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but it was the expansive sand hills that turned his attention to the development of the 1,320-acre property near the quaint little town of Lecanto.
The Black Diamond Ranch was first settled by John Newell, an Ohio landowner, in the early 1930s, and in the 1940s, the property was purchased by John Taylor, Jr., a citrus magnate from Largo, Florida. Impressed by |
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the natural attributes of the land, Taylor named it Black Diamond Ranch after a premium grapefruit of the same name. Enter Stan Olsen in 1984, who after a thorough search of Citrus County, bought the property.
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