Mannfield is an
extinct town
A ghost town, deserted city, extinct town, or abandoned city is an abandoned settlement, usually one that contains substantial visible remaining buildings and infrastructure such as roads. A town often becomes a ghost town because the economi ...
near
Lecanto, Florida
Lecanto is an unincorporated community and census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. ...
in the
Withlacoochee State Forest
The Withlacoochee State Forest is in the western central part in the US state of Florida, near Lecanto, Inverness, Floral City, Brooksville, Ridge Manor, and Dade City. The forest was named for the Withlacoochee River, which passes thro ...
in
Citrus County, Florida
Citrus County is a County (United States), county located on the northwest central coast of the State (United States of America), U.S. state of Florida. As of the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, the population was 153,843. Its county s ...
.
It was named after State Senator
Austin S. Mann. It was the county seat from 1887 to 1891. During that period the ''Citrus County Star'' newspaper was published in Mannfield. Mannfield is now a ghost town in the Withlacoochee State Forest and has no permanent residents anymore due to the town's extinction.
[https://cccourthouse.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Ghost-towns-and-Cemeteries-of-Citrus-County.pdf ]
See also
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List of ghost towns in Florida
This is an incomplete list of ghost towns in Florida sortable by name, county, or coordinates. The county names are modern (as of 2018); in several cases, the ghost town, when inhabited, was in a different county than the modern one.
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Great Freeze
The Great Freeze was a period of back-to-back freezes during the winter of 1894–95 in the Southern United States, particularly notable for destroying much of the citrus crop in Northern Florida.
Entire communities, such as Earnestville, fa ...
References
External links
Mannfield - Ghost TownCitrus County Maps
Ghost towns in Florida
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