When Was Zephyrhills Founded?

Zephyrhills is a city in Pasco County, Florida, United States. The population was estimated at 13,288 in the 2010 census. It is a suburb of the Tampa Bay Metropolitan Statistical Area. Zephyrhills is also known as the headquarters of the Zephyrhills bottled water company and is a member of Tree City USA.

When was Zephyrhills Water founded?

In 1964, long before the bottled water industry became a $12 billion business, a man named Don Robinson began bottling local water as the Zephyrhills Water Co. In 1987, the Perrier group bought out his 50-person company and turned its attention to Crystal Springs, a few miles southeast of the city.

Who founded Zephyrhills?

In 1909, Captain Howard B. Jeffries, a Civil War Union veteran from Pennsylvania, purchased 35,000 acres and created the Zephyrhills Colony Company with a plan to create a community for Civil War veterans. In 1910 the town voted to change its name to Zephyrhills; it was incorporated in 1914.

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