Editing Lake Panasoffkee, Florida (section)

===Modern town===
According to Broward Mill, the past president of the Sumter County Historical Society, Lake Panasoffkee from the time that Sumter County was settled by whites until damaging freezes which wiped out the area's citrus industry in the 1880s and 1890s.<ref>{{cite book |author=United States Department of Agriculture |title=Soil Survey of Sumter County, Florida |publisher=[[Soil Conservation Service]] |year=1988 |location=[[Washington, D.C.]] |pages=2–3 |url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00025741/00001/|access-date=Apr 20, 2014|author-link=United States Department of Agriculture }}</ref>

Charles G. King, a [[Cleveland, Ohio|Cleveland]] entrepreneur, bought 2,500 acres (square kilometers) in Lake Panasoffkee and developed 737 acres (square kilometers) into Monarch Grove in 1908.  An oak hammock on the property was left undisturbed.  King and his employees used the sour oranges planted by the Seminoles for orange stock.  In 1926, the grove produced about 40,000 boxes of oranges.<ref name="Sumter Show"/>

Among the evidence was a group of house foundations and chimneys located in places where there were no known white settlers.  County officials later believed that the cemetery was a family cemetery as the newer marked graves listed the names of the few people known to be buried there.<ref>{{cite news |last=Mims |first=Amanda |title=Pondering grave issue |newspaper=Citrus County Chronicle |location=[[Crystal River, Florida]] |pages=A3 |date=Sep 27, 2009 |url=http://ufdc.ufl.edu/UF00028315/01783/3j |access-date=Apr 25, 2014}}</ref>