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Pasco County was made by the Florida Legislature on May 12, 1887. Prior to that, it had been the southern end of Hernando County, called the "claber end" by the early settlers. Pasco county was named in honor of U.S. Senator Samuel Pasco. A referendum held in 1889 named Dade City to be the county seat.

The Pasco County area was inhabited from prehistoric times and has a large number of archaeological sites proving that humans lived on the land as early as 9000 B.C.

The establishment of rail lines through the area made the production and shipment of oranges, tobacco, lumber, and naval stores highly profitable. This helped a substantial number of small towns developed through-out the county.  After "The Great Freeze", when most of the citrus industry was destroyed, tobacco became a principal crop for a period of about twenty years.  The pine lumber and turpentine industries developed more slowly and after 1923, centered around the Cummer Company in Lacoochee, a major employer in the area until the 1960's. Today, both pine and cypress are still being logged in Pasco County.

The principle communities are Dade City, Zephyrhills, New Port Richey, Hudson, Port Richey, and San Antonio. Dade City was known as Fort Dade until 1881 when the Fort Dade Postmaster's Commission was transferred to Fort Dade community a few miles west. Zephyrhills was established in 1911 as a retirement center for veterans of the Union Army. New Port Richey was founded in 1915 directly south of the older town of Port Richey, established by Captain Aaron Richey during the 1880's. San Antonio was developed as the center of the "Catholic Colony" by Judge Edwin Dunne in 1881. Holiday appeared as part of the development of the Pasco county's west coast during the 1960's.
 

In the era of the Second World War, the development of Pasco Packing Company (now Lykes-Pasco) and later of Evens Packing Company in Dade City gave the county two of the largest citrus packing plants in the world. The procedure for making orange juice concentrate was, to a large degree, developed at Pasco Packing Company.

The coastal portion of the county was largely undeveloped until the second half of the twentieth century when it became favored as a retirement area. In recent years, huge residential developments have appeared around U.S. Highway 19, causing the county's population center to shift to the west coast.

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