Live Oak, Florida Live Oak, Florida Suwannee County Courthouse, Old Post Office, Old Live Oak City Hall, Downtown Live Oak, ACL Freight Station Suwannee County Courthouse, Old Post Office, Old Live Oak City Hall, Downtown Live Oak, ACL Freight Station Location in Suwannee County and the state of Florida Location in Suwannee County and the state of Florida Live Oak is a town/city in Suwannee County, Florida, United States.
The town/city is the governmental center of county of Suwannee County and is positioned east of Tallahassee.
Highway 129 and Interstate 10 are primary highways running through Live Oak.
One other Florida county also has a improve titled Live Oak, which is positioned in Washington County.
The beginning of Live Oak dates back to shortly before the Civil War.
Established in 1858, Live Oak was positioned at a junction between two strategically meaningful stockyards s: one operating between Jacksonville and Tallahassee, and another running south from Dupont, Georgia.
A large live oak tree positioned off the stockyards s was a gathering and resting spot for many of the workers on the line, and gave the new cityscape its name.
Florida Railway engine #3 at the Seaboard yards in Live Oak about 1915.
In 1944, Willie James Howard, a 15 year old African American resident of Live Oak, was lynched for sending a Christmas card to a white girl.
The county is known as a world-class cave diving site for SCUBA enthusiasts, and underwater cave explorer Sheck Exley chose to live here in order to have close access to many of the springs.
The Twin Rivers State Forest is a 14,882-acre (60 km2) Florida State forest positioned in North Central Florida, near Live Oak. There were 2,623 homeholds out of which 30.5% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 39.5% were married couples living together, 22.0% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 33.8% were non-families.
28.4% of all homeholds were made up of individuals and 13.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.
Live Oak receives rain, on average, 84 days per year.
"Live Oak, Florida", See North Florida website Wikimedia Commons has media related to Live Oak, Florida.
Wikisource has the text of the 1911 Encyclop dia Britannica article Live Oak.
Live Oak Daily Democrat Historical journal for Live Oak, Florida fully and openly available in the Florida Digital Newspaper Library City of Live Oak City website Suwannee Democrat Current journal of record for Live Oak Municipalities and communities of Suwannee County, Florida, United States County seat: Live Oak Live Oak
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