Brooksville
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county seat of Hernando County, Florida, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Florida
- County
- Hernando
- Settled melendez and pierceville settlem
- 1840–1845
- Incorporated city of brooksville
- October 13, 1880
- Type
- Council–Manager
- Total
- 11.28 sq mi (29.22 km )
- Land
- 11.19 sq mi (28.97 km )
- Water
- 0.097 sq mi (0.25 km )
- Elevation
- 128 ft (39 m)
- Density
- 794.9/sq mi (306.91/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 34601-34605, 34613-34614
- Fips code
- 12-08800
- Website
- www .cityofbrooksville .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Official name
- Brooksville
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Hernando County
- Population
- 8890
- Area
- 28.306357
- Elevation
- 59
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Capital of
- Hernando County
- Official website
- www.cityofbrooksville.us
- Image
- Hernando Cty Crths Brooksville05.jpg
- Households
- 3997
- Dialing code
- 352
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- Commons category
- Brooksville, Florida
- topic's main category
- Category:Brooksville, Florida
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Brooksville, Florida
- inception
- 1856-01-01
- P8168
- Char
- water as percent of area
- 0.8961
- per capita income
- 24807
- postal code
- 34614
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Encyclopedic overview
Brooksville is a city in and the county seat of Hernando County, Florida, United States. As of the 2020 census, Brooksville had a population of 8,890. Brooksville is home to historic buildings and residences, including the homes of former Florida governor William Sherman Jennings and football player Jerome Brown.
Brooksville, established in 1856 by the merger of the towns of Melendez and Pierceville, took its name to honor Preston Brooks, a pro-slavery congressman from South Carolina, who caned and seriously injured Charles Sumner, an abolitionist and United States senator from Massachusetts.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Brooksville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.