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Lake City, Florida: A Sesquicentennial Tribute (2009) H. Morris Williams, Dr. Kevin M. McCarthy
Chapter Eleven: 1910 - 1919
The population of Lake City in 1910 was five thousand, which
made it the sixth largest city in Florida. The second decade of the 20th
century would be a difficult one for Lake City and for towns/cities
around the United States as young men went off to fight in World War
I, some of them never to return or to return gravely injured. The U.S.
Public Service Hospital Number 63 in Lake City would treat growing
numbers of injured veterans and become one of the major employers
in the city and county.
The city had an increasing number of businesses, two news-
papers (Citizen-Reporter and Florida Index), good connections with
railroads (Seaboard Air Line Railroad, Plant System of lines), a thriv-
ing agriculture base, but a declining phosphate industry.
One of the early 20th-century businesses out of Lake City was
the White Springs Ice Company owned by Henry Douglass.
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