LIVE OAK
Online Encyclopedia
Originally appearing in Volume
V16,
Page 801
of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
LIVE OAK
, a city and the county-seat of Suwannee county, Florida, U.S.A., 81 m. by rail W. of Jacksonville
.
Pop
.
(189o) 687; (1900) 1659; (1905) 7200; (1910) 3450
.
Live Oak is served
by the Atlantic Coast Line, the Seaboard Air Line, the Live Oak, Perry & Gulf and the Florida railways
.
There are extensive areas of pine lands in the vicinity, and large quantities of sea- island cotton are produced in the county
.
Lumber and 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- See also: - MILL
- MILL (O. Eng. mylen, later myln, or miln, adapted from the late Lat. molina, cf. Fr. moulin, from Lat. mola, a mill, molere, to grind; from the same root, mol, is derived " meal;" the word appears in other Teutonic languages, cf. Du. molen, Ger. muhle)
- MILL, JAMES (1773-1836)
- MILL, JOHN (c. 1645–1707)
- MILL, JOHN STUART (1806-1873)
mill here
.
Live Oak was first incorporated as a town in 1874, and in 1903 was chartered as a city
.
End of Article: LIVE OAK
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