Log carts were used to transport timber to the lumber mill in Seville, Florida. Photograph circa 1913. Seville was quite the "up and coming" community in the late 1800's. With the riverboat landing nearby on Lake George and the railroad depot, which for a while was the end of the line heading south, Seville had become a bustling and prosperous area. There were hotels, churches, stores, professional offices, sawmills etc. and a substantial water and sewage system in place. However, the yellow fever epidemic of 1888 took a very heavy toll on the tourist trade and then the extremely hard freezes of 1894-95 damaged the citrus industry so severely that many of the residents gave up and left the area. By the early 1900's the once thriving little town with so much promise had become a shell of its former self. In 1908 most of the water system was dug up and sold to the City of DeLand. It's still a beautiful rural area with large ferneries, landscaping plant nurseries and cattle farms, but now, "downtown Seville" simply consists of a country highway intersection with a blinking caution light, a Circle K gas station, a mom and pop grocery and bait store and the old schoolhouse, which is now a community meeting hall.