Editing San Antonio, Florida (section)

==History==
[[File:San Antonio FL Church01.jpg|thumb|left|St. Anthony of Padua Catholic Church, est. 1883]]
San Antonio was founded by [[Edmund Francis Dunne|Edmund F. Dunne]], an [[Irish American]] who had previously served as chief justice of the [[Arizona Territory]].<ref name="fivay.org">{{Cite web|url=http://www.fivay.org/san_antonio.html|title = History of San Antonio, Pasco County, Florida}}</ref> In June 1881,<ref name="Davis 1939">Davis, T. Frederick (January 1939). ''The Disston Land Purchase''. The Florida Historical Quarterly. Gainesville, Florida: Florida Historical Society (electronically: Florida Center for Library Automation). p. 207.</ref> Dunne was a legal counsel involved in the [[Hamilton Disston|Disston Land Purchase]], and as his commission, received 100,000 choice acres (400 km2) of land out of the 4,000,000-acre (16,000&nbsp;km{{sup|2}}) purchase. The following year on February 15, 1882, while surveying the Disston Purchase with his cousin, Captain Hugh Dunne, he came upon a previously unsurveyed lake with crystal-clear water. Seeing in a prayer book that it was the feast day of [[Faustinus and Jovita|St. Jovita]], he named the lake after the early [[Christian martyr]].<ref name="History of San Antonio, Pasco Count"/><ref name=SanAntoInco/><ref name=SAFHis/><ref name="Horgan, James J. 1990">Horgan, James J. (1990). ''Pioneer College: The Centennial History of Saint Leo College, Saint Leo Abbey, and Holy Name Priory''. Saint Leo, FL. Saint Leo College Press. {{ISBN|978-0-945759-01-0}}</ref>

Judge Dunne selected the city's location on Lake Jovita's western shore and began settling it in earnest. He intended for the city to be the center of a Roman Catholic colony in Florida, then a heavily Protestant state. Dunne planned several other villages for the surrounding area including St. Thomas, Villa Maria, Carmel and San Felipe, but only the rural community of [[St. Joseph, Pasco County, Florida|St. Joseph]] survives today.<ref name="History of San Antonio, Pasco Count"/><ref name=SanAntoInco/><ref name=SAFHis/>

In San Antonio's early years, Dunne only permitted practicing Roman Catholics to settle in the colony. The earliest settlers were mostly of [[Irish people|Irish]] descent, but San Antonio's numbers were soon bolstered by [[Germans|German]] immigrants, who came to form about half the city's population by the mid-1880s. There was also a [[French people|French]] community and, in later years, a minority of [[Florida cracker]] [[Protestantism|Protestants]]. As late as the 1900s, African Americans were not permitted to settle in San Antonio; in 1902, a [[Black American]] man was [[lynching in the United States|lynched]] in San Antonio for the alleged rape of a white woman.<ref name="History of San Antonio, Pasco Count">{{cite web | url=https://www.fivay.org/san_antonio.html | title=History of San Antonio, Pasco County, Florida }}</ref><ref name=SanAntoInco/><ref name=SAFHis/>

The "'''''Town of San Antonio'''''" was officially incorporated as a municipality on August 7, 1891.<ref name="History of San Antonio, Pasco Count"/><ref name=SanAntoInco/><ref name=SAFHis/><ref name=SanAntInc>{{Cite web|title=FLORIDA CITIES BY INCORPORATION YEAR|url=http://www.floridaleagueofcities.com/docs/default-source/CMRI/2016citiesbyincorporationb682b2c41a9e6c4e8be5ff0000e8da5f.pdf?sfvrsn=0|website=Florida League of Cities}}</ref>

In June 1889, the [[Benedictines]] established the monastery of [[Saint Leo Abbey|St. Leo]] and [[Saint Leo University|St. Leo College]] on Dunne's former homestead and farm land, later incorporating the area as part of a separate town, [[St. Leo, Florida]]. Earlier that year five Benedictine sisters established [[Holy Name Monastery|Holy Name Convent]] in the center of San Antonio. The nuns had come to teach at two local schools (St. Anthony School and St. Joseph School), as well as to establish Holy Name Academy. The sisters had the convent and the academy physically moved by oxen to a 40-acre parcel in St. Leo overlooking the southwestern shore of Lake Jovita in 1911. The nuns remained at St. Anthony School until the end of the 2009–2010 academic year.<ref name="History of San Antonio, Pasco Count"/><ref name=SanAntoInco/><ref name=SAFHis/>

At the time of its founding San Antonio was located in the southern third of [[Hernando County]], as Pasco County was not created until June 1887. The [[Orange Belt Railway]] first began service to San Antonio in November 1887.<ref name="History of San Antonio, Pasco Count"/><ref name=SanAntoInco/><ref name=SAFHis>[http://www.sanantonioflorida.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=26 A short history of San Antonio] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150902033016/http://www.sanantonioflorida.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12&Itemid=26 |date=2015-09-02 }}</ref>

On June 2, 1926, the city officially changed its name to the "'''''City of Lake Jovita'''''" in an attempt to capitalize on the [[Florida Land Boom]]. The city also changed many of its street names, replacing explicitly Catholic names with secular ones. On May 23, 1931, the city changed its name back to the "'''City of San Antonio'''"; but the secularized street names remained.<ref name="History of San Antonio, Pasco Count"/><ref name=SanAntoInco/><ref name=SAFHis/><ref name="Horgan, James J. 1990"/><ref>{{cite news |last=Jeffares|first=Carol|title=Communities changed names to fit new times |date=April 30, 1988|newspaper=[[Tampa Tribune]]|url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/337700352/?terms=Barthle%2Bsettlement |page=2D|access-date=December 3, 2017}}</ref>