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Dunnellon was founded in 1887, [1] two years before the 1889 discovery of phosphate in the area. It was officially incorporated as a city in 1891. [ 2 ] The subsequent mining boom, the first of its kind in Florida, lasted until the early 1910s.
The springs were the first tourist attraction in Florida. [3] In the 1860s, Samuel O. Howse bought the 242 acres [3] surrounding the headwaters of the Silver River.Several years after the American Civil War, the springs began to attract tourists from the North via steamboats up the Silver River. [4]
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