LAKE

See also:

• CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

CITY  , a town and the county-seat of Columbia county, Florida, U.S.A., 59 M. by rail W. by S. of Jacksonville . Pop . (1900) 4013, of whom 2159 were negroes; (1905) 6509; (1910) 5032 . Lake City is served by the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air Line and the Georgia Southern & Florida railways . There are ten small lakes in the neighbourhood, and the town is a winter and health resort . It is the seat of Columbia College (Baptist, 1907); the Florida Agricultural College was opened here in 1883, became the university of Florida in 1903, and in 1905 was abolished by the Buckman Law . Vegetables and fruits grown for the northern markets, sea-island cotton and tobacco are important products of the surrounding country, and Lake City has some trade in cotton, lumber, phosphates and turpentine . The town was first settled about 1826 as Alligator; it was incorporated in 1854; adopted the present name in 1859; and in r9o1, with an enlarged area, was re-incorporated .