Tocoi is a former settlement along the

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represented it in the Florida House of Representative in 1879. Tocoi was the site of a ferry landing and a local rail line to

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. The name is said to come from a Native American word for water lily. The Tocoi Creek in the area is a tributary of the St. Johns. A commercial

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factory was in the area.

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's 1879 book ''Sealed Orders'' features Tocoi and its train station as a setting.Sealed Orders - Page 253

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