Editing Yankeetown, Florida (section)

==History==
Yankeetown was founded in 1923 by the [[Indiana]] politician and lawyer [[Armanis F. Knotts]], who moved to the area because of his great love for hunting.<ref name=YankSett>{{cite news |title= A.F. Knotts Library Dedicated|author= Jack Nast|newspaper= Ocala Star-Banner|date= February 26, 1975|url= https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=iswwAAAAIBAJ&sjid=hgUEAAAAIBAJ&pg=3544,4638587&dq=af-knotts&hl=en}}</ref> The settlement was originally an unincorporated village named "'''''Knotts Village'''''", after the founder's [[surname]]. However, stories have it that the present name comes from a local mail carrier, an "unreconstructed [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]]," who frequently and derisively directed visitors to the settlement that he called "that [[Yankee]] town."<ref name=Knottsname>{{cite news | url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=DUAxAAAAIBAJ&sjid=7QgEAAAAIBAJ&pg=6680%2C4335274 | title=What's in a name? | work=Ocala Star-Banner | date=May 10, 1999 | access-date=June 7, 2015 | author=Clark, Alisson | pages=3C}}</ref> The "'''Town of Yankeetown'''" was officially incorporated as a municipality in 1925.<ref name=YTInc>{{Cite web|title=FLORIDA CITIES BY INCORPORATION YEAR WITH INCORPORATION & DISSOLUTION INFO|url=https://www.flcities.com/docs/default-source/research-institute-reports/2020citiesbyincorporationwithinfo.pdf?sfvrsn=5009d6d5_0|website=www.flcities.com}}</ref><ref name=YankInc/> Yankeetown was initially to be the western end of a 1930s proposed, but never actualized, [[Cross Florida Barge Canal|Cross Florida Canal]].<ref>{{cite journal |last1=Flynt |first1=Wayne |title=The Cross-Florida Canal and the Politics of Interest-Group Democracy |journal=The Florida Historical Quarterly |date=2008 |volume=87 |issue=1 |page=3 |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/20700193 |access-date=May 9, 2022}}</ref>