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Why Tacony? That is a good question, Tacony Ranch is located in a county in Florida that does not support agriculture, Pinellas County. Yes, they play a good game on their web site claiming agriculture is an important part of Florida’s heritage but the truth is they don’t want it. The County Commissioners and their band of hoodlem agencies have worked to dismantle agriculture across Pinellas County. We have battled with them on issues from “You can’t have cattle fences on your property” to “Your ducks & geese are harming the wetlands”.

The “Florida Right to Farm Act” gives us these rights and protections, Pinellas County refuses to honor Florida laws concerning agriculture. One day we see a huge legal battle between the State and the County will explode.

Now back to our name, “Tacony Farm & Ranch”. During our being forced by the county to provide numerous wetland and boundary surveys to insure we had no farm buildings constructed in “Protected Wetlands” we discovered on some of the very old survey documents dug up by the survey company the area where our coops are located had the name “Tacony, FL”. Just to the North-East of the coops it had marked “Tacony Junction”. Our research showed a CSX railroad crossing there, the only place in the state where two RR tracks crossed at 90 degrees. There was a “Guard Shack” built there for a watchman. All are long gone now, removed in the early 1970’s.

Our research to the name “Tacony” lead us to Tacony, PA and a man named Hamilton Disston. The son of the Disston Tool Company that moved to Tacony, PA after Hamilton Disston inherited the company from is father. Hamilton had friends in the railroad and they built a lot if not all the railroads in Florida. Hamilton was commissioned to drain the swamps in Florida and provide usable lands while his friends built railroads.

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