Orange Heights, Florida

Orange Heights was founded on the Peninsula Railroad (now CSX Transportation's Wildwood Subdivision), which ran from Waldo to Ocala.

In 1891 Orange Heights had a population of more than 300 people. It had a school, a church, a hotel, three general stores, a cotton gin, a blacksmith, and a sawmill.^[2]

In 2010–2011 an overpass was constructed carrying State Road 26 over U.S. 301 and the CSX tracks at Orange Heights.^[3]

29°43′11″N 82°08′21″W / 29.71972°N 82.13917°W / 29.71972; -82.13917

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