Editing Hernando County, Florida (section)

===Reconstruction=== 
Despite many citizens', including new immigrants, attempts at making Hernando an open and welcoming place, the county became one of the many Florida plantation counties that was a hotbed for [[Ku Klux Klan]] activity.{{sfn|Landers|2010|p=16}} Arthur St. Clair, a minister, was lynched in Hernando County, Florida, in 1877 for performing the wedding of a black man and white woman.<ref>{{Cite news|last=Cotter|first=Holland|date=June 1, 2018|title=A Memorial to the Lingering Horror of Lynching|language=en-US|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/arts/design/national-memorial-for-peace-and-justice-montgomery-alabama.html|access-date=June 9, 2021|issn=0362-4331}}</ref>

The county courthouse was destroyed by a fire on September 29, 1877. On June 2, 1887, the [[Florida state legislature|Florida State Legislature]] divided Hernando County into three independent counties: [[Pasco County, Florida|Pasco County]] to the south, [[Citrus County, Florida|Citrus County]] to the north, and Hernando County in the middle. Since then, Hernando County's borders have remained unchanged.