Bugg Spring is a second magnitude spring near
Okahumpka
Okahumpka is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Lake County, Florida, United States. The population was 267 at the 2010 census. It is part of the Orlando–Kissimmee Metropolitan Statistical Area.
It is the loc ...
in
Lake County,
Florida.
The spring has a 400 feet wide pool with little vegetation which goes down to 170 to 175 feet. Its outflow runs north as Bugg Spring Run into the Helena Run from Lake Denham and into
Lake Harris.
The surrounding land was once home to a Native Seminole village prior to the
Civil War. After the war, the surrounding land was the home of Confederate States Army Colonel
J. J. Dickison
John Jackson Dickison, known as J. J. Dickison (March 27, 1816 – August 20, 1902), was an officer in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. Dickison is mostly remembered as being the person who led the attack which resulted i ...
. The 69-acre property was then purchased by the Branham's in 1923 who began leasing a portion of it to the
Navy in 1956. On December 30, 2011 the entire property was sold to the Navy.
The spring is on the property of a facility of the Underwater Sound Reference Division of the
Naval Undersea Warfare Center and is not accessible. It is mostly surrounded by swampland with sandhills to the south.
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Springs of Florida
Bodies of water of Lake County, Florida