Sisco,_Florida
Sisco, Florida
Ghost town in Florida, United States
Sisco is a ghost town located in Putnam County, Florida, United States.[1] It lies off U.S. Route 17 approximately 10 miles north of Crescent City.
Sisco was settled by Henry W. and Claire Sisco along the Palatka & Indian River extension of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway. In 1885, Mr. Sisco made application to the department at Washington for a post office to be located at the new town of "Sisco", his petition having forty-one signatures.[2]
For the next forty years or so, the population of the town ranged from 150 people to 60 people and, at times, had a post office, hotel, general store and a steam sawmill.[3]
During the 1920s, there was a steamboat stop along Dunns Creek that provided wood and water to the ships loaded with citrus and it was used also as a post office for the towns of Pomona and Cisco.[4]
Sisco was one of the many towns mostly abandoned following the Great Freeze.[5]