Lorraine, Florida

Lorraine, Florida
Unincorporated area
Lorraine
Lorraine Location within Manatee County, Florida
Coordinates: 27°25′55″N 82°23′43″W / 27.43194°N 82.39528°W / 27.43194; -82.39528Coordinates: 27°25′55″N 82°23′43″W / 27.43194°N 82.39528°W / 27.43194; -82.39528[1]
Country	United States
State	Florida
County	Manatee
Elevation	39 ft (12 m)
Time zone	UTC−05:00 (EST)
• Summer (DST)	UTC−04:00 (EDT)
Zip code	34202, 34211
Area code(s)	941
FIPS code	12-41310
GNIS feature ID	294840[1]

Lorraine is an unincorporated area located in Manatee County, Florida.

History[]

The small company town of Lorraine was established by the Lorraine Turpentine Company. Both were created in 1915 by Tampa financier G.A. McLeod. The company became a public corporation in 1916. Both company and town were likely named after the region of Lorraine in France, which dominated national news during this time. A nearby community where the Lorraine Turpentine Company also operated is similarly named Alsace. In addition to being home to a turpentine mill, Lorraine was also the location of a saw mill owned by Schroeder Mill & Timber Company.^[2]

By the mid-1920s, the turpentine industry in the area began drying up and The Lorraine Turpentine Company lost the land in a government seizure due to their indebtedness. A significant area of Lorraine remained in the ownership of Schroeder Mill & Timber Company. In 1926, Lorraine Farms, a community of multi-acre farmable plots was platted at Lorraine.^[3]

Since the 1990s, Lorraine has been considered part of greater Lakewood Ranch, a planned community located on former Shroeder-Manatee Ranch land.

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