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10 unusual facts about Lake City


Allen Hiram Curtiss

The Florida Agricultural Experiment Station (established in 1888 as a division of the Florida College of Agriculture at Lake City), employed Curtiss for a brief tenure and several collections at the University of Florida Herbarium are named for him.

Aubrey Daniels

Aubrey C. Daniels, Ph.D. (born May 17, 1935 in Lake City, South Carolina, USA) is a clinical psychologist by training, but is sometimes referred to as “the father of performance management”, as he was one of the first to make extensive use of the science of behavior analysis in business.

Enos T. Hotchkiss

Enos T. Hotchkiss (March 29, 1832 - January 20, 1900) was credited as being the founder of both Lake City, Colorado and Hotchkiss, Colorado.

Gregor Ziemer

After fleeing Germany, Ziemer returned to his wife Edna's hometown of Lake City, Minnesota.

Lake City, Modoc County, California

The city is mentioned in the 1995 travel novel California Fault by author Thurston Clarke, when he referenced the area of Modoc County by his great-grandfather's travels in the 1850s in the Fandango Pass.

Lake City, Tennessee

In 2013, a business group proposed to establish a theme park in the city if the city name was changed to "Rocky Top" to take advantage of the song of that name.

Simon B. Conover

He was appointed acting assistant surgeon in 1866, and was assigned to Lake City, Florida.

Victory Heights, Seattle

Victory Heights is a neighborhood in the Lake City district of Seattle, Washington.

Washington State Route 513

SR 513 was created during the 1964 state highway renumbering as the successor to Secondary State Highway 1J (SSH 1J), itself created in 1937 and traveling from Downtown Seattle to Lake City.

William Harris Ashmead

The following year, he became entomologist at the Agricultural Research station of Lake City.


Gus C. Henderson

Born near Lake City in Columbia County, Florida, Gus C. Henderson would remain in his home town for twenty years.

Kendyll Pope

A native of Fort White, Florida, Pope attended Columbia High School, where he developed into one of the best defensive players in the state of Florida.

Tennessee State Route 116

This section of the highway parallels Walden Ridge to the immediate southeast, and a former spur of the Norfolk Southern Railway (now closed), and passes through Briceville, Fraterville which was the site of a 1902 mine explosion, "The Wye" near the former mining camp of Beech Grove, and finally through a gap in Walden Ridge to enter Lake City.