In 1911, Ohio entrepreneur George E.
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The businessman purchased 9,000 acres on the shore of Lake Jackson, and his new town was designed and surveyed between October 1911 and April 1912.
After cofounding Sebring, Ohio, in 1898, he envisaged another eponymous town that would attract new residents to this largely unsettled area located 30 miles from the nearest railroad depot.
Sebring was drawn to the raw south-central Florida peninsular wilderness, known for bountiful fishing and game.
In 1911, Ohio entrepreneur George E