Pasco County Courthouse
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sfwife
N 28° 21.871 W 082° 11.320
17R E 383518 N 3138156
Historic Courthouse in west central Florida
Waymark Code: WM2R1D
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 12/10/2007
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Pasco County was created from parts of Hernando County in 1887. The name honors Florida’s United States Senator, Samuel Pasco. A temporary county seat was located in Dade City (originally Hatton),renamed for Major Francis Dade, whose troops had been massacred not far from here by Seminoles in 1836. A referendum was held in 1889 to select a permanent site, at which time Dade City prevailed over Gladstone (San Antonio), Pasadena, and several other locations.
The courthouse was designed by famous courthouse architect, Edward Columbus Hosford of Eastman, Georgia. (Mr. Hosford designed many other county courthouses for Florida, Georgia and Texas.)
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