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Lake City

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Lake City

City and administrative headquarters of Columbia County, northern Florida, 68 km/41 mi northwest of Gainesville; population (1990) 10,000. It trades in local tobacco, lumber, poultry, and turpentine. Situated on the southwestern edge of Osceola National Forest, it is also a tourist destination.

It was founded as an 1830s military post on a former Seminole site, and was called Alligator until 1859. It was an important 19th-century farm trading centre.



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In three years he was better off than his neighbours, in six he was well-to-do, in nine he was rich, and in twelve there were not half a dozen men in the whole of Salt Lake City who could compare with him.
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"Our cattle were all played out," Saxon was saying, "and winter was so near that we couldn't dare try to cross the Great American Desert, so our train stopped in Salt Lake City that winter.
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It began at Salt Lake City with a hundred telephones, in 1880.
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