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Crystal River is a town/city in Citrus County, Florida, United States.
According to the U.S Enumeration estimates of 2012, the town/city had a populace of 3,055. The town/city was incorporated in 1903 and is the self professed "Home of the Manatee". Crystal River Preserve State Park is positioned nearby, and Crystal River Archaeological State Park is positioned in the city's northwest side.
Crystal River is at the heart of the Nature Coast of Florida.
Because of this discharge amount, the Crystal River Springs group is the second biggest springs group in Florida, the first being Spring Creek Springs in Wakulla County near Tallahassee.
Kings Bay is fed by a springs system; it is connected to the Gulf of Mexico by the Crystal River.
Crystal River is positioned northwest of the center of Citrus County at 28 54 02 N 82 35 37 W, on the northeast side of Kings Bay and the Crystal River, an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
State Road 44 leads east from Crystal River 17 miles (27 km) to Inverness, the Citrus County seat.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city of Crystal River has a total region of 6.8 square miles (17.7 km2), of which 6.2 square miles (16.0 km2) is territory and 0.66 square miles (1.7 km2) 9.35% is water. In the Pleistocene era, the territory on which Crystal River is positioned was vastly different from today.
Mound-building Native Americans (possibly Deptford culture) assembled a settlement along the Crystal River, which in the present day is the Crystal River Archaeological State Park. It was abandoned before to European colonization for unknown reasons. The obsolete Native American name for Crystal River was Weewahi Iaca. Twenty-two men filed for patents for territory in Crystal River. By the mid-1800s, families began to settle in the Crystal River area.
Mail was bringed by horse and buggy, and a stagecoach came from Ocala (Fort King) to Crystal River, stopping at the Stage Stand, which today is the Stage Stand Cemetery in Homosassa. While no territory battles were fought in the Crystal River region during the Civil War, there were many instances of skirmishes on the water directly off the coast of the Crystal and Homosassa rivers, as well as near Hickory Island in Yankeetown. By the time of the Civil War, Florida was an meaningful source and supplier of food and other goods such as beef, pork, fish, corn, sugar, cotton, naval stores and salt.
Following the Civil War, Crystal River grew.
A very early trade in the region was the turpentine business. Many of the barges amid the Civil War blockade had been carrying turpentine, likely from the turpentine still of William Turner, who resided in Red Level. Other early trade in the Crystal River region included cedar mills.
In 1882, James Williams moved his cedar foundry to Crystal River, and began operating on King's Bay. The foundry produced pencil boards, which were then shipped to Jersey City, New Jersey, by ship, and later on by train.
The Dixon Cedar Mill was one of the biggest industries in Crystal River, providing employment to many in the area, including women and African Americans. Crystal River had been part of Hernando County since its inception in 1843.
By the late 1800s, the region along the west side of the county was burgeoning rapidly, and the people of the region began to see a need for a new county with a governmental center of county that was easier to reach.
In 1887, Hernando County was divided into three parts: Pasco County, Hernando County, and Citrus County. The town of Mannfield was titled the temporary governmental center of county for two years.
Historians have claimed it to be "one of the richest phosphate deposits in the world." The phosphate trade would boom in Crystal River and Citrus County until 1914, when it could no longer be shipped due to World War I.
In 1888, the barns reached Crystal River.
Crystal River Mall opened north of the center of town in 1990.
Crystal River High School Residents are zoned to Crystal River Elementary School, Crystal River Middle School, and Crystal River High School. Mike Hampton, primary league baseball player, attended Crystal River High School a b "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Crystal River city, Florida".
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Media related to Crystal River (city), Florida at Wikimedia Commons City of Crystal River official website Crystal River News, historical journal for Crystal River openly accessible in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library Municipalities and communities of Citrus County, Florida, United States Crystal River Inverness Beverly Hills Black Diamond Citrus Hills Citrus Springs Floral City Hernando Homosassa Homosassa Springs Inverness Highlands North Inverness Highlands South Lecanto Pine Ridge Sugarmill Woods
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