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Center Hill is a tiny city in Sumter County, Florida, incorporated in 1925.

Center Hill's population was just 846 at the 2020 census, making it one of the smallest incorporated cities in Sumter County.

Long before the city existed, Black Seminoles and fugitive slaves had settled the site by 1800 in a community called Abraham's Old Town.

In 1813 the Black Seminoles founded the town of Peliklakaha on the site, and Seminole chief Micanopy made it his residence.

The modern town was settled by the Mobley and Beville families in the late 1830s and early 1840s, and took the name Center Hill for its spot on a hill near the center of the county.

In the early 1900s Center Hill was billed as the 'String Bean Capital of the World,' shipping nearly 400 railroad cars of green beans in a single year.

The bean boom collapsed in the mid-1930s as the water table fell after the Jumper Creek Drainage District drained some 24,600 acres of wetlands, ending the era that had made the town boom.

Center Hill has only a few hundred households - the Census Bureau's American Community Survey counted 377 households in 2022.

Although it feels worlds away, Center Hill sits in the same county as The Villages, the vast retirement community that has made Sumter County one of Central Florida's fastest-growing counties.