Seville, Florida

Seville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Volusia County, Florida, United States, founded in 1882. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 614.^[1]

History

William Kemble Lente, a vice president of the Jacksonville, Tampa and Key West Railway, founded the town of Seville in 1882 along the railroad right of way. Taking advantage of the location, he set about to build a community. He founded the Bank of Seville and built a large brick residence for himself. Teaming up with some northern investors, they started work on a grand hotel. Next the group built a complex water system costing $60,000. The relationship between Lente and his backers became strained and then bitter, and Lent took his own life at his Seville home in 1889. Today with limited commercial development and a largely rural/agricultural base, Seville is a quiet community just north of Pierson along U.S. Route 17.

References

↑ "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Seville CDP, Florida". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved February 17, 2016.

Municipalities and communities of Volusia County, Florida, United States

County seat: DeLand

Cities	Daytona Beach Daytona Beach Shores DeBary DeLand Deltona Edgewater Flagler Beach‡ Holly Hill Lake Helen New Smyrna Beach Oak Hill Orange City Ormond Beach Port Orange South Daytona

Towns	Pierson Ponce Inlet

CDPs	DeLeon Springs DeLand Southwest Glencoe North DeLand Ormond-by-the-Sea Samsula-Spruce Creek Seville West DeLand

Unincorporated communities	Alamana Allandale Barberville Bethune Beach Boden Cassadaga Cow Creek Creighton Eldora Emporia Enterprise Farmton Fort Florida Lemon Bluff Maytown Osteen Pennichaw Senyah Volusia Wilbur-by-the-Sea

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Coordinates: 29°19′01″N 81°29′33″W / 29.31694°N 81.49250°W / 29.31694; -81.49250

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