Starting our 28th year takes us back 100 years to 1925. 1925 may be the most prosperous year in Brooksville history. The economy was at an all-time high, new towns were springing up around Brooksville, homes were being built, many businesses boomed including citrus and the rock mines, and major roads were being paved making 1925 the high-water mark of the roaring 20s in general and throughout the nation as well. By 1928, the Florida boom had died, a precursor to the stock ma

This issue covers how the train changed Brooksville with a pictorial history of train travel in Brooksville and how it spurred our growth tremendously, not only here, but across the nation. We all know how it gave birth to cattle drives from Texas up or Kansas with the newly formed railroad lines connecting directly to Chicago and New York. The same thing in Florida, enabling the citrus and tourist industry to flourish and later on for the rock mines as well. Train travel was