Brooksville, Florida Brooksville, Florida Official seal of Brooksville, Florida Location in Hernando County and the state of Florida Location in Hernando County and the state of Florida Brooksville, Florida is positioned in the US Brooksville, Florida - Brooksville, Florida Brooksville is a town/city in and the governmental center of county of Hernando County, Florida, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a populace of 7,719, up from 7,264 at the 2000 census.

Brooksville was titled in 1856 for Preston Brooks, a congressman from South Carolina known for his fervent support for standardized and his vicious beating of abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner. Brooksville is home to historic buildings and residences including the home of former Florida Governor William Sherman Jennings and football player Jerome Brown.

Brooksville is positioned in east-central Hernando County, 45 miles (72 km) north of Tampa and 51 miles (82 km) southwest of Ocala.

The geographic center of Florida is 12 miles (19 km) north-northwest of Brooksville.

According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Brooksville has a total region of 10.9 square miles (28.3 km2), of which 10.8 square miles (28.1 km2) are territory and 0.12 square miles (0.3 km2), or 0.90%, are water. Brooksville was once a primary citrus manufacturing region and was known as the "Home of the Tangerine". As of Enumeration 2010, there were 7,719 citizens , 3,504 homeholds, and 1,927 families residing in the city.

There is also a Native American outpost in a log cabin, and the Brooksville Railroad Depot Museum.

The first annual GET HEALTHY Brooksville Cycling Classic[when?] thriving cyclists from all over the state.

The Brooksville Business Alliance has sponsored the annual Brooksville Founders Week Celebration since 2006. There is a monthly live music performance, antique car show, and other affairs.

Fort De - Soto, established about 1840 to give protection to pioneer from Native Americans, was positioned at the northeastern edge of present-day Brooksville on Croom Road about one-half mile east of U.S.

As a result, in the early 1840s the populace shifted about 3 miles (5 km) to the south, where a settlement first formed by the Hope and Saxon families became known as "Pierceville".

On September 12, 1842, Seminole Indians attacked the Mc - Daniel party near the improve of Chocachatti, south of Brooksville, killing Charlotte (Mrs.

Both suburbs were situated in the region that would turn into Brooksville.

In 1856 the governmental center of county of Hernando County became the newly titled town of Brooksville.

The name was chosen to honor Preston Brooks, a congressman who had caned abolitionist Senator Charles Sumner nearly to death in 1856 on the floor of the Senate after Sumner gave an anti-slavery speech and disparaged Brooks' uncle, Senator Andrew Butler. The Pierceville postal service was retitled "Brooksville" in 1871.

Brooksville was settled by four families: the Howell family which settled the northern part of town; the Jon L.

A study of lynchings recorded in Hernando County in the late 19th and early 20th centuries revealed it had one of the highest per capita rates of violence against blacks in the United States. In Brooksville, the county seat, a several African-Americans were killed in the 1870s and 1920s.

After the murder, the investigation was stymied by small-town actions in defense of the white men accused in his killing. In 1882, there was a brief uprising by blacks, three of whom were killed and many of whom were wounded by whites. The 1920s saw a resurgence of Ku Klux Klan activeness and lynchings; as a result, many black inhabitants left the area. Brooksville instituted a zoning law segregating neighborhoods in 1948. Schools remained segregated until the late 1960s. Brooksville is a residentiary-commercial community.

There are a several undivided medical facilities in the region including Brooksville Regional Hospital, Oak Hill Community Hospital, and Spring Hill Regional Hospital.

A ground of Pasco Hernando State College is a mile north of the town/city limits.

The company section includes eleven shopping centers, and Brooksville Tampa Bay Regional Airport is 6 miles (10 km) south of the city.

Jerome Brown, defensive tackle for the Philadelphia Eagles, graduated from Brooksville's Hernando High School, where he was often seen in the off season running laps around the track.

In June 1988, he received praise for his calm demeanor as he helped disperse a group of Ku Klux Klan protesters in his hometown of Brooksville. Brown died on June 25, 1992, at the age of 27, after he lost control of his ZR1 Chevrolet Corvette at high speed and crashed into a utility pole in Brooksville.

Brown was buried in Brooksville.

In 2000, the Jerome Brown Community Center was opened in Brooksville in memory of Brown. Brooksville is served by THE Bus's Purple route. WWJB (1450 AM), airways broadcast based in Brooksville The Hernando Times, an copy of the Tampa Bay Times, is presented each Friday.

Tammy Alexander, murder victim known as "Caledonia Jane Doe", disappeared from Brooksville in 1979 Mike Hampton, Major League Baseball player for the Houston Astros; born in Brooksville Du - Juan Harris, former Central High (Brooksville) standout and current running back for the Green Bay Packers George Lowe, tv actor, interval up in Brooksville, worked for WWJB AM 1450, a small-town airways broadcast House of Representatives from Florida; born on a farm in Hernando County just south of Brooksville on July 29, 1849 Hughie Thomasson, guitarist, songwriter, lead vocalist and prestige of the Outlaws; lived in Brooksville a b c "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Brooksville city, Florida".

"Brooksville the home of the tangerine".

"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".

Brooksville Business Alliance - framers week slide show City of Brooksville, Florida.

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