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Frostproof, FL - History
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Welcome to the Frostproof Home page. The Frostproof Home page provides as much information as possible on Frostproof. Knowing Frostproof’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Frostproof’s Home page, you will also find Frostproof’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Frostproof has a population of 3217. 47.6% of Frostproof’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.4 are female. 45.3% of Frostproof is married and 74.8% own their own home. The Average Home price is $93,896, and the average rent is $639. Household median income in Frostproof is $43,730, and the individual median income is $22,116. Frostproof’s Ethnic is the following: White(88.1%), Hispanic(17.6%), Multiple(3.9%), Other(3.8%), Black(3.6%), Asian(0.6%).
The settlement in the area now known as Frostproof was established in 1850. This settlement, like many in central Florida at the time, was set up as a fort and was called Fort Clinch. The fort was named after the local Lake Clinch which was, in turn, named after the Seminole War commander Duncan Lamont Clinch.This settlement was abandoned only months later.
By the 1880s, Frostproof began to see its first permanent settlers as homesteaders were attracted to the abundant hunting in the area which included much deer and turkey, as well as ample fishing.The name was a marketing ploy to convince potential landowners that the town has never had, and never would have, a frost that could destroy the large citrus-driven economy.
However, only a couple of years later, a frost during The Great Freeze of 1895 killed most of the citrus in Frostproof. Prior to being named Frostproof, the town was named Keystone City. However, after being confused regularly with Keystone Heights, a city in North Florida, Frostproof was coined.W.H.
Overocker applied for the first post office here in 1892, with a name of Keystone City. Postal authorities disallowed it because there was already a Keystone Heights in Florida. Joseph Washington Carson suggested Frostproof as a substitute, but Overocker instead chose Lakemont. Carson's choice of Frostproof was based on the town's relatively minor damage from the freeze in December 1894 which ruined much of the state's citrus crop.Carson volunteered to deliver the application to the post office in Fort Meade, and on the way changed the name from Lakemont to Frostproof, which was approved.
Overocker, to his surprise, was appointed the postmaster of Frostproof. The early post office was located on the corner of Wall Street and Carson Avenue.After many delays, Frostproof first received rail service in 1912.
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