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- ↑ "Mounds Reveal A Lost Trade Town. Turpentine Boom Created Town of Nalaca" . Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ↑ "Ghost Towns of Highlands County, Florida" . Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ↑ "Our History - Consolidated Tomoka Land Company" . Retrieved 2019-06-15.
- ↑ Ziel, Debora L. (2013). "Which Way to the Jook Joint?: Historical Archaeology of a Polk County, Florida Turpentine Camp". University of Central Florida. Retrieved 2017-12-28.
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