When you find this cache located on the Withlacoochee Trail
State, you will be standing at the very place that forever changed
Citrus County.
Originally, the rail line was to pass through this area, which
is now a ghosttown, Arlington. and continue along this barely
visible grade into what is now the Withlacoochee State forest, and
near the county seat, Mannfield.
After the forced relocation of the county seat to Tompkinsville,
now known as Inverness, and the discovery of Phosphate in Floral
City, the rail line was redirected to the path which is now the
Withlacoochee Trail State.
The grade was already done, rock was already poured, the rail
grade that was never a rail line is still visible in the
Withlacoochee State Forest as "Trail 9", to this day you can still
find granite along this trail.
The rerouting of the rail line caused towns along the planned
route to disappear. Some that still show on some maps include
Orleans and Landrum.
The Citrus County we know today would be quite a different place
had this change not occured, yet, to this day, this place remains
unmarked. Until NOW.
You can actually still see the grade on Google Maps, and follow
it right over top a Australian sounding restaurant, and into the
forest.