yankeetown if you ain't gettin' sued."

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"When all the facts are considered, it looks as if a great change is upon us. A few decades from now when someone sits down to write about the Yankeetown of the 1970's and 1980's it will be difficult for him to understand our present way of life. Do you suppose he will consider our times the good old days?"

  -- Knotts, Tom. See Yankeetown. Yankeetown: The Withlacoochee Press, 1970.

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"That's right you will be the reason your small town turns into a playground for people who don't even live here. When big money moves into a small town it doesn't take much to bankrupt the small town and build whatever they want and you will not be able to stop this from happening, it will cost too much to fight them and you will lose in the end. "

  -- Ed Oesterle. From the November 16 (2005) edition of The Newscaster.

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   Dix Stephens released his latest book Withlacoochee Notes, a history of the area along this important river from the Gulf of Mexico, through Levy County and into west Marion County consisting of 206 pages and 87 old photographs.

   Withlacoochee Notes takes the reader from the early inhabitants, the Timucuan Indians before the appearance of Europeans through the three Seminole Indian Wars, Civil War, discovery of phosphate, the important logging and turpentine industries, discusses the numerous towns that sprang up then soon disappear. Also covered are several important early pioneers including John Chambers, early land speculator and lumberman, Albertus Vogt, discover of hard-rock phosphate near Dunnellon, Dr. Andrew Hodges, earliest important settler of the area that would become Inglis/Yankeetown and John Inglis, prominent phosphate tycoon. Stephens’ publication includes information never before published about these important places and people, but also corrects previously written stories that are proved inaccurate through his extensive research.

   For more information or to order a copy, visit http://www.lulu.com/content/202788.

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