Pasco Beverage Co. history

Abbott was platted and recorded in Plat Book Number 1 on page 5, April 17, 1888.

Abbott became a voting precinct before 1893; candidates for county office considered the Abbott vote important and much campaigning went on in the area.

However, Temple had developed and sold much of the land before 1895, and a cloud hung over some titles for years.

Simon Geiger started to school in Abbott in 1899 in a one-room school.

Simon received his first “store haircut” there on a bright Saturday in 1910.

The park was started in August, 1911, and has been kept up in the best of shape.

13, 1912, Simon began work with the Seaboard Airline railroad and he retired several years ago.

Coming to Pasco County from Lawrenceville, Ill., in 1913, Aunt Dora first settled in Dade City and lived in the old Lanier house.

What is now the First Baptist Church on Fifth Avenue was begun as the Oak Dale Baptist Church in a brush arbor west of here in the 1870s. It was there on March 8, 1914, that Simon joined.

The city was incorporated in 1915.

The Zephyrhills Colony Company has many earmarks of the land developers of the boom era of the 1920’s in Florida.

Chickens joined the other two C’s, cattle and citrus as a cash crop starting in about 1925.

About 1927, the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad was built and the brick depot.

Jeffries, according to a 1928 newspaper artice.

A graduate from Zephyrhills High in 1930, Owen said that their sixtieth reunion four years ago was attended 100%. He’s looking forward to the sixty-fifth next year “to see what they all look like.”

But 1936 did bring U. S. 301 through Zephyrhills, and it’s been a major link between East Pasco and Tampa ever since.

He operated this until the World War II. In about 1943 material was not available so he closed it and dismantled the building and sold all the material which was sheet metal and wood frame.

After being discharged from the Army, he returned to Plant City to assist his father, Leonard Edgeman, in the operation of a freight line prior to coming to Zephyrhills and joining the police department in 1953.

In 1961, Don Robinson took advantage of Zephyrhills’ one important natural resource: good-tasting water.

The freezes in 1982 and ’83 damaged the citrus industry in Zephyrhills and made it even more reliant on a recreation and service economy.