Sisco | |
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  Sisco Location within the state of Florida | |
| Coordinates: 29°31′14″N81°37′31″W / 29.52056°N 81.62528°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Florida |
| County | Putnam |
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]
