Yankeetown Florida

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Overheard at the 2008 Seafood Festival: " Well, that was back before I got 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.

The Visions of Yankeetown web site started in 1998 with a message board and photo album (cutting edge for the time!). These features have moved to Save Yankeetown, but the archives can be seen here.

Visions of Yankeetown Storyboard Archives: 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001-2004, 2004-2006. Current Yankeetown discussions may be heard at Save Yankeetown.

Visions of Yankeetown Photo Gallery Archives: 1998-2008. Current Yankeetown area photographs may be seen at Save Yankeetown.

   Betty Berger's new book is available now!

   Back Roads, by Betty Berger, is a wonderful collection of the lore of our land. She has spent years collecting the stories of our South Levy home from the oldtimers who made it what it is today. This book is essential for any local history book collection!

   For more information or to order a copy, please send an email to Ms. Berger at bberger@bellsouth.net.

Wondering how to find Yankeetown?

For lovers of small towns and quiet, back-country Florida ways: Bring your fishin' pole.

For big-time developers of high-rises and vast paved parking lots: Orlando might need a little more concrete.

   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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