Unattended Death and Biohazard Cleanup in Crescent City, FL

Crescent City is a small city in Putnam County, Florida, whose motto is 'Life Between the Lakes,' because it sits between Crescent Lake to the east and Lake Stella to the west.

The area was first settled in 1852 as the Old Oliver Plantation, then platted as Crescent City in 1876; the city was incorporated in 1883 and formally incorporated as a city in 1885.

The town takes its name from Crescent Lake, which Charles R. Griffing's wife Jennie thought was shaped like a crescent after Griffing bought large acreage on the lake — then called Dunn's Lake — in 1876.

Civil rights leader A. Philip Randolph, founder of the Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters, was born in Crescent City in 1889, and the city's Randolph Street is named after him.

Crescent City had a population of 1,654 at the 2020 census, living in 669 households.

Crescent City has two listings on the National Register of Historic Places: the Hubbard House (also known as San Sui) and the Crescent City Historic District, with its largely intact row of 1880s-1900s commercial buildings on Summit Street.

Eagle's Nest Grove in Crescent City is the oldest continuous organic citrus grove in Florida.

The city fronts on Crescent Lake, a roughly 15,960-acre natural lake connected to the St. Johns River by Dunns Creek, and the town promotes itself as the 'Bass Capital of the World' for its largemouth bass fishing.

The Great Freeze of 1894 and 1895 destroyed most of Crescent City's citrus and badly damaged the early resort-and-farming economy.

Local public schools are run by the Putnam County School District: Middleton-Burney Elementary School sits within the city, while Crescent City High School serves grades 7-12 just north of the city limits.