Sebring

Sebring

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Publication Date: 9th January 2008

In 1911, Ohio entrepreneur George E. Sebring was drawn to the raw south-central Florida peninsular wilderness, known for bountiful fishing and game. After cofounding Sebring, Ohio, in 1898, he envisaged another eponymous town that would attract new residents to this largely unsettled area located 30 miles from the nearest railroad depot. The businessman purchased 9,000 acres on the shore of Lake Jackson, and his new town was designed and surveyed between October 1911 and April 1912. By virtue of its location along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, the community of Sebring emerged as a novel to... Read More
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In 1911, Ohio entrepreneur George E. Sebring was drawn to the raw south-central Florida peninsular wilderness, known for bountiful fishing and game. After cofounding Sebring, Ohio, in 1898, he envisaged another eponymous town that would attract new residents to this largely unsettled area located 30 miles from the nearest railroad depot. The businessman purchased 9,000 acres on the shore of Lake Jackson, and his new town was designed and surveyed between October 1911 and April 1912. By virtue of its location along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, the community of Sebring emerged as a novel to... Read More
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In 1911, Ohio entrepreneur George E. Sebring was drawn to the raw south-central Florida peninsular wilderness, known for bountiful fishing and game. After cofounding Sebring, Ohio, in 1898, he envisaged another eponymous town that would attract new residents to this largely unsettled area located 30 miles from the nearest railroad depot. The businessman purchased 9,000 acres on the shore of Lake Jackson, and his new town was designed and surveyed between October 1911 and April 1912. By virtue of its location along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, the community of Sebring emerged as a novel tourist and golfing destination and was established as the seat of newly formed Highlands County in 1921. Cultural and technological advances have transformed the once-rural community into a thriving modern city that today retains its small-town atmosphere as the City on the Circle.
Details
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Images of America
  • Publication Date: 9th January 2008
  • State: Florida
  • Illustration Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9780738553016
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
Author Bio
Randall M. MacDonald is the director of Roux Library at Florida Southern College. He has been at the college since 1986, following experience in public librarianship and records management. His undergraduate degree was in history, and his graduate work was in library science and education. His previous books include The Internet and the School Library Media Specialist: Transforming Traditional Services (1997) and Successful Keyword Searching: Initiating Research on Popular Topics Using Electronic Databases (2001, with Susan Priest MacDonald). He has coauthored four previous local history titles: Lakeland (2005, with Mary M. Flekke), Cypress Gardens (2006, with Mary M. Flekke and Sarah E. MacDonald), The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright at Florida Southern College (2007, with Nora Galbraith and James G. Rogers Jr.) and Sebring (2008, with Susan Priest MacDonald and the Sebring Historical Society).
In 1911, Ohio entrepreneur George E. Sebring was drawn to the raw south-central Florida peninsular wilderness, known for bountiful fishing and game. After cofounding Sebring, Ohio, in 1898, he envisaged another eponymous town that would attract new residents to this largely unsettled area located 30 miles from the nearest railroad depot. The businessman purchased 9,000 acres on the shore of Lake Jackson, and his new town was designed and surveyed between October 1911 and April 1912. By virtue of its location along the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad, the community of Sebring emerged as a novel tourist and golfing destination and was established as the seat of newly formed Highlands County in 1921. Cultural and technological advances have transformed the once-rural community into a thriving modern city that today retains its small-town atmosphere as the City on the Circle.
  • Pages: 128
  • Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
  • Imprint: Arcadia Publishing
  • Series: Images of America
  • Publication Date: 9th January 2008
  • State: Florida
  • Illustrations Note: Black and White
  • ISBN: 9780738553016
  • Format: Paperback
  • BISACs:
    HISTORY / United States / State & Local / South (AL, AR, FL, GA, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, TN, VA, WV)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional (see also TRAVEL / Pictorials)
    TRAVEL / Pictorials (see also PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
    PHOTOGRAPHY / Subjects & Themes / Historical
Randall M. MacDonald is the director of Roux Library at Florida Southern College. He has been at the college since 1986, following experience in public librarianship and records management. His undergraduate degree was in history, and his graduate work was in library science and education. His previous books include The Internet and the School Library Media Specialist: Transforming Traditional Services (1997) and Successful Keyword Searching: Initiating Research on Popular Topics Using Electronic Databases (2001, with Susan Priest MacDonald). He has coauthored four previous local history titles: Lakeland (2005, with Mary M. Flekke), Cypress Gardens (2006, with Mary M. Flekke and Sarah E. MacDonald), The Buildings of Frank Lloyd Wright at Florida Southern College (2007, with Nora Galbraith and James G. Rogers Jr.) and Sebring (2008, with Susan Priest MacDonald and the Sebring Historical Society).