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LIVE OAK

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 801 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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OAK  , a city and the county-seat of Suwannee county,
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Florida, U.S.A., 81 m. by
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rail W. of
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Jacksonville . Pop . (189o) 687; (1900) 1659; (1905) 7200; (1910) 3450 . Live Oak is served by the
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Atlantic Coast
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Line, the Seaboard Air Line, the Live Oak, Perry & Gulf and the Florida
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railways . There are extensive areas of pine lands in the vicinity, and large quantities of sea-island cotton are produced in the county .
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Lumber and
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naval stores are also important products . The first settlement on the site of the city was made in 1865 by John Parshley, of Massachusetts, who erected a large saw-mill here . Live Oak was first incorporated as a
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town in 1874, and in 1903 was chartered as a city .

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