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We would like to provide the residents of  Winter Haven  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Winter Haven Home page. The Winter Haven Home page provides as much information as possible on Winter Haven. Knowing Winter Haven’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Winter Haven’s Home page, you will also find Winter Haven’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Winter Haven has a population of 240768. 47.3% of Winter Haven’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.7 are female. 42.9% of Winter Haven is married and 60.6% own their own home. The Average Home price is $154,898, and the average rent is $946. Household median income in Winter Haven is $48,560, and the individual median income is $25,885. Winter Haven’s Ethnic is the following: White(64.5%), Black(23.8%), Hispanic(19.5%), Multiple(5.6%), Other(3.5%), Asian(2.4%), Native(0.2%), Pacific(0.1%).


Pughsville was a neighborhood of Winter Haven where African Americans built a community after the Civil War. A historical marker on Highway 17 at Avenue O commemorates the community. According to the marker, Pughsville was one of Winter Haven's earliest neighborhoods and was settled by African Americans who cleared the land in the southwest section of the city. Pughsville was named for an early black pioneer, Reverend Charles Pugh, who was a founder of one of Zion Hill Missionary Baptist Church.


Pughsville was also home to Bethel A.M.E., St. Paul Holiness, and Church of Christ. The community was most active from the 1900s until the 1950s and had an African-American school, social halls, small grocery stores, and restaurants where some residents worked. Others worked in the citrus industry or in state or federal jobs.


Pughsville produced Winter Haven's first African-American commissioner and mayor Lemuel Geathers, medical doctor, fire fighter and postal worker. The community declined in the late 1970s as larger commercial establishments began arriving in the area.


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