Freedtown[1][2] (Earnestville) was a former community in Pasco County, Florida, located just south of Buddy Lake. The 19th century town was founded sometime prior to December 1886. It was a "freedtown", meaning it was a town populated mostly by freedmen. The town gradually ceased to exist after the Great Freeze of 1894–1895, and none of its buildings or its cemetery remain today. The approximate location is said to have been somewhere west of Fort King Road along Bozeman Road.[3]
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- ↑ "Freedtown Historical Marker". History of Pasco County, Florida. Retrieved August 16, 2018.
- ↑ "Freedtown: The town that vanished in Pasco County". 7 February 2019.
- ↑ Cannon, Jeff (March 13, 2010). "History of the "Freedtown" Community & Cemetery". (pascocemeteries.org). Archived from the original on June 17, 2014. Retrieved November 29, 2013.
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