Sisco, Florida

Sisco is a ghost town located in Putnam County, Florida, United States.[1] It lies off U.S. Route 17 approximately 10 miles north of Crescent City.

Sisco
Ghost town
Sisco
Location within the state of Florida
Coordinates: 29°31′14″N 81°37′31″W
CountryUnited States
StateFlorida
CountyPutnam

Sisco was settled by Henry W. and Claire Sisco along the Palatka & Indian River extension of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway. In 1885, Mr. Sisco made application to the department at Washington for a post office to be located at the new town of "Sisco", his petition having forty-one signatures.[2]

For the next forty years or so, the population of the town ranged from 150 people to 60 people and, at times, had a post office, hotel, general store and a steam sawmill.[3]

During the 1920s, there was a steamboat stop along Dunns Creek that provided wood and water to the ships loaded with citrus and it was used also as a post office for the towns of Pomona and Cisco.[4]

Sisco was one of the many towns mostly abandoned following the Great Freeze.[5]

Notes
  1. "Sisco, Florida". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  2. https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn89070049/1885-08-21/ed-1/?sp=4&st=image&r=0.184,0.032,0.345,0.179,0 Palatka Daily News, August 21, 1885
  3. http://www.dep.state.fl.us/parks/planning/parkplans/DunnsCreekStatePark.pdf page 20
  4. "Florida State Parks 75th Anniversary 1935 - 2010". www.floridastateparks.org. Archived from the original on March 26, 2010.
  5. Exploring Putnam County’s past: A look into local ‘ghost towns’


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