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Hastings, FL - History
We would like to provide the residents of Hastings a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Hastings Home page. The Hastings Home page provides as much information as possible on Hastings. Knowing Hastings’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Hastings’s Home page, you will also find Hastings’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Hastings has a population of 1304. 53.1% of Hastings’s inhabitants are Male, and 46.9 are female. 17.1% of Hastings is married and 71.1% own their own home. The Average Home price is $159,736, and the average rent is $908. Household median income in Hastings is $43,882, and the individual median income is $28,264. Hastings’s Ethnic is the following: Black(52.1%), White(47.2%), Hispanic(4.1%), Other(0.7%).
Henry Morrison Flagler built tourist hotels at St. Augustine in the late 19th century, including the Ponce de León Hotel. He needed a local source of fresh vegetables for his guests, so he persuaded Thomas Horace Hastings, his cousin, to develop a farm. A small community evolved into a town, which was named for its founder in 1890.
Hastings is known as the "Potato Capital of Florida" with 21,000 acres (85 km2) of potato farms, but also produces cabbage, onions, eggplant and ornamental horticulture. Hastings in 1910 was thriving town that was a stop on the Florida East Coast Railway. The population of approximately 1,200 supported several general stores, a bakery, drug stores, meat markets, an ice plant and cold storage.
In addition to farming, two companies manufactured barrels and a grist mill ground grain. There was a bank and a hotel, three doctors and a dentist. The town had water and sewer utilities, telephone and telegraph service. The local public school was good. Today the former FEC line is part of the Palatka-to-St.
Augustine State Trail, and a trailhead can be found in the community within the Cora C. Harrison Preserve.On November 7, 2017, the voters of Hastings elected to dissolve the city with an 82% majority vote. St. Johns County officially took control of the area on March 1, 2018.The United States Census Bureau designated Hastings as a census-designated place in the 2020 census.
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